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Whether or not the classical solutions of the two-dimensional (2D) incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations with only Laplacian magnetic diffusion (without velocity dissipation) are globally well-posed is a difficult problem and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-31 Zhuan Ye

We study the Cauchy problem for the three-dimensional isentropic compressible ideal (inviscid and non-resistive) magnetohydrodynamic equations with velocity damping on the periodic torus $\mathbb{T}^3$. The system admits a steady…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Liening Qiao , Jiahong Wu , Fuyi Xu , Xiaoping Zhai

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

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

The study of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) significantly boosts the understanding and development of solar physics, planetary dynamics and controlled nuclear fusion. Dynamical properties of the MHD system involve nonlinear interactions of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Xinliang An , Haoyang Chen , Silu Yin

In this paper, we investigate the ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations on tours $\TTT^d$. For $d=3$, we resolve the flexible part of Onsager-type conjecture for Els\"{a}sser energies of the ideal MHD equations. More precisely, for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Changxing Miao , Yao Nie , Weikui Ye

We consider inertial magneto-hydrodynamic systems in 2D. We show global existence and uniqueness of smooth solutions and global existence and uniqueness of weak solutions in Yudovich class. We prove magnetic reconnection without magnetic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Peter Constantin , Zhongtian Hu

We are concerned with the global existence of finite energy weak solutions to 3D density-dependent magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) system with Hall-effect set in a general smooth bounded domain. The perfectly conducting wall boundary condition…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-01 Jin Tan

We consider the dynamics of a layer of an incompressible electrically conducting fluid interacting with the magnetic field in a two-dimensional horizontally periodic setting. The upper boundary is in contact with the atmosphere, and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-13 Yanjin Wang , Zhouping Xin

Numerical evidence for a finite-time singularity in ideal 3D magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is presented. The simulations start from two interlocking magnetic flux rings with no initial velocity. The magnetic curvature force causes the flux…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Robert M. Kerr , Axel Brandenburg

We consider the long time behavior of solutions to the magnetohydrodynamics equations in two and three spatial dimensions. It is shown that in the absence of magnetic diffusion, if strong bounded solutions were to exist their energy cannot…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ruben Agapito , Maria Schonbek

A main result of this paper establishes the global stability of the three-dimensional MHD equations near a background magnetic field with mixed fractional partial dissipation with $\alpha, \beta\in(\frac{1}{2}, 1]$. Namely, the velocity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Xuemin Deng , Yuelong Xiao , Aibin Zang

We study the Cauchy problem of three-dimensional compressible non-isentropic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) fluids with both interior and far field vacuum states. Applying delicate energy estimates, initial layer analysis, and continuation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-23 Yang Liu , Xin Zhong

In ideal MHD, the magnetic flux is advected by the plasma motion, freezing flux-surfaces into the flow. An MHD equilibrium is reached when the flow relaxes and force balance is achieved. We ask what classes of MHD equilibria can be accessed…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 David Pfefferlé , Lyle Noakes , Yao Zhou

We establish the local existence and uniqueness of multi-dimensional contact discontinuities for the ideal compressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in Sobolev spaces, which are most typical interfacial waves for astrophysical plasmas and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-21 Yanjin Wang , Zhouping Xin

In this paper, we deal with the $2\frac{1}{2}$ dimensional Hall MHD by taking the velocity field $u$ and the magnetic field $B$ of the form $u(t,x,y)=\left(\nabla^{\perp}\phi(t,x,y), W(t,x,y)\right)$ and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-03 Hantaek Bae , Kyungkeun Kang

Newcomb's Lagrangian for ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in Lagrangian labeling is discretized using discrete exterior calculus. Variational integrators for ideal MHD are derived thereafter. Besides being symplectic and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-10-27 Yao Zhou , Hong Qin , J. W. Burby , A. Bhattacharjee

In this paper, we consider the Cauchy problem to the planar magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) system with both constant viscosity and constant resistivity but without heat conductivity. Global well-posedness of strong solutions in the presence of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Jinkai Li , Mingjie Li

In the present paper, we show an improved lower bound for the lifespan of the solutions to the ideal MHD equations in the case of space dimension $d=2$. In particular, for small initial magnetic fields $b_0$ of size (say) $\varepsilon>0$,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-24 Dimitri Cobb , Francesco Fanelli

We are concerned with the uniform regularity estimates of solutions to the two dimensional compressible non-resistive magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations with the no-slip boundary condition on velocity in the half plane. Under the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-31 Xiufang Cui , Shengxin Li , Feng Xie

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