Abstract
In this paper, we study the property of solutions to axially symmetric incompressible MHD equations in three dimensions. First, we present the three-dimensional axially symmetric incompressible MHD equations. We propose a new one-dimensional model that approximates the MHD equations along the symmetric axis. This one-dimensional model can construct a family of exact solutions to the three-dimensional MHD equations. Second, we give a family of particular solutions to the three-dimensional and a prior estimates of one-dimensional MHD equations. Finally, we construct a family of global smooth solutions to the three-dimensional MHD equations by applying the one-dimensional solutions.
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1 Introduction
Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) [1] (magneto fluid dynamics or hydromagnetics) is the study of dynamics of electrically conducting fluids. Such fluids include plasmas, liquid metals, salt water, and electrolytes. The word magnetohydrodynamic is derived from magneto-meaning magnetic field, hydro-meaning liquid, and dynamics meaning movement. The field of MHD was initiated by Hannes Alfvén, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1970.
The fundamental concept behind MHD is that magnetic fields can induce currents in a moving conductive fluid which in turn creates forces on the fluid and also changes the magnetic field itself. The set of equations which describe MHD are a combination of the Navier–Stokes equations of fluid dynamics and Maxwell’s equations of electromagnetism.
This paper concerns itself with the incompressible three-dimensional MHD:
Here, \(\mathbf{B }(\mathbf{x },t)\) denotes the magnetic field. \(\mathbf{u }(\mathbf{x },t)\) is the velocity field. \(p(\mathbf{x },t)\) is the pressure. \(\mu \ge 0\) is the fluid viscocity. \(\nu \ge 0\) is the resistivity. First, using the transformation of cylindrical coordinate, we obtain the three-dimensional axially symmetric incompressible MHD equation: (2.13) and (2.14). Second, we get a new one-dimensional model, and this model approximates the three-dimensional asymmetric MHD along the symmetry axis. By expanding the angular velocity \(u^{\theta }\), the angular vorticity \(\omega ^{\theta }\), the angular stream function \(\psi ^{\theta }\), the angular magnetic \(B^{\theta }\), the angular current density \(j^{\theta }\), and the angular magnetic stream function \(\Phi ^{\theta }\) around \(r=0\). We neglect the high-order terms in r and assume that the second partial derivative of \(u^{\theta }_{1},~\omega ^{\theta }_{1},~\psi ^{\theta }_{1},~B^{\theta }_{1},~j^{\theta }_{1}\), and \(\Phi ^{\theta }_{1}\) with respect to z is much larger than the functions with respect to r. We get the one-dimensional coupled nonlinear partial differential equations are
Third, we construct a family of exact solutions from the above one-dimensional model. If \((u^{\theta }_{1},\omega ^{\theta }_{1},\psi ^{\theta }_{1},B^{\theta }_{1},j^{\theta }_{1},\Phi ^{\theta }_{1})\) is an exact solution to one-dimensional model, then
is an exact solution to the three-dimensional axisymmetric MHD equations (Theorem 2.1). Fourth, we consider a family of particular solutions to three-dimensional axisymmetric MHD equations \(u^{\theta }=0\) and \(B^{\theta }=0\), we arrive at
where \({\bar{v}}=-({\bar{\psi }})_{z},~ {\bar{l}}=-({\bar{\Phi }})_{z}, e(t)=3\int _{0}^{1}{\bar{v}}^{2}\mathrm{d}z+\int _{0}^{1}{\bar{B}}^{2}\mathrm{d}z\), and \(d(t)=0\). Moreover, we get a prior estimates of \({\bar{B}}(z,t)\) and \({\bar{v}}(z,t)\) (Theorems 3.2, 3.3). Finally, we construct a family of globally smooth solutions to the three-dimensional MHD using the particular solutions to the one-dimensional model (1.9), then
where
is a particular solution to (1.2)–(1.7). \(\phi (r)\) is a cut-off function to ensure that the solution has finite energy. We prove that there exist a family of globally smooth functions \(u_{1}(r,z,t),~\omega _{1}(r,z,t),~\psi _{1}(r,z,t),~B_{1}(r,z,t),~j_{1}(r,z,t)\), and \(\Phi _{1}(r,z,t)\) such that \({\tilde{u}}^{\theta }(r,z,t),~{\tilde{\omega }}^{\theta }(r,z,t),~{\tilde{\psi }}^{\theta }(r,z,t),~{\tilde{B}}^{\theta }(r,z,t),~{\tilde{j}}^{\theta }(r,z,t)\), and \({\tilde{\Phi }}^{\theta }(r,z,t)\) are solution to three-dimensional axisymmetric MHD (Theorem 4.1).
