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This paper concerns the Cauchy problem of the two-dimensional (2D) nonhomogeneous incompressible Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations with vacuum as far field density. We establish the global existence and uniqueness of strong solutions to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-08-08 Boqiang Lv , Zhonghai Xu , Xin Zhong

In this paper, we establish the non-uniqueness of solutions to the ideal magnetohydrodynamics equations in any dimension greater than three by proving the existence of infinitely many compactly supported weak solutions. In particular, these…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Changxing Miao , Zhiwen Zhao

In this paper, we prove the global existence of smooth solutions to the three-dimensional incompressible magneto-hydrodynamical system with initial data close enough to the equilibrium state, $(e_3,0).$ Compared with the the previous works…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-11 Hammadi Abidi , Ping Zhang

This paper is concerned with the Cauchy problem of the two-dimensional MHD system with magnetic diffusion. It was proved that the MHD equations have a unique global strong solution around the equilibrium state $(0, e_1)$. Furthermore, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-10 Zhouyu Li , Pan Liu , Pengcheng Niu

This paper focuses on the 2D compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations without magnetic diffusion in a periodic domain. We present a systematic approach to establishing the global existence of smooth solutions when the initial data…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Jiahong Wu , Yi Zhu

In recent years, the global existence of classical solutions to the Cauchy problem for 2D incompressible viscous MHD equations without magnetic diffusion has been proved in \cite{Ren,TZhang}, under the assumption that initial data is close…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-22 Shijin Ding , Ronghua Pan , Yi Zhu

In this paper, the global smooth solution of Cauchy's problem of incompressible, resistive, viscous Hall-magnetohydrodynamics (Hall-MHD) is studied. By exploring the nonlinear structure of Hall-MHD equations, a class of large initial data…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-29 Huali Zhang

In this series of papers we examine magnetic reconnection in a domain where the magnetic field does not vanish and the non-ideal region is localised in space. In a previous paper we presented a technique for obtaining analytical solutions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. L. Wilmot-Smith , G. Hornig , E. R. Priest

We study the global existence of classical solutions for two-dimensional incompressible MHD system with only magnetic diffusion. By using the time-weighted lower-order energy and uniformly bounded higher-order energy estimates, we prove the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-27 Yuanyuan Qiao

Via convex integration, we construct weak solutions to the non-resistive electron-MHD system which do not conserve energy and magnetic helicity.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-06 Mimi Dai , Han Liu

We prove the local well-posedness of the 3D free-boundary incompressible ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations with surface tension, which describe the motion of a perfect conducting fluid in an electromagnetic field. We adapt the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-13 Xumin Gu , Chenyun Luo , Junyan Zhang

We prove the global-in-time existence of H^2 solutions of the equations of compressible magnetohydrodynamics with zero magnetic resistivity in three space dimensions. Initial data are taken to be small in H^2 modulo a constant state and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-16 Anthony Suen

Magnetic helicity is conserved under ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and quasi-conserved even under a resistive process. The standard definition for magnetic helicity cannot be applied directly to an open magnetic field in a volume,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-27 Kai E. Yang , Michael S. Wheatland , Stuart A. Gilchrist

In this paper, we are concerned with the two-dimensional (2D) incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations with velocity dissipation given by $(-\Delta)^{\alpha}$ and magnetic diffusion given by reducing about logarithmic diffusion…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-31 Chao Deng , Zhuan Ye , Baoquan Yuan , Jiefeng Zhao

Classical solutions of the three-dimensional Euler equations of an ideal incompressible fluid conserve the helicity. We introduce a new weak formulation of the vorticity formulation of the Euler equations in which (by implementing the Bony…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Daniel W. Boutros , Edriss S. Titi

Analyzing magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flows requires accurate predictions of the Lorentz force and energy conversion. Total energy, cross-helicity, and magnetic helicity can be used to investigate energy conservation properties in inviscid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-03 Hideki Yanaoka

The global existence of strong solutions to the compressible viscous magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations in $\mathbb{R}^3$ remains a significant open problem. When there is no magnetic diffusion, even small data global well-posedness is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-08 Jiahong Wu , Xiaoping Zhai

Magnetic helicity is a conserved quantity of ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) that is related to the topology of the magnetic field, and is widely studied in both laboratory and astrophysical plasmas. When the magnetic field has a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-07-28 David MacTaggart , Alberto Valli

In this paper, we investigate the Cauchy problem of the compressible non-resistive MHD on $\mathbb{R}^2$ with vacuum as far field density. We prove that the 2D Cauchy problem has a unique local strong solution provided the initial density…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-03 Mingtao Chen , Aibin Zang

In Lagrangian coordinates, the local well-posedness of low regularity solutions is established for an ideal incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) system subject to a homogeneous background magnetic field. First, the MHD system is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Huali Zhang