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One of the most intriguing features of Earth's axial magnetic dipole field, well-known from the geological record, is its occasional and unpredictable reversal of polarity. Understanding the phenomenon is rendered very difficult by the…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-01-02 Christian R. Scullard , Bruce A. Buffett

In this paper, we investigate the convergence rates of inviscid limits for the free-boundary problems of the incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) with or without surface tension in $\mathbb{R}^3$, where the magnetic field is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Pengfei Chen , Shijin Ding

Bubbles and super-bubbles are ubiquitous in the interstellar medium and influence their local magnetic field. Starting from the assumption that bubbles result from violent explosions that sweep matter away in a thick shell, we derive the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-19 V. Pelgrims , M. Unger , I. C. Maris

A technique is proposed for constructing three-dimensional solutions comlplying with the self-consistent magnetohydrostatic (MHS) equations and with observations along the line of sight of the magnetic field at the photosphere. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. V. Rudenko

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

This paper investigates the time-optimal control problem for the Landau-Lifshitz-Bloch (LLB) equation, a macroscopic model that characterizes magnetization dynamics in ferromagnetic materials across a wide temperature range, including near…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Sidhartha Patnaik , Kumarasamy Sakthivel

Magnetic helicity is an invariant of ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) that encodes information on the topology of magnetic field lines. It has long been appreciated that magnetic topology is an important constraint for the evolution of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-25 David MacTaggart , Chris Prior

Within the framework of holography, the Einstein-Maxwell action with Dirichlet boundary conditions corresponds to a dual conformal field theory in presence of an external gauge field. Nevertheless, in many real-world applications, e.g.,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-01 Yongjun Ahn , Matteo Baggioli , Kyoung-Bum Huh , Hyun-Sik Jeong , Keun-Young Kim , Ya-Wen Sun

We recently proposed a method to calculate the relative magnetic helicity in a finite volume for a given magnetic field which however required the flux to be balanced separately on all the sides of the considered volume. In order to allow…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-30 Shangbin Yang , Joerg Buechner , Jan Skala , Hongqi Zhang

In this paper, we consider the steady MHD equations with inhomogeneous boundary conditions for the velocity and the tangential component of the magnetic field. Using a new construction of the magnetic lifting, we obtain existence of weak…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-30 Zhibing Zhang , Chunyi Zhao

We develop structure-preserving finite element methods for the incompressible, resistive Hall magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations. These equations incorporate the Hall current term in Ohm's law and provide a more appropriate description of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-24 Fabian Laakmann , Patrick E. Farrell , Kaibo Hu

We briefly review the recent developments in magnetohydrodynamics, which in particular deal with the evolution of magnetic fields in turbulent plasmas. We especially emphasize (i) the necessity of renormalizing equations of motion in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-05-01 Amir Jafari

We consider the motion of an inviscid compressible fluid under the mutual interactions with magnetic field. We show that the initial value problem is ill--posed in the class of weak solutions for a large class of physically admissible data.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Eduard Feireisl , Yang Li

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

The minimum-energy configuration for the magnetic field above the solar photosphere is curl-free (hence, by Ampere's law, also current-free), so can be represented as the gradient of a scalar potential. Since magnetic fields are divergence…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-20 Brian T. Welsch , George H. Fisher

Coronal heating has been a long-standing conundrum in solar physics. Parker's conjecture that spontaneous current singularities lead to nanoflares that heat the corona has been controversial. In ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), can genuine…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-08-30 Yao Zhou

Context. For the last thirty years, most of the studies on the relaxation of stressed magnetic fields in the solar environment have onlyconsidered the Lorentz force, neglecting plasma contributions, and therefore, limiting every equilibrium…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-25 Jorge Fuentes-Fernández , Clare E. Parnell , Alan W. Hood

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

This paper studies the global existence of classical solutions to the two-dimensional incompressible magneto-hydrodynamical (MHD) system with only magnetic diffusion on the periodic domain. The approach is based on a time-weighted energy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-29 Yi Zhou , Yi Zhu

In this paper, we are concerned with the initial boundary values problem associated to the compressible viscous non-resistive and heat-conducting magnetohydrodynamic flow, where the magnetic field is vertical. More precisely, by exploiting…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-15 Xiaoping Zhai , Yongsheng Li , Yajuan Zhao