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This report describes a new magnetohydrodynamic numerical model based on a hexagonal spherical geodesic grid. The model is designed to simulate astrophysical flows of partially ionized plasmas around a central compact object, such as a star…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 V. Florinski , X. Guo , D. S. Balsara , C. Meyer

Performing accurate large eddy simulations in compressible, turbulent magnetohydrodynamics is more challenging than in non-magnetized fluids due to the complex interplay between kinetic, magnetic and internal energy at different scales.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-10-23 Daniele Viganò , Ricard Aguilera-Miret , Carlos Palenzuela

We propose and analyze a class of finite element methods for the time-dependent incompressible magnetohydrodynamics system based on $H(\mathrm{curl})$-conforming discretizations for both the velocity and the magnetic field. This choice is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Lourenço Beirão da Veiga , Sergio Gómez , Ilaria Perugia , Enrico Zampa

Many problems at the forefront of theoretical astrophysics require the treatment of magnetized fluids in dynamical, strongly curved spacetimes. Such problems include the origin of gamma-ray bursts, magnetic braking of differential rotation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Matthew D. Duez , Yuk Tung Liu , Stuart L. Shapiro , Branson C. Stephens

The magnetohydrodynamic equations system for heavy fluid over an arbitrary surface in shallow water approximation is studied in the present paper. It is shown that simple wave solutions exist only for underlying surfaces that are slopes of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-27 Kirill Karelsky , Arakel Petrosyan , Stepan Tarasevich

We present a semi-Lagrangian characteristic mapping method for the incompressible Euler equations on a rotating sphere. The numerical method uses a spatio-temporal discretization of the inverse flow map generated by the Eulerian velocity as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-20 Seth Taylor , Jean-Christophe Nave

Using analytical calculations, we characterize the rotational behavior of a rigid spherical particle when subject to a net external torque in a continuous viscoelastic environment. On long time scales, the embedding medium can either…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-08-30 S. K. Richter , C. D. Deters , A. M. Menzel

The evolution of electromagnetic and thermodynamic fields in a non-ideal fluid are studied in the framework of ultrarelativistic transverse magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), which is essentially characterized by electric and magnetic fields being…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-12-20 M. Shokri , N. Sadooghi

We present an adaptive multiresolution method for the numerical simulation of ideal magnetohydrodynamics in two space dimensions. The discretization uses a finite volume scheme based on a Cartesian mesh and an explicit compact Rung-Kutta…

We present a new magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation code with the aim of providing accurate numerical solutions to astrophysical phenomena where discontinuities, shock waves, and turbulence are inherently important. The code implements…

In this paper, we present exact divergence-free spectral method for solving the incompressible and resistive magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) equations in two and three dimensions, as well as the efficient solution algorithm and unconditionally…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-20 Lechang Qin , Huiyuan Li , Zhiguo Yang

A weakly conducting liquid droplet immersed in another leaky dielectric liquid can exhibit rich dynamical behaviors under the effect of an applied electric field. Depending on material properties and field strength, the nonlinear coupling…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-28 Mohammadhossein Firouznia , Spencer H. Bryngelson , David Saintillan

A short distance expansion method (SDE) that is well known in the quantum field theory for analysis of turbulent behaviour of stochastic magnetic hydrodynamics of incompressible conductive fluid is applied. As a result is shown that in an…

chao-dyn · Physics 2016-08-31 Wolchenkov Dmitriy

We present a simulation code which can solve broad ranges of partial differential equations in a full sphere. The code expands tensorial variables in a spectral series of spin-weighted spherical harmonics in the angular directions and a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-26 Daniel Lecoanet , Geoffrey M. Vasil , Keaton J. Burns , Benjamin P. Brown , Jeffrey S. Oishi

We propose a numerical method to compute the inertial modes of a container with near-spherical geometry based on the fully spectral discretisation of the angular and radial directions using spherical harmonics and Gegenbauer polynomial…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-04-11 J. Rekier , A. Trinh , S. A. Triana , V. Dehant

Simulations of decaying magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence are performed with a fluid and a kinetic code. The initial condition is an ensemble of long-wavelength, counter-propagating, shear-Alfv\'{e}n waves, which interact and rapidly…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 K. D. Makwana , V. Zhdankin , H. Li , W. Daughton , F. Cattaneo

We utilize generalized moving least squares (GMLS) to develop meshfree techniques for discretizing hydrodynamic flow problems on manifolds. We use exterior calculus to formulate incompressible hydrodynamic equations in the Stokesian regime…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-28 B. J. Gross , N. Trask , P. Kuberry , P. J. Atzberger

In this paper, we study the parallel simulation of the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) dynamo in a rapidly rotating spherical shell with pseudo-vacuum magnetic boundary conditions. A second-order finite volume scheme based on a collocated…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Liang Yin , Chao Yang , Shi-Zhuang Ma , Ying Cai , Keke Zhang

This paper investigates stochastic solenoidal magnetohydrodynamics within the field-theoretic Martin-Siggia-Rose-De Dominicis-Janssen formalism, with a specific focus on the stability of the system when spatial mirror (parity) symmetry is…

We present a novel spectral solver for general relativistic magnetohydrodynamics on dynamical spacetimes. By combining a high order discontinuous spectral method on mapped Chebyshev Fourier grids, our scheme attains exponential convergence.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-26 Beibei Li