On well-posedness of the plasma-vacuum interface problem: the case of non-elliptic interface symbol

DOI10.3934/CPAA.2016.15.1371zbMATH Open1348.76190arXiv1512.01177OpenAlexW2963854835MaRDI QIDQ324013FDOQ324013

Authors: Yuri Trakhinin 

Publication date: 10 October 2016

Published in: Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the plasma-vacuum interface problem in a classical statement when in the plasma region the flow is governed by the equations of ideal compressible magnetohydrodynamics, while in the vacuum region the magnetic field obeys the div-curl system of pre-Maxwell dynamics. The local-in-time existence and uniqueness of the solution to this problem in suitable anisotropic Sobolev spaces was proved in [P. Secchi, Y. Trakhinin, Nonlinearity 27 (2014), 105-169], provided that at each point of the initial interface the plasma density is strictly positive and the magnetic fields on either side of the interface are not collinear. The non-collinearity condition appears as the requirement that the symbol associated to the interface is elliptic. We now consider the case when this symbol is not elliptic and study the linearized problem, provided that the unperturbed plasma and vacuum non-zero magnetic fields are collinear on the interface. We prove a basic a priori $L^2$ estimate for this problem under the (generalized) Rayleigh-Taylor sign condition $[partialq/partialN]<0$ on the jump of the normal derivative of the unperturbed total pressure satisfied at each point of the interface. By constructing an Hadamard-type ill-posedness example for the frozen coefficients linearized problem we show that the simultaneous failure of the non-collinearity condition and the Rayleigh-Taylor sign condition leads to Rayleigh-Taylor instability.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.01177

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zbMATH Keywords

hyperbolic-elliptic systemideal compressible magnetohydrodynamicsplasma-vacuum interfacecharacteristic free boundary

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Initial-boundary value problems for first-order hyperbolic systems (35L50) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35) Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) First-order elliptic systems (35J46)

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