Stabilizing effect of surface tension for the linearized MHD-Maxwell free interface problem

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Autore principale: Trakhinin, Yuri
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contents We consider an interface with surface tension that separates a perfectly conducting inviscid fluid from a vacuum. The fluid flow is governed by the equations of ideal compressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), while the electric and magnetic fields in vacuum satisfy the Maxwell equations. With boundary conditions on the interface this forms a nonlinear hyperbolic problem with a characteristic free boundary. For the corresponding linearized problem we derive an energy a priori estimate in a conormal Sobolev space without assuming any stability conditions on the unperturbed flow. This verifies the stabilizing effect of surface tension because, as was shown in [Mandrik and Trakhinin, in Commun. Math. Sci. 12 (2014), 1065-1100], a sufficiently large vacuum electric field can make the linearized problem ill-posed for the case of zero surface tension. The main ingredients in proving the energy estimate are a suitable secondary symmetrization of the Maxwell equations in vacuum and making full use of the boundary regularity enhanced from the surface tension.
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spellingShingle Stabilizing effect of surface tension for the linearized MHD-Maxwell free interface problem
Trakhinin, Yuri
Analysis of PDEs
Plasma Physics
76W05, 35L65, 35R35
We consider an interface with surface tension that separates a perfectly conducting inviscid fluid from a vacuum. The fluid flow is governed by the equations of ideal compressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), while the electric and magnetic fields in vacuum satisfy the Maxwell equations. With boundary conditions on the interface this forms a nonlinear hyperbolic problem with a characteristic free boundary. For the corresponding linearized problem we derive an energy a priori estimate in a conormal Sobolev space without assuming any stability conditions on the unperturbed flow. This verifies the stabilizing effect of surface tension because, as was shown in [Mandrik and Trakhinin, in Commun. Math. Sci. 12 (2014), 1065-1100], a sufficiently large vacuum electric field can make the linearized problem ill-posed for the case of zero surface tension. The main ingredients in proving the energy estimate are a suitable secondary symmetrization of the Maxwell equations in vacuum and making full use of the boundary regularity enhanced from the surface tension.
title Stabilizing effect of surface tension for the linearized MHD-Maxwell free interface problem
topic Analysis of PDEs
Plasma Physics
76W05, 35L65, 35R35
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.14758