Non-uniform decay of MHD equations with and without magnetic diffusion

Rubén Agapito, Maria Schonbek

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Abstract

We consider the long time behavior of solutions to the magnetohydrodynamics equations in two and three spatial dimensions. It is shown that in the absence of magnetic diffusion, if strong bounded solutions were to exist their energy cannot present any asymptotic oscillatory behavior, the diffusivity of the velocity is enough to prevent such oscillations. When magnetic diffusion is present and the data is only in L2, it is shown that the solutions decay to zero without a rate, and this nonuniform decay is optimal.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1791-1812
Number of pages22
JournalCommunications in Partial Differential Equations
Volume32
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 2007
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Decay rates
  • Magneto-hydrodynamics

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