Let us mention some important results in the field of incompressible MHD equations. Caflish and Klapper [2] derived analogous conservation results of incompressible ideal MHD (i.e., zero viscocity and resistivity) for both energy and helicity. Moreover, they derived necessary condition for singularity development in ideal MHD generalizing the Beale–Kato–Majda condition for ideal hydrodynamics. He and Xin [3] derived an estimate of Hausdorff dimension on the possible singular set of a suitable weak solution as in the case of pure fluid. Various partial regularity results are obtained as consequences of his blow-up estimates. Zhou and Gala [4] proved that if the velocity field satisfies \(u\in L^{\frac{2}{1-\gamma }}(O,T,{\dot{X}}_{\gamma }(R^{3})),\gamma \in [0,1]\) or the gradient field of velocity satisfies \(\nabla u\in L^{\frac{2}{2-\gamma }}(O,T,{\dot{X}}_{\gamma }(R^{3})),\gamma \in [0,1]\), then the solution remains smooth on [0,T]. Cao and Wu [5, 6] established two regularity criteria for the three-dimensional incompressible MHD equations: the first one was in terms of the derivative of the velocity field in one direction, while the second one required suitable boundedness of the derivatives of the pressure in one direction in 2010. They proved global regularity for the two-dimensional MHD equations with mixed partial dissipation and magnetic diffusion in 2011. Wang and Wang [7] proved if the initial data satisfy \(||u_{0}||_{H^{1}}+||b_{0}||_{H^{1}}\le \varepsilon \), where \(\varepsilon \) is a sufficiently small positive number, then the 3D MHD equations with mixed partial dissipation and magnetic diffusion admit global smooth solutions. Tran and Yu [8] proved that if the dissipation terms are \(-\nu (-\Delta )^{\alpha }u\) and \(-\kappa (-\Delta )^{\beta }b\), smooth solutions are global in three cases: \(\alpha \ge \frac{1}{2},\beta \ge 1\); \(0\le \alpha \le \frac{1}{2}, 2\alpha +\beta >2\); and \(\alpha \ge 2, \beta =0\). Recently, Lei [9] proved the global regularity of axially symmetric solution to the ideal MHD in three dimension for a family of non-trial magnetic fields.
The rest of this paper is divided into three sections. The second section is devoted to the derivation of the one-dimensional model (2.17)–(2.22) and construct an exact solution to three-dimensional model. The third section presents a family of particular solutions equations: (3.10)–(3.11) and a prior estimates of \({\bar{v}}(z,t)\) and \({\bar{l}}(z,t)\). Finally, we construct a family of global smooth solutions to three-dimensional MHD equations using the particular solutions of the one-dimensional model.
2 Derivation of the One-dimensional Model
In this section, we derive the three-dimensional incompressible axially symmetric MHD equations in cylindrical coordinate. Consider the following three-dimensional resistive MHD equations
To simplify, we set the constant \(\mu \) and \(\nu \) to be 1. The incompressible and the magnetic divergence constraints are
Let
be three unit orthogonal vectors along the radial, the angular and the axial direction, respectively, \(r=\sqrt{x^{2}+y^{2}}\).
