Nonlinear Stability of MHD Contact Discontinuities with Surface Tension

DOI10.1007/S00205-021-01740-6arXiv2105.04977MaRDI QIDQ6367372FDOQ6367372

Publication date: 11 May 2021

Abstract: We consider the motion of two inviscid, compressible, and electrically conducting fluids separated by an interface across which there is no fluid flow in the presence of surface tension. The magnetic field is supposed to be nowhere tangential to the interface. This leads to the characteristic free boundary problem for contact discontinuities with surface tension in three-dimensional ideal compressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). We prove the nonlinear structural stability of MHD contact discontinuities with surface tension in Sobolev spaces by a modified Nash--Moser iteration scheme. The main ingredient of our proof is deriving the resolution and tame estimate of the linearized problem in usual Sobolev spaces of sufficiently large regularity. In particular, for solving the linearized problem, we introduce a suitable regularization that preserves the transport-type structure for the linearized entropy and divergence of the magnetic field.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35) Capillarity (surface tension) for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B45) Existence, uniqueness, and regularity theory for compressible fluids and gas dynamics (76N10) Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Stability and instability of magnetohydrodynamic and electrohydrodynamic flows (76E25)

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