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We consider the Cauchy problem to the three-dimensional isentropic compressible Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) system with density-dependent viscosities. When the initial density is linearly equivalent to a large constant state, we prove that…
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We assert that the solutions to the Cauchy problem of the inviscid vorticity equation remain regular and unique for any smooth initial data of finite energy. However, the primitive formulation of the Euler equations is not well-posed, due…
We consider a multi-component version of the conserved Allen-Cahn equation proposed by J. Rubinstein and P. Sternberg in 1992 as an alternative model for phase separation. In our case, the free energy is characterized by a mixing entropy…
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