An axially asymmetric solution to the three-dimensional incompressible MHD (2.1) and (2.2) is a solution \((\mathbf{u },\mathbf{B },p)\) which takes the following form
The first equality of (2.1) can be expressed in cylindrical coordinate
The second equality of (2.1) is
where \(\nabla ^{2}=\partial ^{2}_{r}+\frac{1}{r}\partial r+\partial ^{2}_{z}.\) The incompressible constraints (2.2) are
If the pressure is given by \(P=p+|\mathbf{B }|^{2}\slash 2\), (2.5) can be simplified
Similarly, the vorticity field \(\varvec{\omega }\) and the current density \(\mathbf{J }\) can be expressed in cylindrical coordinate
where
We can introduce the stream function \(\varvec{\psi }\) and the magnetic stream function \(\varvec{\Phi }\). \(u^{\theta },\omega ^{\theta },\psi ^{\theta },B^{\theta },j^{\theta }\), and \(\Phi ^{\theta }\) is called the swirl component of the velocity field \(\mathbf{u }\), the vorticity field \(\varvec{\omega }\), the stream function \(\varvec{\psi }\), the magnetical field \(\mathbf{B }\), the current density \(\mathbf{J }\), and the magnetic stream function \(\varvec{\Phi }\), respectively. Therefore, \(u^{r}, u^{z}, B^{r}\), and \( B^{z}\) can be expressed in terms of \(\psi ^{\theta }\) and \(\Phi ^{\theta }\) as follows:
Therefore, we arrive at
and
Any smooth solution to the three-dimensional axisymmetric MHD equations satisfies the following condition at \(r=0\):
Moreover, all the even-order derivatives of \(u^{\theta },\omega ^{\theta },\psi ^{\theta },B^{\theta },j^{\theta }\), and \(\Phi ^{\theta }\) with respect to r at \(r=0\) must vanish. We expand the above solution around \(r=0\) as follows:
Substituting the above expansions into (2.12) and (2.13), we obtain
where \(u^{\theta }_{1}=u^{\theta }_{r},~ u^{\theta }_{3}=u^{\theta }_{rrr}, and ~u^{\theta }_{1zz}=u^{\theta }_{rzz}\). Cancel r from both sides and neglecting the high-order terms in r and assume that the second partial derivative of \(u^{\theta }_{1},\omega ^{\theta }_{1},\psi ^{\theta }_{1},B^{\theta }_{1},j^{\theta }_{1}\), and \(\Phi ^{\theta }_{1}\) with respect to z are much larger than the second partial derivation of these functions with respect to r, we obtain one-dimensional model
Theorem 2.1
Let \((u^{\theta }_{1}(z,t),\omega ^{\theta }_{1}(z,t),\psi ^{\theta }_{1}(z,t),B^{\theta }_{1}(z,t),j^{\theta }_{1}(z,t), \Phi ^{\theta }_{1}(z,t))\) be the solution to the one-dimensional model (2.17)–(2.22), and define
then \((u^{\theta }(r,z,t),\omega ^{\theta }(r,z,t),\psi ^{\theta }(r,z,t),B^{\theta }(r,z,t),j^{\theta }(r,z,t),\Phi ^{\theta }(r,z,t))\) is an exact solution to the three-dimensional axisymmetric MHD equations (2.13)–(2.14).
Proof
By substituting (2.23) into (2.13) and (2.14) and canceling r, respectively, we can obtain (2.17)–(2.22). \(\square \)
Let
By integrating the \({\bar{\omega }}\) and \({\bar{j}}\) equations with respect to z and using the relationship (2.19) and (2.22), we get evolution equations for \({\bar{v}}\) and \({\bar{l}}\). Now the complete equations of \({\bar{u}},{\bar{v}},{\bar{\omega }},{\bar{B}},{\bar{l}}\), and \({\bar{j}}\) are given by
where c(t) and d(t) are integration constants:
If \({\bar{\psi }}\) and \({\bar{\Phi }}\) is periodic with period 1 in z, then \(c(t)=3\int _{0}^{1}{\bar{v}}^{2}-{\bar{l}}^{2}\mathrm{d}z+\int _{0}^{1}{\bar{B}}^{2}-{\bar{u}}^{2}\mathrm{d}z,~ \mathrm{d}(t)=0.\) Note that the equations \({\bar{\omega }}\) (2.26) and \({\bar{j}}\) (2.30) are equivalent to that for \({\bar{v}}\) (2.27) and \({\bar{l}}\) (2.31), respectively. So it is sufficient to consider the coupled system for \({\bar{u}}, {\bar{v}}, {\bar{B}}\), and \({\bar{l}}\).
3 A Family of Particular Solutions
In this section, we will present a family of particular solutions to the three-dimensional MHD equations. Consider a family of non-trial solutions with the form
It is easy to check \((u^{\theta },B^{\theta })\) be zero all for time if they are zero initially, and it is also satisfied the incompressible condition (2.2). In this case, (2.13) and (2.14) are simplified
We also obtain one-dimensional model
Let \({\bar{\omega }}=\omega ^{\theta }_{1},~ {\bar{\psi }}=\psi ^{\theta }_{1},~ {\bar{v}}=-(\psi ^{\theta }_{1})_{z},~ {\bar{j}}=j^{\theta }_{1}, and {\bar{l}}=-(\Phi ^{\theta }_{1})_{z}\), we obtain the complete set of evolution equations for \({\bar{\omega }}, {\bar{\psi }},{\bar{j}}\) and \({\bar{\Phi }}\)
where \(e(t)=3\int _{0}^{1}{\bar{v}}^{2}\mathrm{d}z-\int _{0}^{1}{\bar{l}}^{2}\mathrm{d}z, f(t)=0\).
