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Rigorous theories of the tearing instability are mathematically quite involving. Therefore, the present note aims to demonstrate how their main results can be reproduced by a simple qualitative analysis of the respective magnetohydrodynamic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-09-18 Grigory Vekstein

The stability of a sheared magnetic field is analyzed in two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamics with resistive and viscous dissipation. Using a multiple-scale analysis, it is shown that at large enough Reynolds numbers the basic state…

chao-dyn · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Boffetta , A. Celani , R. Prandi

In this paper, we consider the global wellposedness of 3-D incompressible magneto-hydrodynamical system with small and smooth initial data. The main difficulty of the proof lies in establishing the global in time $L^1$ estimate for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-05-14 Li Xu , Ping Zhang

The small data global well-posedness of the 3D incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in $\mathbb R^3$ with only one-directional dissipation remains an outstanding open problem. The dissipation in just one direction, say $\partial_1^2 u$ is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-01 Hongxia Lin , Jiahong Wu , Yi Zhu

A new type of instability that is expected to drive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence from a purely toroidal magnetic field in an accretion disk is presented. It is already known that in a differentially rotating system, the uniform…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 Kota Hirabayashi , Masahiro Hoshino

We establish criteria of stability and instability for the stratified compressible magnetic Rayleigh--Taylor (RT) problem. More precisely, if under the stability condition $\Xi <1$, we show the existence of unique solution with algebraic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-27 Fei Jiang , Song Jiang

We study a complex Ginzburg-Landau (GL) type model related to fluid instabilities in the boundary of magnetized toroidal plasmas (called edge-localized modes) with a prescribed shear flow on the Neumann boundary condition. We obtain the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-06-27 Youngmin Oh , Gunsu S. Yun , Hyung Ju Hwang

We consider the linear stability of two-dimensional nonlinear magnetohydrodynamic basic states to long-wavelength three-dimensional perturbations. Following Hughes & Proctor (2009a), the 2D basic states are obtained from a specific forcing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-31 A. Courvoisier , D. W. Hughes , M. R. E. Proctor

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

In this paper we consider the Zakharov system with periodic boundary conditions in dimension one. In the first part of the paper, it is shown that for fixed initial data in a Sobolev space, the difference of the nonlinear and the linear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-02-24 Burak Erdogan , Nikolaos Tzirakis

Within the framework of shallow-water magnetohydrodynamics, we investigate the linear instability of horizontal shear flows, influenced by an aligned magnetic field and stratification. Various classical instability results, such as…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-01-15 Julian Mak , Stephen D. Griffiths , D. W. Hughes

This paper investigates stochastic solenoidal magnetohydrodynamics within the field-theoretic Martin-Siggia-Rose-De Dominicis-Janssen formalism, with a specific focus on the stability of the system when spatial mirror (parity) symmetry is…

We demonstrate that the three dimensional incompressible magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD) system is ill-posed due to the discontinuity of weak solutions in a wide range of spaces. Specifically, we construct initial data which has finite energy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-21 Alexey Cheskidov , Mimi Dai

This paper is devoted to the analysis of the incompressible Euler equation in a time-dependent fluid domain, whose interface evolution is governed by the law of linear elasticity. Our main result asserts that the Cauchy problem is globally…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-02 Thomas Alazard , Chengyang Shao , Haocheng Yang

Developed magnetohydrodynamic turbulence near two dimensions $d$ up to three dimensions has been investigated by means of renormalization group approach and double expansion regularization. A modification of standard minimal subtraction…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Jurcisin , M. Stehlik

Global time-dependent simulations provide a means to investigate time-dependent dynamic evolution in accretion disks. This paper seeks to extend previous local simulations by beginning a systematic effort to develop fully global…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 John F. Hawley

We present the linear theory of two-dimensional incompressible magneto-Rayleigh-Taylor instability in a system composed of a linear elastic (Hookean) layer above a lighter semi-infinite ideal fluid with magnetic fields present, above and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-05-01 S. A. Piriz , A. R. Piriz , N. A. Tahir

We carry out three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamical simulations of the magnetorotational (Balbus-Hawley) instability in weakly-ionized plasmas. We adopt a formulation in which the ions and neutrals each are treated as separate fluids…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 John F. Hawley , James M. Stone

A linear stability analysis of the hydrodynamic equations of a model for confined quasi-two-dimensional granular gases is carried out. The stability analysis is performed around the homogeneous steady state (HSS) reached eventually by the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-10 Vicente Garzó , Ricardo Brito , Rodrigo Soto

Compressible vortex sheets are fundamental waves in entropy solutions to the multidimensional hyperbolic systems of conservation laws. For the Euler equations in 2-D gas dynamics, the classical linearized stability analysis on compressible…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Gui-Qiang Chen , Ya-Guang Wang