Mathematics – Analysis of PDEs
Scientific paper
2006-10-07
Mathematics
Analysis of PDEs
27 pages
Scientific paper
Compressible vortex sheets are fundamental waves in entropy solutions to the multidimensional hyperbolic systems of conservation laws. For the Euler equations in 2-D gas dynamics, the classical linearized stability analysis on compressible vortex sheets predicts stability when the Mach number $M>\sqrt{2}$ and instability when $M<\sqrt{2}$; and Artola-Majda's analysis reveals that the nonlinear instability may occur if planar vortex sheets are perturbed by highly oscillatory waves even when $M>\sqrt{2}$. For the Euler equations in 3-D, every compressible vortex sheet is violently unstable and this violent instability is the analogue of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability for incompressible fluids. The purpose of this paper is to understand whether compressible vortex sheets in 3-D, which are unstable in the regime of pure gas dynamics, become stable under the magnetic effect in 3-D magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). One of the main features is that the stability problem is equivalent to a free boundary problem whose free boundary is a characteristic surface. Another feature is that the linearized problem for current-vortex sheets in MHD does not meet the uniform Kreiss-Lopatinskii condition. In this paper, we develop a nonlinear approach to deal with these difficulties in 3-D MHD. We first carefully formulate the linearized problem for the current-vortex sheets to show rigorously that the magnetic effect makes the problem weakly stable and establish energy estimates, especially high-order energy estimates, in terms of the nonhomogeneous terms and variable coefficients without loss of the order. Then we exploit these results to develop a suitable iteration scheme of Nash-Moser-H\"{o}rmander type and establish its convergence, which leads to the existence and stability of compressible current-vortex sheets, locally in time, in the 3-D MHD.
Chen Gui-Qiang
Wang Ya-Guang
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