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In this paper, we investigate the decay properties of axially symmetric solutions to the steady incompressible magnetohydrodynamic equations in $\mathbb{R}^3$ with finite Dirichlet integral. We first derive the decay rates of general…

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We measure the decay rates of magnetic field modes in a turbulent flow of liquid sodium below the dynamo threshold.We observe that turbulent fluctuations induce energy transfers between modes with different symmetries (dipolar and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-11-04 Johann Herault , François Pétrélis , Stephan Fauve

Hydromagnetic dynamo theory provides the prevailing theoretical description for the origin of magnetic fields in the universe. Here we consider the problem of kinematic, small-scale dynamo action driven by a random, incompressible,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-03-10 Joanne Mason , Leonid Malyshkin , Stanislav Boldyrev , Fausto Cattaneo

The small-scale kinematic dynamo in a two-dimensional chaotic flow is studied. The analytic approach is developed in framework of the Kraichnan-Kazantsev model. It is shown that the growth of magnetic field $\bm{B}$ fluctuations stops at…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-03-30 Igor Kolokolov

An exact analytic solution is obtained for a uniformly expanding, neutral, infinitely conducting plasma sphere in an external dipole magnetic field. The electrodynamical aspects related to the radiation and transformation of energy were…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 H. B. Nersisyan , D. A. Osipyan

The study investigates the problem of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) free convection over a non-isothermal axisymmetric body under the action of transverse magnetic field. The body is embedded in a porous medium saturated with electrically…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-10-01 Shobha Bagai , Chandrashekhar Nishad

We consider the complete system of equations governing the motion of a general compressible, viscous, electrically and heat conductive fluid driven by non-conservative boundary conditions. We show the existence of a bounded absorbing set in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-14 Jan Brezina , Eduard Feireisl

We study the anisotropic linear Maxwell system on a bounded domain $\Omega$ with perfectly conducting boundary conditions. It is damped via a conductivity $\sigma$ which is strictly positive on a collar at the boundary. We prove that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Richard Nutt , Roland Schnaubelt

We consider an initial-boundary value problem for the one-dimensional equations of compressible isentropic viscous and non-resistive magnetohydrodynamic flows. The global well-posedness of strong solutions with general large data is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-15 Song Jiang , Jianwen Zhang

We present a new scenario for magnetic field amplification where an electrically conducting fluid is confined in a differentially rotating, spherical shell with thin aspect-ratio. When the angular momentum sufficiently decreases outwards,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-06-14 Florence Marcotte , Christophe Gissinger

When the vaccum is allowed, if the global existence and uniqueness of strong solutions to three dimensional incompressible inhomogeneous magnetohydrodynamic equations holds true or not has always been a challenging open problem, even for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Jitao Liu , Min Liu

We study the one-dimensional, longitudinally boost-invariant motion of an ideal fluid with infinite conductivity in the presence of a transverse magnetic field, i.e., in the ideal transverse magnetohydrodynamical limit. In an extension of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-04-27 Shi Pu , Victor Roy , Luciano Rezzolla , Dirk H. Rischke

The equilibrium of a resistive axisymmetric plasma with purely toroidal flow surrounded by a conductor is investigated within the framework of the nonlinear magnetohydrodynamic theory. It is proved that a) the poloidal current density…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 G. N. Throumoulopoulos

The effect of non periodic boundary conditions on decaying two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic turbulence is investigated. We consider a circular domain with no-slip boundary conditions for the velocity and where the normal component of the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Salah Neffaa , Wouter Bos , Kai Schneider

We consider inverse problems related to the velocity reconstruction in electrically conducting fluids from externally measured magnetic fields. The underlying theory is presented in the framework of the integral equation approach to…

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We prove the existence of strong time-periodic solutions and their asymptotic stability with the total energy of the perturbations decaying to zero at an exponential decay rate as $t \rightarrow \infty$ for a semilinear (nonlinearly…

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The three-dimensional compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) isentropic flow with zero magnetic diffusivity is studied. The vanishing magnetic diffusivity causes significant difficulties due to the loss of dissipation of the magnetic field.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-08-30 Xiaoli Li , Ning Su , Dehua Wang

The axisymmetric flow of a thin liquid film is considered for the problem of a vertically rotating disk that is partially immersed in a liquid bath. A model for the fully three-dimensional free-boundary problem of the rotating disk, that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-06-13 K. Afanasiev , A. Münch , B. Wagner

This paper resolves the global regularity problem for the three-dimensional incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations in the upper half-space with slip boundary conditions, in the presence of a background magnetic field. Motivated…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-14 Jincheng Gao , Lianyun Peng , Jiahong Wu , Zheng-an Yao

We study the general properties of axially symmetric dissipative configurations under the shear-free condition. The link between the magnetic part of the Weyl tensor and the vorticity, as well as the role of the dissipative fluxes, are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 L. Herrera , A. Di Prisco , J. Ospino