Existence and stability of viscous shock profiles for 2-D isentropic MHD with infinite electrical resistivity

DOI10.1016/S0252-9602(10)60058-6zbMATH Open1240.35033arXiv0912.2700OpenAlexW1999074436MaRDI QIDQ550063FDOQ550063

Authors: Blake Barker, Olivier Lafitte, Kevin Zumbrun 

Publication date: 19 July 2011

Published in: Acta Mathematica Scientia. Series B. (English Edition) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For the two-dimensional Navier--Stokes equations of isentropic magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) with $gamma$-law gas equation of state, $gammage1$, and infinite electrical resistivity, we carry out a global analysis categorizing all possible viscous shock profiles. Precisely, we show that the phase portrait of the traveling-wave ODE generically consists of either two rest points connected by a viscous Lax profile, or else four rest points, two saddles and two nodes. In the latter configuration, which rest points are connected by profiles depends on the ratio of viscosities, and can involve Lax, overcompressive, or undercompressive shock profiles. For the monatomic and diatomic cases $gamma=5/3$ and $gamma=7/5$, with standard viscosity ratio for a nonmagnetic gas, we find numerically that the the nodes are connected by a family of overcompressive profiles bounded by Lax profiles connecting saddles to nodes, with no undercompressive shocks occurring. We carry out a systematic numerical Evans function analysis indicating that all of these two-dimensional shock profiles are linearly and nonlinearly stable, both with respect to two- and three-dimensional perturbations. For the same gas constants, but different viscosity ratios, we investigate also cases for which undercompressive shocks appear; these are seen numerically to be stable as well

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.2700

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zbMATH Keywords

magnetohydrodynamicsEvans functionstability of viscous shock waves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Shock waves and blast waves in fluid mechanics (76L05)

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