Similar to the second section, it is sufficient to consider the coupled system for \({\bar{B}}\) and \({\bar{v}}\):
Theorem 3.1
Let \((\omega ^{\theta }_{1}(z,t),\psi ^{\theta }_{1}(z,t),j^{\theta }_{1}(z,t),\Phi ^{\theta }_{1}(z,t))\) be the solution to the one-dimensional model (3.3), and define
then \((\omega ^{\theta }(r,z,t),\psi ^{\theta }(r,z,t),j^{\theta }(r,z,t),\Phi ^{\theta }(r,z,t))\) is an exact solution to the three-dimensional axisymmetric MHD equations (3.2).
Proof
It is a particular case of Theorem 2.1. \(\square \)
Theorem 3.2
(A prior estimates of \({\bar{v}}\) and \({\bar{l}}\) in \(H^{1}\)) Consider the one-dimensional axisymmetric incompressible MHD equations (3.10) and (3.11). Assume that \({\bar{v}}_{0}(z),\) \({\bar{l}}_{0}(z)\in H^{1}[0,1] \) and for fixed \(T>0\) and \(0<t<T\), we have
Proof
Multiplying (3.10) by \({\bar{v}}\) and (3.11) by \({\bar{l}}\), we have
Adding the result equations, we obtain
Integrating over z, we arrive at
Integrating over t, we get (3.13), where we use the integration by parts, Hölder inequality and \(-{\bar{\psi }}_{z}={\bar{v}}, -{\bar{\Phi }}_{z}={\bar{l}}\). This completes the proof of Theorem 3.2. \(\square \)
Theorem 3.3
(A prior estimates of \({\bar{v}}\) and \({\bar{l}}\) in \(H^{2}\)) Consider the one-dimensional axisymmetric incompressible MHD equations (3.10) and (3.11). Assume that \({\bar{v}}_{0}(z),\) \({\bar{l}}_{0}(z)\in H^{2}[0,1] \) and for fixed \(T>0\) and \(0<t<T\), we have
Proof
Differentiating (3.10) and (3.11) with respect to z, we get
Multiplying (3.15) by \({\bar{v}}_{z}\), (3.16) by \({\bar{l}}_{z}\), and adding the resulting equations, we have
Integrating over z, we obtain
Integrating over t, we obtain (3.14), where we use the Theorem 3.2, the second Gagliardo–Nirenberg inequality, the Yong’s inequality, the integration by parts, and \(-{\bar{\psi }}_{z}={\bar{v}}, -{\bar{\Phi }}_{z}={\bar{l}}\). The proof is completed. \(\square \)
Theorem 3.4
(A prior estimates of \({\bar{v}}\) and \({\bar{l}}\) in \(H^{3}\)) Consider the one-dimensional axisymmetric incompressible MHD equations (3.9) and (3.10). Assume that \({\bar{v}}_{0},{\bar{l}}_{0}\in H^{3}[0,1]\) and for fixed \(T>0\) \(0<t<T\), and C is a positive constant, we have
Proof
Similar to the proof of Theorems 3.2 and 3.3, we omit this proof. \(\square \)
4 Construction of a Family of Global Smooth Solutions to Three-dimensional MHD Equations
In this section, we will construct a family of global smooth solutions to the three-dimensional MHD equations by the one-dimensional model (3.3).
