A Finite Element Method for MHD that Preserves Energy, Cross-Helicity, Magnetic Helicity, Incompressibility, and $\mathrm{div}B=0$

Abstract

We construct a structure-preserving finite element method and time-stepping scheme for inhomogeneous, incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). The method preserves energy, cross-helicity (when the fluid density is constant), magnetic helicity, mass, total squared density, pointwise incompressibility, and the constraint $\mathrm{div}B=0$ to machine precision, both at the spatially and temporally discrete levels.

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• A Conservative Finite Element Method for the Incompressible Euler Equations with Variable Density

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