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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

We present a detailed study of localised magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) instabilities occuring in two--dimensional magnetized accretion disks. We model axisymmetric MHD disk tori, and solve the equations governing a two--dimensional magnetized…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-08 J. W. S. Blokland , R. Keppens , J. P. Goedbloed

This paper focuses on the 3D incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations with mixed partial dissipation and magnetic diffusion. Our main result assesses the global stability of perturbations near the steady solution given by a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-13 Jiahong Wu , Yi Zhu

Ideal systems of equations such as Euler and MHD may develop singular structures like shocks, vortex/current sheets. Among these, vortical singularities arise due to vortex stretching which can lead to unbounded growth of enstrophy.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-29 Sonakshi Sachdev

We are concerned with the vortex sheet solutions for the inviscid two-phase flow in two dimensions. In particular, the nonlinear stability and existence of compressible vortex sheet solutions under small perturbations are established by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-03 Feimin Huang , Dehua Wang , Difan Yuan

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 2016-01-14 Alessandro Morando , Paolo Secchi , Paola Trebeschi

In this paper, we establish the global well-posedness of the incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) system on $n-$dimensional $(n\geq 2)$ periodic boxes with either no magnetic diffusivity (non-resistive case) or no fluid viscosity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Quansen Jiu , Yaowei Xie , Zhihong Yan

It is well known that the nonlinear evolution of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence generates current sheets. In the solar wind turbulence, current sheets are frequently observed and they are believed to be an important pathway for the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-19 Chen Shi , Marco Velli , Nikos Sioulas , Zijin Zhang

We prove the existence and uniqueness of weak solutions of the three dimensional compressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations. We first obtain the existence of weak solutions with small $L^2$-norm which may display codimension-one…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-12 Anthony Suen

We study the Cauchy problem for the three-dimensional isentropic compressible ideal (inviscid and non-resistive) magnetohydrodynamic equations with velocity damping on the periodic torus $\mathbb{T}^3$. The system admits a steady…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Liening Qiao , Jiahong Wu , Fuyi Xu , Xiaoping Zhai

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

This paper resolves the global regularity problem for the three-dimensional compressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations in the three-dimensional whole space, in the presence of a background magnetic field. Motivated by geophysical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Jincheng Gao , Xianpeng Hu , Lianyun Peng , Jiahong Wu

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 work is devoted to the construction of weakly nonlinear, highly oscillating, current vortex sheet solutions to the incompressible magnetohydrodynamics equations. Current vortex sheets are piecewise smooth solutions to the…

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We study the two-dimensional structural stability of shock waves in a compressible isentropic inviscid elastic fluid in the sense of the local-in-time existence and uniqueness of discontinuous shock front solutions of the equations of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-21 Alessandro Morando , Yuri Trakhinin , Paola Trebeschi

Compared to the results in \cite{Shivamoggi}, using the normal mode method, we have rigorously confirmed that a transverse magnetic field reduces the stability of the system. Specifically, a larger velocity is required for stability in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-28 Binqiang Xie , Yueyang Feng , Ying Zhang

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 2015-11-04 Alessandro Morando , Paolo Secchi , Paola Trebeschi

We investigate the nonlinear instability of a smooth Rayleigh-Taylor steady-state solution (including the case of heavier density with increasing height) to the three-dimensional incompressible nonhomogeneous magnetohydrodynamic (MHD)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-02 Fei Jiang , Song Jiang , Weiwei Wang

In this article, the Cauchy problem of three-dimensional (3-D) incompressible magnetohydrodynamic system was investigated. If the initial $\mathcal{M}^{1,1}$ norms of the vorticity $\omega$ and the current density $j$ are both sufficiently…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-25 Feng Liu , Shuai Xi , Shengguo Zhu

The plasmoid instability in evolving current sheets has been widely studied due to its effects on the disruption of current sheets, the formation of plasmoids, and the resultant fast magnetic reconnection. In this Letter, we study the role…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 Chuanfei Dong , Liang Wang , Yi-Min Huang , Luca Comisso , Amitava Bhattacharjee