Stability of the linearized MHD-Maxwell free interface problem

DOI10.3934/CPAA.2014.13.2407zbMATH Open1302.76212arXiv1309.3980OpenAlexW3100289427MaRDI QIDQ479544FDOQ479544

Authors: Davide Catania, M. D'Abbicco, Paolo Secchi 

Publication date: 5 December 2014

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

Abstract: We consider the free boundary problem for the plasma-vacuum interface in ideal compressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). In the plasma region, the flow is governed by the usual compressible MHD equations, while in the vacuum region we consider the Maxwell system for the electric and the magnetic fields, in order to investigate the well-posedness of the problem, in particular in relation with the electric field in vacuum. At the free interface, driven by the plasma velocity, the total pressure is continuous and the magnetic field on both sides is tangent to the boundary. Under suitable stability conditions satisfied at each point of the plasma-vacuum interface, we derive a basic a priori estimate for solutions to the linearized problem. The proof follows by a suitable secondary symmetrization of the Maxwell equations in vacuum and the energy method. An interesting novelty is represented by the fact that the interface is characteristic with variable multiplicity, so that the problem requires a different number of boundary conditions, depending on the direction of the front velocity (plasma expansion into vacuum or viceversa). To overcome this difficulty, we recast the vacuum equations in terms of a new variable which makes the interface characteristic of constant multiplicity. In particular, we don't assume that plasma expands into vacuum.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.3980

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zbMATH Keywords

Maxwell equationsplasma-vacuum interfacecharacteristic free boundaryideal compressible magneto-hydrodynamicsnonuniformly characteristic boundary

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Existence, uniqueness, and regularity theory for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B03) Initial-boundary value problems for first-order hyperbolic systems (35L50) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35) Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Interfacial stability and instability in hydrodynamic stability (76E17) Stability and instability of magnetohydrodynamic and electrohydrodynamic flows (76E25)

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