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We are concerned with supersonic vortex sheets for the Euler equations of compressible inviscid fluids in two space dimensions. For the problem with constant coefficients we derive an evolution equation for the discontinuity front of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-19 Alessandro Morando , Paolo Secchi , Paola Trebeschi

The paper is concerned with the free boundary problem for 2D current-vortex sheets in ideal incompressible magneto-hydrodynamics near the transition point between the linearized stability and instability. In order to study the dynamics of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-15 Alessandro Morando , Paolo Secchi , Paola Trebeschi

This article revisits the instability of sharp shear interfaces, also called vortex sheets, in incompressible fluid flows. We study the Birkhoff-Rott equation, which describes the motion of vortex sheets according to the incompressible…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-09-06 Ryan Murray , Galen Wilcox

In this paper, we address the problem of current-vortex sheets in ideal incompressible magnetohydrodynamics. More precisely, we prove a local-in-time existence and uniqueness result for analytic initial data using a Cauchy-Kowalevskaya…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-28 Olivier Pierre

We consider the motion of two inviscid, compressible, and electrically conducting fluids separated by an interface across which there is no fluid flow in the presence of surface tension. The magnetic field is supposed to be nowhere…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-25 Yuri Trakhinin , Tao Wang

We consider the rotating and translating equilibria of open finite vortex sheets with endpoints in two-dimensional potential flows. New results are obtained concerning the stability of these equilibrium configurations which complement…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-22 Bartosz Protas , Stefan G. Llewellyn Smith , Takashi Sakajo

We consider the free boundary problem for relativistic plasma--vacuum interfaces in two and three spatial dimensions. The plasma flow is governed by the equations of ideal relativistic magnetohydrodynamics, while the vacuum magnetic and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Paolo Secchi , Yuri Trakhinin , Tao Wang

We report here, for the first time, an observed instability of a Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) nature occurring in a fully three-dimensional (3D) current-vortex sheet at the fan plane of a 3D magnetic null point. The current-vortex layer forms…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-09 P. F. Wyper , D. I. Pontin

We study the structural stability of shock waves and current-vortex sheets in shallow water magnetohydrodynamics (SMHD) in the sense of the local-in-time existence and uniqueness of discontinuous solutions satisfying corresponding jump…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Yuri Trakhinin

An overview of some recent progress on magnetohydrodynamic stability and current sheet formation in a line-tied system is given. Key results on the linear stability of the ideal internal kink mode and resistive tearing mode are summarized.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-04-07 Yi-Min Huang , A. Bhattacharjee , Ellen G. Zweibel

We study the stability of the vortex in a 2D model of continuous compressible media in a uniformly rotating reference frame. As it is known, the axisymmetric vortex in a fixed reference frame is stable with respect to asymmetric…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-11-24 Olga S. Rozanova , Jui-Ling Yu , Marko K. Turzynsky , Chin-Kun Hu

This paper investigates the non-resistive compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations in $\mathbb{R}^2$. We establish the global existence and stability of classical solutions for initial data sufficiently close to a constant…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Yi Zhu

We study the nonlinear stability of the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations around the Couette shear flow in the channel domain $\mathbb{R}\times[-1,1]$ subject to Navier slip boundary conditions. We establish a quantitative stability…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Tao Liang , Jiahong Wu , Xiaoping Zhai

For a general class of hyperbolic-parabolic systems including the compressible Navier-Stokes and compressible MHD equations, we prove existence and stability of noncharacteristic viscous boundary layers for a variety of boundary conditions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Olivier Gues , Guy Metivier , Mark Williams , Kevin Zumbrun

We consider the Nernst-Planck-Navier-Stokes system in a bounded domain of ${\mathbb {R}}^d$, $d=2,3$ with general nonequilibrium Dirichlet boundary conditions for the ionic concentrations. We prove the existence of smooth steady state…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Peter Constantin , Mihaela Ignatova , Fizay-Noah Lee

Magnetohydrodynamic configurations with strong localized current concentrations and vortices play an important role for the dissipation of energy in space and astrophysical plasma. Within this work we investigate the relation between…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Dieter Nickeler , Thomas Wiegelmann

In this paper, we study the well-posedness of boundary layer problems for the inhomogeneous incompressible magnetohydrodynamics(MHD) equations, which are derived from the two dimensional density-dependent incompressible MHD equations.Under…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-18 Jincheng Gao , Daiwen Huang , Zheng-an Yao

We study the initial-boundary value problem of the Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible fluids in a general domain in $\R^n$ with compact and smooth boundary, subject to the kinematic and vorticity boundary conditions on the non-flat…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-01-05 Gui-Qiang Chen , Dan Osborne , Zhongmin Qian

This paper is concerned with nonlinear stability of viscous contact discontinuity to a free boundary problem for the one-dimensional full compressible Navier-Stokes equations in half space $[0,\infty)$. For the case when the local stability…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-09 Tingting Zheng

We are concerned with the linear stability of the Couette flow for the non-isentropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations with vanished shear viscosity in a domain $\mathbb{T}\times \mathbb{R}$. For a general initial data settled in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-08 Xiaoping Zhai