Magnetohydrodynamic approximation of the complete equations for an electro-magnetic fluid (Q1083978)

The authors give a singular limit theorem for the magnetohydrodynamic equations in two space dimensions, which are obtained as the limit of the complete equations for the electromagnetic fluid at the vanishing of the dielectric constant. They show convergence of the solutions of the complete equations to the solutions of the magnetohydrodynamic equations if \(\epsilon\) tends to zero, with the rate \(O(\epsilon^{1/2})\) in an appropriate norm. If the initial data for the complete equations satisfy Ohm's law, then the rate of convergence is even O(\(\epsilon)\). Unfortunately, their method is not applicable to the three-dimensional problem.