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Global solutions of the nonlinear magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations with general large initial data are investigated. First the existence and uniqueness of global solutions are established with large initial data in H 1. It is shown that neither shock waves nor vacuum and concentration are developed in a finite time, although there is a complex interaction between the hydrodynamic and magnetodynamic effects. Then the continuous dependence of solutions upon the initial data is proved. The equivalence between the well-posedness problems of the system in Euler and Lagrangian coordinates is also showed.
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Chen, GQ., Wang, D. Existence and continuous dependence of large solutions for the magnetohydrodynamic equations . Z. angew. Math. Phys. 54, 608–632 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00033-003-1017-z
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00033-003-1017-z