A blow-up criterion for the MHD equations with mass diffusion. (Q484296)

The article is devoted to the MHD system with mass diffusion for mean volume velocity \(v\), density \(\rho \), modified pressure \(p\) and magnetic field \(b\) on a space-time cylinder \(\Omega \times (0,T)\), where \(\Omega \subset \mathbb R^3\) is a bounded domain \[ \operatorname {div} v=\operatorname {div} b=0 \] \[ \partial _t\rho +v\cdot \nabla \rho -\lambda \Delta \rho =0 \] \[ \rho \partial _t v+\rho v\cdot \nabla v-\mu \Delta v -\lambda ((v\cdot \nabla)\nabla \rho +(\nabla \rho \cdot \nabla)v) \] \[ -\lambda ^2\nabla \cdot (\frac 1\rho \nabla \rho \otimes \nabla \rho)+\nabla (p+\frac 12| b| ^2)=b\cdot \nabla b \] \[ \partial _t b+(v-\frac \lambda \rho \nabla \rho)\cdot \nabla b-b\cdot \nabla (v-\frac \lambda \rho \nabla \rho)=\Delta b \] with boundary conditions \(v=0\), \(\partial \rho /\partial n=0\), \(b\cdot n=0\), \(\operatorname {curl} b\times n = 0\) on \(\partial \Omega \times (0,T)\) and initial conditions \((\rho ,v,b)(\cdot ,0)=(\rho _0,v_0,b_0)\) in \(\Omega \). It is shown that if \(v\in L^{2q/(q-3)}(0,T;L^q(\Omega))\) for some \(q\in (3,\infty]\), then \[ \rho \in L^\infty (0,T;H^2(\Omega))\cap L^2(0,T;H^3(\Omega)) \] \[ v\in L^\infty (0,T;H^1(\Omega))\cap W^{1,2}(0,T;L^2(\Omega)) \] \[ b\in L^\infty (0,T;H^1(\Omega))\cap L^2(0,T;H^2(\Omega))\cap W^{1,2}(0,T;L^2(\Omega)). \] Consequently, the solution can be extended beyond time \(T\) by the result of the first author [Differ. Integral Equ. 24, No. 11--12, 1037--1046 (2011; Zbl 1249.35247)].