We begin an exploration of the capacity of the stationary accretion shock instability (SASI) to generate magnetic fields by adding a weak, stationary, and radial (but bipolar) magnetic field to a spherically symmetric fluid configuration that models a stalled shock in the post-bounce supernova environment. Upon perturbation the SASI develops, and its lateral flows alternately advect the initial...

We present a detailed investigation of the dynamical behavior of emerging magnetic flux using 3dimensional MHD numerical simulation. A magnetic flux tube with a lefthanded twist, initially placed below the photosphere, emerges into the solar atmosphere. This leads to a dynamical expansion of emerging field lines as well as an injection of magnetic energy and magnetic helicity into the atmospher...

We present a new numerical code, PLUTO, for the solution of hypersonic flows in 1, 2 and 3 spatial dimensions and different systems of coordinates. The code provides a multi-physics, multi-algorithm modular environment particularly oriented towards the treatment of astrophysical flows in presence of discontinuities. Different hydrodynamic modules and algorithms may be independently selected to ...

Laboratory experiments demonstrate high-speed plasma flows from both footpoints of arched magnetic flux tubes, resulting in bulk plasma transport into the flux tube and persistent axial collimation even as the flux tube lengthens and kinks. The measured flows are in agreement with the predictions of hoop force and collimation models involving fundamental MHD forces. These forces are expected to...

Accurate subgrid-scale turbulence models are needed to perform realistic numerical magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the subsurface flows of the Sun. To perform large-eddy simulations (LES) of turbulent MHD flows, three unknown terms have to be modeled. As a first step, we propose to use a priori tests to measure the accuracy of various models proposed to predict the SGS term appearing i...

The propagation of MHD kink/sausage low frequency waves in the magnetotail with a finite normal Bz component is addressed. The general idea is to investigate how a finite Bz may affect the propagation of MHD eigenmodes in the plasma sheet. The standard MHD equations are linearized and solved numerically in a modified Harris sheet. Boundary conditions are chosen such that energy flows outward of...

We propose a new Harten-Lax-van Leer discontinuities (HLLD) approximate Riemann solver to improve the stability of shocks and accuracy low-speed flows in multidimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations. Stringent benchmark tests verify that is more robust against numerical shock instability accurate for low-speed, nearly incompressible than original solver, whereas additional computation...

Keywords: MHD flow control Nonlinear boundary control Active mixing enhancement Distributed parameter systems a b s t r a c t A nonlinear Lyapunov-based boundary feedback control law is proposed for mixing enhancement in a 2D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) channel flow, also known as Hartmann flow, which is electrically conducting, incompressible, and subject to an external transverse magnetic field...

We investigate magnetized solar-like stellar winds by means of self-consistent threedimensional (3D) magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) numerical simulations. We analyze winds with different magnetic field intensities and densities as to explore the dependence on the plasma-β parameter. By solving the fully ideal 3D MHD equations, we show that the plasma-β parameter is the crucial parameter in the conf...

In this paper, we report on numerical simulations of incompressible MagnetoHydroDdynamic flows by a two dimensional finite difference scheme associated to an appropriate projection method performed to characterize velocity-pressure formulations along the specified MHD duct by solving the set of differential equations of magnetohydrodynamics. In the present calculation, a working electrolytic so...