Nonlinear Rayleigh-Taylor instability for nonhomogeneous incompressible viscous magnetohydrodynamic flows

DOI10.3934/DCDSS.2016076zbMATH Open1401.76067arXiv1304.5636OpenAlexW2964341901MaRDI QIDQ728086FDOQ728086

Fei Jiang, Weiwei Wang, Song Jiang

Publication date: 22 December 2016

Published in: Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems. Series S (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate the nonlinear instability of a smooth Rayleigh-Taylor steady-state solution (including the case of heavier density with increasing height) to the three-dimensional incompressible nonhomogeneous magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations of zero resistivity in the presence of a uniform gravitational field. We first analyze the linearized equations around the steady-state solution. Then we construct solutions of the linearized problem that grow in time in the Sobolev space $H^k$, thus leading to the linear instability. With the help of the constructed unstable solutions of the linearized problem and a local well-posedness result of smooth solutions to the original nonlinear problem, we establish the instability of the density, the horizontal and vertical velocities in the nonlinear problem. Moreover, when the steady magnetic field is vertical and small, we prove the instability of the magnetic field. This verifies the physical phenomenon: instability of the velocity leads to the instability of the magnetic field through the induction equation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.5636

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zbMATH Keywords

Navier-Stokes equationsRayleigh-Taylor instabilitysteady solutionsincompressible MHD flows

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Stability and instability of magnetohydrodynamic and electrohydrodynamic flows (76E25)

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