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Well-Posedness of the Two-Dimensional Compressible Plasma-Vacuum Interface Problem Full article

Journal Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis
ISSN: 0003-9527 , E-ISSN: 1432-0673
Output data Year: 2024, Volume: 248, Number: 4, Article number : 56, Pages count : 45 DOI: 10.1007/s00205-024-02001-y
Tags free-boundary problem, current-vortex sheets, stability, existence, regularity, systems, waves
Authors Morando Alessandro 1 , Secchi Paolo 1 , Trakhinin Yuri 2,3 , Trebeschi Paola 1 , Yuan Difan 4
Affiliations
1 INdAM Unit and Department of Civil, Environmental, Architectural Engineering and Mathematics (DICATAM), University of Brescia
2 Sobolev Institute of Mathematics
3 Novosibirsk State University
4 School of Mathematical Sciences, Beijing Normal University and Laboratory of Mathematics and Complex Systems

Funding (1)

1 Mathematical Center in Akademgorodok 075-15-2022-282

Abstract: We consider the two-dimensional plasma-vacuum interface problem in ideal compressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). This is a hyperbolic-elliptic coupled system with a characteristic free boundary. In the plasma region the 2D planar flow is governed by the hyperbolic equations of ideal compressible MHD, while in the vacuum region the magnetic field obeys the elliptic system of pre-Maxwell dynamics. At the free interface moving with the velocity of plasma particles, the total pressure is continuous and the magnetic field on both sides is tangent to the boundary. The plasma-vacuum system is not isolated from the outside world, since it is driven by a given surface current which forces oscillations onto the system. We prove the local-in-time existence and uniqueness of solutions to this nonlinear free boundary problem, provided that at least one of the two magnetic fields, in the plasma or in the vacuum region, is non-zero at each point of the initial interface. The proof follows from the analysis of the linearized MHD equations in the plasma region and the elliptic system for the vacuum magnetic field, suitable tame estimates in Sobolev spaces for the full linearized problem, and a Nash–Moser iteration.
Cite: Morando A. , Secchi P. , Trakhinin Y. , Trebeschi P. , Yuan D.
Well-Posedness of the Two-Dimensional Compressible Plasma-Vacuum Interface Problem
Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis. 2024. V.248. N4. 56 :1-45. DOI: 10.1007/s00205-024-02001-y WOS Scopus РИНЦ OpenAlex
Dates:
Submitted: Jul 18, 2023
Accepted: May 8, 2024
Published print: Jun 4, 2024
Published online: Jun 4, 2024
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Web of science: WOS:001238676800001
Scopus: 2-s2.0-85195403852
Elibrary: 68061756
OpenAlex: W4399329352
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