Stability of relativistic plasma-vacuum interfaces

DOI10.1142/S0219891612500154zbMATH Open1277.35047arXiv1006.1089OpenAlexW2963610413MaRDI QIDQ4649847FDOQ4649847

Authors: Yuri Trakhinin 

Publication date: 15 November 2012

Published in: Journal of Hyperbolic Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the plasma-vacuum interface problem in relativistic magnetohydrodynamics for the case when the plasma density does not go to zero continuously, but jumps. In the vacuum region we consider the Maxwell equations for electric and magnetic fields. We show that a sufficiently large vacuum electric field can make the planar interface violently unstable. By using a suitable secondary symmetrization of the vacuum Maxwell equations, we find a sufficient condition that precludes violent instabilities. Under this condition we derive an energy a priori estimate in the anisotropic weighted Sobolev space $H_{\ast }^1$ for the variable coefficients linearized problem for nonplanar plasma-vacuum interfaces.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.1089

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zbMATH Keywords

loss of smoothnessrelativistic magnetohydrodynamicsenergy integrals method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) A priori estimates in context of PDEs (35B45) Initial-boundary value problems for first-order hyperbolic systems (35L50) Hyperbolic conservation laws (35L65) Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Special relativity (83A05)

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