Critical magnetic number in the magnetohydrodynamic Rayleigh-Taylor instability

DOI10.1063/1.4731479zbMATH Open1277.76124arXiv1009.5422OpenAlexW2015049606MaRDI QIDQ2865529FDOQ2865529

Authors: Yanjin Wang 

Publication date: 29 November 2013

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We reformulate in Lagrangian coordinates the two-phase free boundary problem for the equations of Magnetohydrodynamics in a infinite slab, which is incompressible, viscous and of zero resistivity, as one for the Navier-Stokes equations with a force term induced by the fluid flow map. We study the stabilized effect of the magnetic field for the linearized equations around the steady-state solution by assuming that the upper fluid is heavier than the lower fluid, $i.e.$, the linear Rayleigh-Taylor instability. We identity the critical magnetic number $|B{|}_c$ by a variational problem. For the cases $(i)$ the magnetic number $$ is vertical in 2D or 3D; $(ii)$ $$ is horizontal in 2D, we prove that the linear system is stable when $$ and is unstable when $$. Moreover, for $$ the vertical $$ stabilizes the low frequency interval while the horizontal $$ stabilizes the high frequency interval, and the growth rate of growing modes is bounded.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.5422

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Existence, uniqueness, and regularity theory for incompressible viscous fluids (76D03) Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Stability and instability of magnetohydrodynamic and electrohydrodynamic flows (76E25) Dusty-gas two-phase flows (76T15) Free-surface potential flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B07)

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