Incompressible Limit of Compressible Ideal MHD Flows inside a Perfectly Conducting Wall

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Main Authors: Wang, Jiawei, Zhang, Junyan
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author Wang, Jiawei
Zhang, Junyan
author_facet Wang, Jiawei
Zhang, Junyan
contents We prove the incompressible limit of compressible ideal magnetohydrodynamic(MHD) flows in a reference domain where the magnetic field is tangential to the boundary. Unlike the case of transversal magnetic fields, the linearized problem of our case is not well-posed in standard Sobolev space $H^m~(m\geq 2)$, while the incompressible problem is still well-posed in $H^m$. The key observation to overcome the difficulty is a hidden structure contributed by Lorentz force in the vorticity analysis, which reveals that one should trade one normal derivative for two tangential derivatives together with a gain of Mach number weight $\varepsilon^2$. Thus, the energy functional should be defined by using suitable anisotropic Sobolev spaces. The weights of Mach number should be carefully chosen according to the number of tangential derivatives, such that the energy estimates are uniform in Mach number. Besides, part of the proof is similar to the study of compressible water waves, so our result opens the possibility to study the incompressible limit of free-boundary problems in ideal MHD.
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spellingShingle Incompressible Limit of Compressible Ideal MHD Flows inside a Perfectly Conducting Wall
Wang, Jiawei
Zhang, Junyan
Analysis of PDEs
We prove the incompressible limit of compressible ideal magnetohydrodynamic(MHD) flows in a reference domain where the magnetic field is tangential to the boundary. Unlike the case of transversal magnetic fields, the linearized problem of our case is not well-posed in standard Sobolev space $H^m~(m\geq 2)$, while the incompressible problem is still well-posed in $H^m$. The key observation to overcome the difficulty is a hidden structure contributed by Lorentz force in the vorticity analysis, which reveals that one should trade one normal derivative for two tangential derivatives together with a gain of Mach number weight $\varepsilon^2$. Thus, the energy functional should be defined by using suitable anisotropic Sobolev spaces. The weights of Mach number should be carefully chosen according to the number of tangential derivatives, such that the energy estimates are uniform in Mach number. Besides, part of the proof is similar to the study of compressible water waves, so our result opens the possibility to study the incompressible limit of free-boundary problems in ideal MHD.
title Incompressible Limit of Compressible Ideal MHD Flows inside a Perfectly Conducting Wall
topic Analysis of PDEs
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01142