Let \( {\bar{\omega }}_{1}(z,t), {\bar{\psi }}_{1}(z,t), {\bar{j}}_{1}(z,t)\), and \({\bar{\Phi }}_{1}(z,t)\) be the solutions to the one-dimensional model (3.3). We will construct a family of global smooth solutions to the three-dimensional MHD equations from the solutions to the above one-dimensional model. \({\tilde{B}}^{\theta }(r,z,t), {\tilde{\omega }}^{\theta }(r,z,t), {\tilde{\psi }}^{\theta }(r,z,t), {\tilde{B}}^{\theta }(r,z,t), {\tilde{j}}^{\theta }(r,z,t)\), and \({\tilde{\Phi }}^{\theta }(r,z,t)\) are the solutions to the three-dimensional MHD equations (2.13) and (2.14). We define
Let \(\phi (r)=\phi _{0}(r\slash R_{0})\) be a smooth cut-off function, where \(\phi _{0}(r)\) satisfies \(\phi _{0}(r)=1\) if \(r_{0}\le r\le 1\slash 2, r_{0}=1\slash M^{\frac{1}{32}}\) and \(\phi _{0}(r)=0\) if \(0<r\le r_{0}\) or \(r>1\slash 2\). We construct a family of globally smooth functions \(u_{1}(r,z,t), \omega _{1}(r,z,t), \psi _{1}(r,z,t)\), \(B_{1}(r,z,t), j_{1}(r,z,t)\), and \(\Phi _{1}(r,z,t)\), and they are periodic in z such that
be a solution to the three-dimensional MHD equations. With the above definitions, we can derive the other four velocity and magnetic components \(u^{r}(r,z,t),\) \(u^{z}(r,z,t),B^{r}(r,z,t)\), and \(B^{z}(r,z,t)\) as
We can rewrite the velocity and magnetic vectors as
where
We choose the initial data for the one-dimensional model of the following form:
where A and M are some positive constants. \(\bar{{\mathcal {V}}}(y)\), \(\bar{{\mathcal {L}}}(y)\), \({\bar{\Psi }}(y)\), and \(\bar{\mathbf {\Phi }}(y)\) are smooth periodic functions in y with period 1. Moreover, we assume that \(\bar{{\mathcal {L}}}(y)\), \(\bar{{\mathcal {V}}}(y)\), \({\bar{\Psi }}(y)\), and \(\bar{\mathbf {\Phi }}(y)\) are odd functions in y. We have \(-{\bar{\Psi }}_{y}=\bar{{\mathcal {V}}}, -\bar{\mathbf {\Phi }}_{y}=\bar{{\mathcal {L}}}\) and
Therefore, we have
where \(||\bar{{\mathcal {V}}}_{zz}||_{L^{2}}^{2}+||\bar{{\mathcal {L}}}_{zz}||_{L^{2}}^{2}= d_{0}^{2}\). We arrive at
Let \(R_{0}=M^{\frac{1}{8}}\). From the definition of \(\bar{\mathbf{u }}\) and \(\bar{\mathbf{B }}\) we have
We assume that the initial condition for \(\tilde{\mathbf{u }}\) and \(\tilde{\mathbf{B }}\) satisfying
Therefore, we have \(||\tilde{\mathbf{u }}_{0}||_{L^{2}}||\nabla \tilde{\mathbf{u }}_{0}||_{L^{2}}\approx A^{2}\slash M^{\frac{7}{4}} ,\quad ||\tilde{\mathbf{B }}_{0}||_{L^{2}}||\nabla \tilde{\mathbf{B }}_{0}||_{L^{2}}\approx A^{2}\slash M^{\frac{7}{4}}.\) By choosing A is much larger than M, the product can be made enough large. Moreover, we have the energy inequality of the three-dimensional incompressible MHD equations (2.1)
We arrive at
Therefore, we obtain a bound for the perturbed velocity field \(\mathbf{u }\) and magnetic \(\mathbf{B }\) in \(L^{2}\) norm:
We have the following prior estimates for the three-dimensional and one-dimensional MHD equations
where (4.24)–(4.29) will be proved in Appendix. We define
where the integration of r and z is over \([0,1]\times [0,\infty )\). We further assume that the initial conditions for \(u_{1}, \omega _{1}, \psi _{1}, B_{1}, j_{1}\), and \(\Phi _{1}\) are odd functions of z, then we get \({\tilde{u}}_{1}, {\tilde{\omega }}_{1}, {\tilde{\psi }}_{1},{\tilde{B}}_{1}, {\tilde{j}}_{1}\) and \({\tilde{\Phi }}_{1}\) are odd functions of z for all time. Since \({\bar{u}}_{1}, {\bar{\omega }}_{1}, {\bar{B}}_{1},{\bar{j}}_{1},\) and \( {\bar{\Psi }}_{1}\) are odd functions of z, we can get \(u_{1}, \omega _{1}, \psi _{1}, B_{1}, \) \(j_{1}\), and \(\Phi _{1}\) are odd functions of z. It follows by the Poincaré inequality and we have
and \(H\le E, G \le K\).
