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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…
The nature of current sheet formation in the vicinity of three-dimensional (3D) magnetic null points is investigated. The particular focus is upon the effect of the compressibility of the plasma on the qualitative and quantitative…
The existence of magnetic star solutions which are axi-symmetric stationary solutions for the Euler-Poisson system of compressible fluids coupled to a magnetic field is proved in this paper by a variational method. Our method of proof…
Magnetic field embedded in a perfectly conducting fluid preserves its topology for all time. Although ionized astrophysical objects, like stars and galactic disks, are almost perfectly conducting, they show indications of changes in…
In this paper we rigorously justify the convergence of smooth solutions of the Navier-Stokes-Maxwell equations towards smooth solutions of the classical $2D$ parabolic MHD equations in the case of vanishing dielectric constant . The result…
Integrable or near-integrable magnetic fields are prominent in the design of plasma confinement devices. Such a field is characterized by the existence of a singular foliation consisting entirely of invariant submanifolds. A regular leaf,…
The intensity peak of a "flying focus" travels at a programmable velocity over many Rayleigh ranges while maintaining a near-constant profile. Assessing the extent to which these features can enhance laser-based applications requires an…
This paper deals with exact formulas for the resolvent kernels and exact solutions of time dependent Schr\"odinger equations under a uniform magnetic field on the hyperbolic half plane $\H$, and under a diatomic molecular Morse potential on…
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…
Fully adaptive computations of the resistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations are presented in two and three space dimensions using a finite volume discretization on locally refined dyadic grids. Divergence cleaning is used to control…
The dynamics of magnetic reconnection in the solar current sheet (CS) is studied by high-resolution 2.5-dimensional MHD simulation. With the commence of magnetic reconnection, a number of magnetic islands are formed intermittently and move…
A method is described to model the magnetic field in the vicinity of constellations of multiple satellites using field and plasma current measurements. This quadratic model has the properties that the divergence is zero everywhere and…
We present two-dimensional resistive magnetohydrodynamic simulations of line-tied asymmetric magnetic reconnection in the context of solar flare and coronal mass ejection current sheets. The reconnection process is made asymmetric along the…
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…
For the nonlinear vector curl-curl equation describing a monochromatic light wave in a Kerr medium, an exact reduction is suggested which results in a system of four ordinary differential equations, of the first order each, for functions of…
Let $(\mathbf{u},\mathbf{B})$ be an axisymmetric self-similar solution to the stationary MHD equations with magnetic diffusion, of the form $\mathbf{u}=u^r(r,z)\mathbf{e}_{r}+u^{\theta}(r,z)\mathbf{e}_{\theta}+u^z(r,z)\mathbf{e}_{z}$ and…
We introduce two new static, spherically symmetric regular black hole solutions that can be obtained from non-linear electrodynamics models. For each solution, we investigate the dynamic stability with respect to arbitrary linear…
We consider the force-free magnetosphere of an aligned rotator. Its structure is well described by a Grad-Shafranov equation for poloidal magnetic field, the so-called "pulsar equation". We solve this equation by a multigrid method with…
We present the first results of three-dimensional (3D) numerical magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the onset of magnetic reconnection via the tearing instability in dynamically thinning current sheets in the solar corona. In all our…
A numerical scheme is developed for systems of conservation laws on manifolds which arise in high speed aerodynamics and magneto-aerodynamics. The systems are presented in an arbitrary coordinate system on the manifold and involve source…