Stability and large-time behavior on 3D incompressible MHD equations with partial dissipation near a background magnetic field

arXiv2210.16600MaRDI QIDQ6415488FDOQ6415488

Authors: Hongxia Lin, Jiahong Wu, Yi Zhu 

Publication date: 29 October 2022

Abstract: Physical experiments and numerical simulations have observed a remarkable stabilizing phenomenon: a background magnetic field stabilizes and damps electrically conducting fluids. This paper intends to establish this phenomenon as a mathematically rigorous fact on a magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) system with anisotropic dissipation in $mathbb{R}^3$. The velocity equation in this system is the 3D Navier-Stokes equation with dissipation only in the $x_1$-direction while the magnetic field obeys the induction equation with magnetic diffusion in two horizontal directions. We establish that any perturbation near the background magnetic field $(0,1,0)$ is globally stable in the Sobolev setting $H^3(mathbb{R}^3)$. In addition, explicit decay rates in $H^2(mathbb{R}^3)$ are also obtained. When there is no presence of the magnetic field, the 3D anisotropic Navier-Stokes equation in $mathbb{R}^3$ is not well understood and the small data global well-posedness remains an intriguing open problem. This paper reveals the mechanism of how the magnetic field generates enhanced dissipation and helps stabilize the fluid.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability in context of PDEs (35B35)

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