Theorem 4.1
Assume that the initial conditions for \(u_{1}(r,z,t), \omega _{1}(r,z,t),\psi _{1}(r,z,t),\)
\( B_{1}(r,z,t), j_{1}(r,z,t)\), and \(\Phi _{1}(r,z,t)\) are smooth functions of compact support and odd in z. For any given \(A>1, d_{0}>1,\) there exists \(C(A,d_{0}) >0\) such that if \(M >C(A,d_{0})\), \(H(0)\le 1, G(0)\le 1\), then the solutions to the three-dimensional MHD equations given by (4.2)–(4.7) remain smooth for all times.
Proof
We use (2.13), (2.14), and (4.1) to derive the corresponding evolution for \({\tilde{u}}_{1}(r,z,t),\) \( {\tilde{\omega }}_{1}(r,z,t), {\tilde{\psi }}_{1}(r,z,t), {\tilde{B}}_{1}(r,z,t), {\tilde{j}}_{1}(r,z,t)\), and \({\tilde{\Phi }}_{1}(r,z,t)\) as follows:
In the following, we will discuss the estimates of the velocity equation \(u_{1}\) (Part I), the vorticity equation \(\omega _{1}\) (Part II), the magnetic \(B_{1}\) (Part III), and the current density \(j_{1}\) (Part IV).
4.1 Part I The estimates of the velocity equation \(u_{1}\)
Substituting (4.2) into (4.38) and using (4.1), we obtain an evolution equation of \(u_{1}\)
where \(\Delta u_{1}=u_{1rr}+u_{1zz}+\frac{3}{r}u_{1r}\). On the other hand, (2.17) of one-dimensional model vanish since \({\bar{u}}_{1}(z,t)=0,\) \( {\bar{B}}_{1}(z,t)=0\). Multiplying (4.44) by \(u_{1}\) and integrating over \([0,1]\times [0,\infty )\), we obtain
We need the relational expressions:
we have \(\int u_{1}({\tilde{u}}^{r}u_{1r}+{\tilde{u}}^{z}u_{1z})~ r\mathrm{d}r\mathrm{d}z=0.\)
where we apply the integration by parts and the incompressible constrains (2.7). In the following, we will estimate the right-hand of (4.45): I\(_{(a)}\)-I\(_{(b)}\).
where we use \({\bar{\psi }}_{1z}={\bar{v}}_{1}\), (4.8), (4.22)–(4.25), the Hölder inequality and the sobolev interpolation inequality \(||f||_{L^{4}}\le ||f||_{L^{2}}^{1\slash 4}||\nabla f||_{L^{2}}^{3\slash 4}\).
Therefore, we get
Note: It is not necessary to estimate I\(_{(c)}\) since the sum of I\(_{(c)}\) and \({III}_{(a)}\) is zero.
4.2 Part II The estimates of the vorticity equation \(\omega _{1}\)
Substituting (4.3) into (4.39) and using (4.1), we obtain an evolution equation of \(\omega _{1}\)
Moreover, \({\bar{\omega }}_{1}(z,t)\) satisfies the one-dimensional model equation (3.4)
Multiplying (4.52) with \(\phi \) and subtracting the result equation from (4.51), we obtain
Multiplying (4.53) by \(\omega _{1}\) and integrating over \([0,1]\times [0,\infty )\), we have
We need the relational expressions:
we have \(\int \omega _{1}({\tilde{u}}^{r}\omega _{1r}+{\tilde{u}}^{z}\omega _{1z})~ r\mathrm{d}r\mathrm{d}z=0\).
where we use the integration by parts, the incompressible constrains (2.7) and the Green formula. In the following, we will estimate the right-hand of (4.54): \({II}_{(a)}\)-\(\mathrm{II}_{(g)}\).
We estimate \({II}_{(b)}\) by applying \({\bar{\omega }} _{1}={\bar{v}}_{1z}\), the Höler inequality, the integration by parts, Appendix (5.2)–(5.5) and
where we need the following facts:
Therefore, we get
Note: It is not necessary to estimate \({II}_{(e)}\) since the sum of \({II}_{(e)}\) and \({IV}_{(g)}\) is zero.
4.3 Part III The estimates of the magnetic equation \(B_{1}\)
Substituting (4.5) into (4.41) and using (4.1), we obtain an evolution equation of \(B_{1}\)
Moreover, (2.20) of one-dimensional model vanish since \({\bar{u}}_{1}(z,t)=0,{\bar{B}}_{1}(z,t)=0\). Multiplying (4.68) by \(B_{1}\) and integrate over \([0,1]\times [0,\infty )\), we have
We need the relational expressions:
Therefore, we have \(\int B_{1}({\tilde{u}}^{r}u_{1r}+{\tilde{u}}^{z}u_{1z})~ r\mathrm{d}r\mathrm{d}z=0\).
