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Compressible ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is formulated in terms of the time evolution of potential vorticity and magnetic flux per unit mass using a compact Lie bracket notation. It is demonstrated that this simplifies analytic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-02-03 Wayne Arter

Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) describes the interaction between electrically conducting fluids and electromagnetic fields. We propose and analyze a symplectic, second-order algorithm for the evolutionary MHD system in Els\"asser variables. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Zhen Yao , Catalin Trenchea , Wenlong Pei

We present an exact analytic solution for decaying incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. Our solution reveals a dual formulation in terms of two interacting Euler ensembles--one for hydrodynamic and another for magnetic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-15 Alexander Migdal

We derive the exact law for three-dimensional (3D) homogeneous compressible isothermal Hall magnetohydrodynamics (CHMHD) turbulence, without the assumption of isotropy. The Hall current is shown to introduce new flux and sources terms that…

Space Physics · Physics 2018-01-31 Nahuel Andrés , Sébastien Galtier , Fouad Sahraoui

According to magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), the encounter of two collisional magnetized plasmas at high velocity gives rise to shock waves. Investigations conducted so far have found that the same conclusion still holds in the case of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Antoine Bret , Asaf Pe'er , Lorenzo Sironi , Aleksander Sadowski , Ramesh Narayan

The equilibrium of a cylindrical plasma with purely poloidal mass flow and cross section of arbitrary shape is investigated within the framework of the ideal MHD theory. For the system under consideration it is shown that only…

plasm-ph · Physics 2009-10-30 G. N. Throumoulopoulos , G. Pantis

Hall magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) properties near a two-dimensional (2D) X-type magnetic neutral line in the steady state are considered via heuristic and rigorous developments. Upon considering the steady-state as the asymptotic limit of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Bhimsen K. Shivamoggi

Classical Electrodynamics is not a consistent theory because of its field inadequate behaviour in the vicinity of their sources. Its problems with the electron equation of motion and with non-integrable singularity of the electron self…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Manoelito M. de Souza

A planar superfluid is considered and interpreted in terms of electromagnetism and gravity. It has previously been suggested that the superfluid flow can be regarded as analogous to an electromagnetic field and that a non-vanishing density…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-05-29 Emil Génetay Johansen

Self-similar, spherically symmetric cosmological models with a perfect fluid and a scalar field with an exponential potential are investigated. New variables are defined which lead to a compact state space, and dynamical systems methods are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Alan Coley , Martin Goliath

We derive an explicit manifestly covariant expression for the most general positive-definite and Lorentz-invariant inner product on the space of solutions of the Klein-Gordon equation. This expression involves a one-parameter family of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Mostafazadeh , F. Zamani

Generalised Hydrodynamics (GHD) describes the large-scale inhomogeneous dynamics of integrable (or close to integrable) systems in one dimension of space, based on a central equation for the fluid density or quasi-particle density: the GHD…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-04-25 Thibault Bonnemain , Vincent Caudrelier , Benjamin Doyon

We developed the spacetime-covariant Hamilton principle for barotropic flows of a perfect fluid in the external axial-vector potential conjugate to the helicity current. Such flows carry helicity, a chiral imbalance, controlled by the axial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-01 P. B. Wiegmann

We present a variational approach for relativistic ideal hydrodynamics interacting with electromagnetic fields. The momentum of fluid is introduced as the canonical conjugate variable of the position of a fluid element, which coincides with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 J. H. Gaspar Elsas , T. Koide , T. Kodama

We present a full two-fluid magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) description for a completely ionized hydrogen plasma, retaining the effects of the Hall current, electron pressure and electron inertia. According to this description, each plasma…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Nahuel Andrés , Carlos Gonzalez , Luis Martin , Pablo Dmitruk , Daniel Gómez

The equations of fluid motions are considered in the case of internal energy depending on mass density, volume entropy and their spatial derivatives. The model corresponds to domains with large density gradients in which the temperature is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-06-27 Henri Gouin

Following the previous work of Ferretti and Yang on the role of magnetic fields in the theory of conformal turbulence, we show that non-unitary minimal model solutions to 2-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) obtained by dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Omduth Coceal , Steven Thomas

In this paper we exclude the scenario of apparition of finite time singularity in the form of self-similar singularities in the ideal magnetohydrodynamic equations, assuming suitable integrability conditions on the vorticity and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Dongho Chae

A non-relativistic (Galilei-invariant) model of a perfect fluid coupled to a solenoidal field in arbitrary spatial dimension is considered. It contains an arbitrary parameter $\kappa$ and in the particular case of $\kappa=1$ it describes a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-19 Timofei Snegirev

We study stationary free boundary configurations of an ideal incompressible magnetohydrodynamic fluid possessing nested flux surfaces. In 2D simply connected domains, we prove that if the magnetic field and velocity field are never…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Peter Constantin , Theodore D. Drivas , Daniel Ginsberg