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We show that in 3-dimensional ideal magnetohydrodynamics there exist infinitely many bounded solutions that are compactly supported in space-time and have non-trivial velocity and magnetic fields. The solutions violate conservation of total…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Daniel Faraco , Sauli Lindberg , László Székelyhidi

We prove the existence of weak solutions to the 3D ideal MHD equations, of class $C^\alpha$ with $\alpha=1/200$, for which the total energy and the cross helicity (i.e., the so-called Els\"asser energies) are not conserved. The solutions do…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Alberto Enciso , Javier Peñafiel-Tomás , Daniel Peralta-Salas

We prove the non-uniqueness of weak solutions to 3D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD for short) equations. The constructed weak solutions do not conserve the magnetic helicity and can be close to any given smooth, divergence-free and mean-free…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-16 Yachun Li , Zirong Zeng , Deng Zhang

We construct weak solutions to the ideal magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) equations which have finite total energy, and whose magnetic helicity is not a constant function of time. In view of Taylor's conjecture, this proves that there exist…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-25 Rajendra Beekie , Tristan Buckmaster , Vlad Vicol

We prove Taylor's conjecture which says that in 3D MHD, magnetic helicity is conserved in the ideal limit in bounded, simply connected, perfectly conducting domains. When the domain is multiply connected, magnetic helicity depends on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-22 Daniel Faraco , Sauli Lindberg

This paper concerns the Cauchy problem of two-dimensional (2D) full compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations in the whole plane $\mathbb{R}^2$ with zero density at infinity. By spatial weighted energy method, we derive the local…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-18 Hong Chen , Xin Zhong

We revisit the issue of conservation of magnetic helicity and the Woltjer-Taylor relaxation theory in magnetohydrodynamics in the context of weak solutions. We introduce a relaxed system for the ideal MHD system, which decouples the effects…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-21 Daniel Faraco , Sauli Lindberg , László Székelyhidi

Solutions to the compressible Euler equations in all dimensions have been shown to develop finite-time singularities from smooth initial data such as shocks and cusps. There is an extraordinary list of results on this subject. When the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-10 Jiahong Wu , Fuyi Xu , Xiaoping Zhai

We prove the non-uniqueness of weak solutions with non-trivial magnetic fields to the 3D Hall-MHD equations on the plane in the space $C^0_t L_x^2$ through the convex integration scheme and by constructing new errors and new intermittent…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-18 Yi Peng , Huaqiao Wang , Chenlu Zhang

It is well known that the three-dimensional ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations possess three magnetic invariants: (M) magnetic helicity, (C) cross helicity, and (P) the mean-square magnetic potential, in addition to the fundamental…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Naoki Sato , Ken Abe , Michio Yamada

In this note we consider the ideal compressible magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD) equations in a special two dimensional setting. We show that there exist particular initial data for which one obtains infinitely many entropy-conserving weak…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-04 Christian Klingenberg , Simon Markfelder

We investigate the explicit convex relaxation of the ideal magnetohydrodynamics equations. We provide a non-trivial lower estimate on the lamination hull and an upper estimate on the $\Lambda$-convex hull, the latter providing inequalities…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-16 Borbála Fazekas , József J. Kolumbán

In this paper, we are concerned with the energy and magnetic helicity conservation of weak solutions for both the electron and Hall magnetohydrodynamic equations. Various sufficient criteria to ensure the energy and magnetic helicity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-23 Yanqing Wang , Jing Yang , Yulin Ye

This paper concerns the Cauchy problem of the nonhomogeneous incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations on the whole two-dimensional (2D) space with vacuum as far field density. In particular, the initial density can have compact…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-17 Boqiang Lv , Zhonghai Xu , Xin Zhong

Magnetic helicity has the remarkable property of being a conserved quantity of ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). Therefore, it could be used as an effective tracer of the magnetic field evolution of magnetized plasmas. Theoretical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 E. Pariat , G. Valori , P. Démoulin , K. Dalmasse

Whether or not smooth solutions to the 3D compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations without magnetic diffusion are always global in time remains an extremely challenging open problem. No global well-posedness or stability result is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Jiahong Wu , Xiaoping Zhai

This paper concerns the Cauchy problem of the non-baratropic non-resistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations with zero heat conduction on the whole two-dimensional (2D) space with vacuum as far field density. By delicate weighted energy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-24 Xin Zhong

In this paper, we prove the non-uniqueness of three-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) system in $C([0,T];L^2(\mathbb{T}^3))$ for any initial data in $H^{\bar{\beta}}(\mathbb{T}^3)$~($\bar{\beta}>0$), by exhibiting that the total energy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-23 Changxing Miao , Weikui Ye

This paper investigates the non-resistive compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations in $\mathbb{R}^2$. We establish the global existence and stability of classical solutions for initial data sufficiently close to a constant…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Yi Zhu

Magnetic relaxation drives plasma toward lower-energy equilibria under helicity constraints. In ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), helicity is locally conserved, while resistive theories such as Taylor relaxation preserve only global…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Patrick E. Farrell , Mingdong He , Kaibo Hu , Ganghui Zhang
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