On Moffatt's magnetic relaxation equations

DOI10.1007/S00220-021-04289-3arXiv2104.14084MaRDI QIDQ6366402FDOQ6366402

Authors: Rajendra Beekie, Susan Friedlander, Vlad Vicol 

Publication date: 28 April 2021

Abstract: We investigate the stability properties for a family of equations introduced by Moffatt to model magnetic relaxation. These models preserve the topology of magnetic streamlines, contain a cubic nonlinearity, and yet have a favorable $L^2$ energy structure. We consider the local and global in time well-posedness of these models and establish a difference between the behavior as $toinfty$ with respect to weak and strong norms.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Existence, uniqueness, and regularity theory for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B03) Existence problems for PDEs: global existence, local existence, non-existence (35A01) Uniqueness problems for PDEs: global uniqueness, local uniqueness, non-uniqueness (35A02) Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05)

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