In the following, we will estimate the right-hand of (4.74): \({III}_{(a)}\)–\({III}_{(d)}\) using the Hölder inequality and the sobolev interpolation inequality .
Therefore, we arrive at
Note: It is not necessary to estimate \({III}_{(a)}\) since the sum of \({III}_{(a)}\) and I\(_{(c)}\) is zero.
4.4 Part IV The estimates of \(j_{1}\)
Substituting (4.6) into (4.42) and using (4.1), we obtain an evolution equation of \(j_{1}\):
Moreover, \({\bar{j}}_{1}(z,t)\) satisfies the one-dimensional model equation (3.7)
Multiplying (4.75) with \(\phi \) and subtracting the result equation from (4.74), we obtain
Multiplying (4.76) by \(j_{1}\) and integrating over \([0,1]\times [0,\infty )\), we get
We need the relational expressions:
We have \(\int j_{1}({\tilde{u}}^{r}j_{1r}+{\tilde{u}}^{z}j_{1z})~ r\mathrm{d}r\mathrm{d}z=0.\)
In the following, we will estimate the right-hand of (4.77): \({IV}_{(a)}\)–\({IV}_{(g)}\).
As for \(IV_{(j)}\) and \(IV_{(k)}\), we apply the Hölder inequality, the sobolev interpolation inequality, (4.8)–(4.11), Appendix (5.3)–(5.8), and the following fact:
In the following, we will estimate \(IV_{(j1)}\) and \(IV_{(j4)}\)
In the following, we estimate from \(IV_{(k1)}\) to \(IV_{(k4)}\):
As for \(IV_{(k4)}\), we need the following facts:
By adding the estimates for \(\int u_{1}^{2}r\mathrm{d}r\mathrm{d}z, \int \omega _{1}^{2}r\mathrm{d}r\mathrm{d}z, \int B_{1}^{2}r\mathrm{d}r\mathrm{d}z\), and \( \int j_{1}^{2}r\mathrm{d}r\mathrm{d}z\), we obtain \(\frac{\mathrm{d}}{\mathrm{d}t}(H^{2}+G^{2})\). Each term in our estimates from \(I_{a}\) to \( IV_{g} \) can be bounded by
where C is a constant, g(H, G) is polynomial of H and G with positive rational exponents and positive coefficients that depend on \(C_{0}, A, r_{0}, d_{0}, M, \epsilon =1\slash M^{\gamma }(\gamma >0) \). Putting all the estimates together, we obtain
since \(H\le E, G\le K\). For given \(A>1, d_{0}>0\), we can choose M is large enough so that
If the initial condition for \(u_{1}, \omega _{1}, \psi _{1}, B_{1}, j_{1}\), and \( \Phi _{1}\) are chosen such that \(H(0)\le 1, G(0)\le 1\), then we have
This completes the proof of the Theorem 4.1. \(\square \)
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The author would like to thank professor Shu Wang for his valuable comments and suggestions. The work is partially supported by AnHui Province Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. KJ2011Z345), the graduated science and technology Fund of Beijing University of technology (Grant No. ykj-2012-8603).
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Appendix
Appendix
In this appendix, we will present the \(L^{2}\) norm of \(u^{r},~u^{z}\), the derivatives of \(\psi _{1},~\Phi _{1}\) of \(\omega _{1}\) and \(j_{1}\).
Proof
where we use (4.8), (4.9), (4.8) and (4.23).
we arrive at (5.3) and (5.4), where we use (4.8)–(4.10), (5.5)–(5.6) and (4.21).
