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In this paper, the existence of finite-time splash singularity is proved for the free-boundary problem of the viscous and non-resistive incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations in $ \mathbb{R}^{3}$, based on a construction of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-19 Guangyi Hong , Tao Luo , Zhonghao Zhao

In this paper, we prove the existence of smooth initial data for the 2D free boundary incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, for which the smoothness of the interface breaks down in finite time into a splash singularity.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-14 Angel Castro , Diego Córdoba , Charles Fefferman , Francisco Gancedo , Javier Gómez-Serrano

In this paper, we prove the existence of smooth initial data for the 2D free boundary incompressible Euler equations (also known for some particular scenarios as the water wave problem), for which the smoothness of the interface breaks down…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-10-02 Angel Castro , Diego Córdoba , Charles Fefferman , Francisco Gancedo , Javier Gómez-Serrano

In this paper we analyze a 2D free-boundary viscoelastic fluid model of Oldroyd-B type at infinite Weissenberg number. Our main goal is to show the existence of the so-called splash singularities, namely points where the boundary remains…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-11 Elena Di Iorio , Pierangelo Marcati , Stefano Spirito

This paper shows finite time singularity formation for the Muskat problem in a stable regime. The framework we found is with a dry region, where the density and the viscosity are set equal to $0$ (the gradient of the pressure is equal to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-02-10 Angel Castro , Diego Cordoba , Charles Fefferman , Francisco Gancedo

We prove that the 3-D free-surface incompressible Euler equations with regular initial geometries and velocity fields have solutions which can form a finite-time "splash" (or "splat") singularity first introduced in [9], wherein the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Daniel Coutand , Steve Shkoller

In this paper we study a 2D Oldroyd free-boundary model which describes the evolution of a viscoelastic fluid. We prove existence of splash singularities, namely points where the boundary remains smooth but self-intersects. This paper…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Elena Di Iorio , Pierangelo Marcati , Stefano Spirito

We construct splash-squeeze singularities for the free boundary ideal incompressible plasma-vacuum system, in which two arcs of the plasma boundary come together to form a smooth, glancing self-intersection. As the interface…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Diego Córdoba , Alberto Enciso , Matthew Hernandez

In fluid dynamics, an interface splash singularity occurs when a locally smooth interface self-intersects in finite time. We prove that for $d$-dimensional flows, $d=2$ or $3$, the free-surface of a viscous water wave, modeled by the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-11 Daniel Coutand , Steve Shkoller

In fluid dynamics, an interface splash singularity occurs when a locally smooth interface self-intersects in finite time. By means of elementary arguments, we prove that such a singularity cannot occur in finite time for vortex sheet…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-19 Daniel Coutand , Steve Shkoller

We exhibit smooth initial data for the 2D water wave equation for which we prove that smoothness of the interface breaks down in finite time. Moreover, we show a stability result together with numerical evidence that there exist solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-28 Angel Castro , Diego Córdoba , Charles Fefferman , Francisco Gancedo , Javier Gómez-Serrano

This paper establishes finite-time splash singularity formation for 3D viscous incompressible neo-Hookean elastodynamics with free boundaries. The system features mixed stress-kinematic conditions where viscous-elastic stresses balance…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Wei Zhang , Chengchun Hao , Jie Fu

We consider 3D free-boundary compressible ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) system under the Rayleigh-Taylor sign condition. It describes the motion of a free-surface perfect conducting fluid in an electro-magnetic field. A local existence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-28 Hans Lindblad , Junyan Zhang

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 consider viscous free-boundary magnetohydrodynamics(MHD) under vacuum in $\mathbb{R}^3$, especially when vacuum magnetic field is identically zero. It is a central problem in mathematics to perform vanishing viscosity limit to get a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-13 Donghyun Lee

We consider the three-dimensional incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations in a bounded domain with small volume and free moving surface boundary. We establish a priori estimate for solutions with minimal regularity assumptions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-05 Chenyun Luo , Junyan Zhang

In this paper we exclude the scenario of apparition of finite time singularity in the form of self-similar singularities in the ideal magnetohydrodynamic equations, assuming suitable integrability conditions on the vorticity and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Dongho Chae

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 provide compelling numerical evidence for the development of (potential) finite-time singularities in the three-dimensional (3D) axisymmetric, ideal, incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (IMHD) equations, in a wall-bounded cylindrical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-07-10 Venkata Sai Swetha Kolluru , Rahul Pandit

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
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