Variational approach to nonlinear gravity-driven instabilities in a MHD setting

DOI10.1090/S0033-569X-08-01116-1MaRDI QIDQ3506769zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hyung Ju Hwang

Publication date 17 June 2008

Published in Quarterly of Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0509364, http://www.ams.org/distribution/qam/2008-66-02/S0033-569X-08-01116-1/home.html

zbMATH Keywords

magnetic field linesRayleigh-Taylor instabilityunstable smooth steady states

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability and instability of magnetohydrodynamic and electrohydrodynamic flows (76E25) Nonlinear effects in hydrodynamic stability (76E30) Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05)

Abstract: We establish a variational framework for nonlinear instabilities in a setting of the ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations. We apply a variational method to various kind of smooth steady states which are shown to be nonlinearly unstable for both incompressible and compressible ideal MHD equations. Destabilizing effect of compressibility is justified as well as stabilizing effect of magnetic field lines arising in MHD dynamics, which distinguishes from the Rayleigh-Taylor instability in the absence of magnetic field lines.

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