3) proof of (5.5)
From (4.40), we have
Using the definition of \({\tilde{\psi }}_{1}={\bar{\psi }}_{1}\phi +\psi _{1}\) and \({\tilde{\omega }}_{1}={\bar{\omega }}_{1}\phi +\omega _{1}\), we rewrite (5.9) as
where \(\Delta \psi _{1}=\psi _{1zz}+\psi _{1rr}+\frac{3}{r}\psi _{1r},~~\Delta _{r}\phi =\phi _{rr}+\frac{3}{r}\phi _{r}\). Multiplying (5.10) by \(\psi _{1zz}\), and integrating over \([0,1]\times [0,\infty )\), we have
We arrive at
where
- a):
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\(\int \psi _{1rr}\psi _{1zz}~r\mathrm{d}r\mathrm{d}z=||\psi _{1rz}||_{L^{2}}^{2}+\int \psi _{1z}\psi _{1rz}~\mathrm{d}r\mathrm{d}z,\)
- b):
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\(\int \frac{3}{r}\psi _{1r}\psi _{1zz}r\mathrm{d}r\mathrm{d}z=-3\int \psi _{1z}\psi _{1rz}~\mathrm{d}r\mathrm{d}z,\)
- c):
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\(\int (\Delta _{r}\phi ){\bar{\psi }}_{1}\psi _{1zz}~r\mathrm{d}r\mathrm{d}z\le ||\Delta _{r}\phi ||_{L^{\infty }}\int |{\bar{\psi }}_{1}|~|\psi _{1zz}|~r\mathrm{d}r\mathrm{d}z\le \frac{AC_{2}d_{0}}{M^{5\slash 4}}||\psi _{1zz}||_{L^{2}}.\)
Multiplying (5.10) by \(\Delta _{r}\psi _{1}\) and integrating over \([0,1]\times [0,\infty )\), we get
where
- d):
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\(\int (\Delta \psi _{1})\Delta _{ r}\psi _{1}~r\mathrm{d}r\mathrm{d}z=||\psi _{1rz}||_{L^{2}}^{2}+||\Delta _{ r}\psi _{1}||_{L^{2}}^{2},\)
- e):
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\(\int {\bar{\psi }}_{1}(\Delta _{r}\psi _{1})\Delta _{ r}\phi ~r\mathrm{d}r\mathrm{d}z\le \frac{AC_{2}d_{0}}{M^{5\slash 4}}||\Delta _{ r}\psi _{1}||_{L^{2}}.\)
Moreover,
According to the above inequalities, we obtain
Combining (5.11) and (5.13), we arrive at (5.5).
3) proof of (5.6)
From (4.1), (4.7) and (4.43), we have
Multiplying (5.14) by \(\Phi _{1zz}\) and integrating over \([0,1]\times [0,\infty )\), we have
We arrive at
where
- a):
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\(\int \Phi _{1rr}\Phi _{1zz}~r\mathrm{d}r\mathrm{d}z=||\Phi _{1rz}||_{L^{2}}^{2}+\int \Phi _{1z}\Phi _{1rz}~\mathrm{d}r\mathrm{d}z,\)
- b):
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\(\int \frac{3}{r}\Phi _{1r}\Phi _{1zz}r\mathrm{d}r\mathrm{d}z=-3\int \Phi _{1z}\Phi _{1rz}~\mathrm{d}r\mathrm{d}z,\)
- c):
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\(\int (\Delta _{r}\phi ){\bar{\Phi }}_{1}\Phi _{1zz}~r\mathrm{d}r\mathrm{d}z\le ||\Delta _{r}\phi ||_{L^{\infty }}\int |{\bar{\Phi }}_{1}|~|\Phi _{1zz}|~r\mathrm{d}r\mathrm{d}z\le \frac{AC_{2}d_{0}}{M^{5\slash 4}}||\Phi _{1zz}||_{L^{2}}.\)
Multiplying (5.14) by \(\Delta _{r}\Phi _{1}\) and integrating over \([0,1]\times [0,\infty )\), we get
where d) \(\int (\Delta \Phi _{1})\Delta _{ r}\Phi _{1}~r\mathrm{d}r\mathrm{d}z=||\Phi _{1rz}||_{L^{2}}^{2}+||\Delta _{ r}\Phi _{1}||_{L^{2}}^{2},\)
e) \(\int {\bar{\Phi }}_{1}(\Delta _{r}\Phi _{1})\Delta _{ r}\phi ~r\mathrm{d}r\mathrm{d}z\le \frac{AC_{2}d_{0}}{M^{5\slash 4}}||\Delta _{ r}\Phi _{1}||_{L^{2}}.\)
Moreover,
According to the above inequalities, we obtain
Combining (5.15) and (5.17), we arrive at (5.6).
Different (5.9), (5.14) with respect to z, respectively. The process of proof is similar to the proof of (5.5) and (5.6). We complete the proof of Appendix. \(\square \)
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Wang, S., Wu, J. Property of Solution to Axially Symmetric Incompressible MHD Equations in Three Dimensions. Bull. Malays. Math. Sci. Soc. 40, 173–204 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40840-016-0320-8
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