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We investigate why the non-slip boundary condition for the velocity, imposed in the direction of impressed magnetic fields, can contribute to the magnetic inhibition effect based on the nonhomogeneous magnetic Rayleigh--Taylor (abbr. NMRT)…

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We study the dynamics of the interface between two incompressible 2-D flows where the evolution equation is obtained from Darcy's law. The free boundary is given by the discontinuity among the densities and viscosities of the fluids. This…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-06-16 Antonio Cordoba , Diego Cordoba , Francisco Gancedo

This is the second part of the two-paper sequence, which aims to present a comprehensive study for current-vortex sheets in ideal compressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). The local well-posedness of current-vortex sheets with surface…

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This paper investigates the well-posedness of contact discontinuity solutions and the vanishing pressure limit for the Aw-Rascle traffic flow model with general pressure functions. The well-posedness problem is formulated as a free boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Zijie Deng , Wenjian Peng , Tian-Yi Wang , Haoran Zhang

We present here a survey of recent results concerning the mathematical analysis of instabilities of the interface between two incompressible, non viscous, fluids of constant density and vorticity concentrated on the interface. This…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-05-31 Claude Bardos , David Lannes

In this paper, we consider an incompressible viscous fluid in an infinitely deep ocean, being bounded above by a free moving boundary. The governing equations are the gravity-driven incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with variable…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-12 Tien-Tai Nguyen

It is still an open problem whether the inhibition phenomenon of Rayleigh--Taylor (RT) instability by horizontal magnetic field can be mathematically proved in a non-resistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) fluid in a two-dimensional (2D)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-17 Fei Jiang , Song Jiang , Youyi Zhao

In this work, we consider the interaction of a 3D incompressible fluid with a 2D flexible shell that occupies (a part of) the boundary of the fluid domain. We assume that the shell is perfectly elastic while the fluid is governed by the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Dominic Breit , Prince Romeo Mensah , Sebastian Schwarzacher , Pei Su

We prove the local well-posedness of the incompressible current-vortex sheet problems in standard Sobolev spaces under the surface tension or the Syrovatskij condition, which shows that both capillary forces and large tangential magnetic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-15 Sicheng Liu , Zhouping Xin

In this paper, we analyze the dynamics of two layers of immiscible, inviscid, incompressible, and irrotational fluids through a full nonlinear system. Our goal is to establish a virial theorem and prove the polynomial growth of slope and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Haocheng Yang

We study the three-dimensional incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations near Couette flow with a constant magnetic field perpendicular to the shear plane. Couette flow induces mixing and generates magnetic induction, while the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Niklas Knobel

Magnetic field topology frozen in ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and its breakage in near ideal MHD are reviewed in two parts. The first part gives a physically complete description of the frozen in field topology, taking magnetic flux…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-22 B. C. Low

We study the 3D magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations in an annular cylinder, perturbed around the explicit steady state given by the 3D Taylor-Couette velocity field and zero magnetic field. Combining a recent linear instability result for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Víctor Navarro-Fernández , David Villringer

In the present paper, we prove the a priori estimates of Sobolev norms for a free boundary problem of the incompressible inviscid MHD equations in all physical spatial dimensions $n=2$ and 3 by adopting a geometrical point of view used in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-04-23 Chengchun Hao , Tao Luo

An important problem in gas and fluid dynamics is to understand the behavior of vacuum states, namely the behavior of the system in the presence of vacuum. In particular, physical vacuum, in which the boundary moves with a nontrivial finite…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-05-26 Juhi Jang , Nader Masmoudi

We consider the motion of the interface separating a vacuum from an inviscid, incompressible, and irrotational fluid, subject to the self-gravitational force and neglecting surface tension, in two space dimensions. The fluid motion is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-04 Lydia Bieri , Shuang Miao , Sohrab Shahshahani , Sijue Wu

We present a discussion of two-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD) configurations, concerning the equilibria of accretion disks of a strongly magnetized astrophysical object. We set up a viscoresistive scenario which generalizes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-07-30 Giovanni Montani , Riccardo Benini

Isothermal compressible two-phase flows in a capillary are modeled with and without phase transition in the presence of gravity, employing Darcy's law for the velocity field. It is shown that the resulting systems are thermodynamically…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-09 Jan Pruess , Gieri Simonett , Mathias Wilke

This paper studies the two-dimensional inhomogeneous Navier--Stokes equations governing stratified flows in a bounded domain under a gravitational potential \(f\). Our main results are as follows. First, we provide a rigorous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Song Jiang , Quan Wang

Aims: In the present work we investigate the nature of the magnetic Rayleigh-Taylor instability at a density interface permeated by an oblique, homogeneous magnetic field in an incompressible limit. Methods: Using the system of linearised…

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