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Blow-up criteria for smooth solutions to the generalized 3D MHD equations
Boundary Value Problems volume 2013, Article number: 187 (2013)
Abstract
In this paper, we focus on the generalized 3D magnetohydrodynamic equations. Two logarithmically blow-up criteria of smooth solutions are established.
MSC:76D03, 76W05.
1 Introduction
We study blow up criteria of smooth solutions to the incompressible generalized magnetohydrodynamics (GMHD) equations in
with the initial condition
Here , and are non-dimensional quantities corresponding to the flow velocity, the magnetic field and the total kinetic pressure at the point , while and are the given initial velocity and initial magnetic field with and , respectively.
The GMHD equations is a generalized model of MHD equations. It has important physical background. Therefore, the GMHD equations are also mathematically significant. For 3D Navier-Stokes equations, whether there exists a global smooth solution to 3D impressible GMHD equations is still an open problem. In the absence of global well-posedness, the development of blow-up/ non blow-up theory is of major importance for both theoretical and practical purposes. Fundamental mathematical issues such as the global regularity of their solutions have generated extensive research and many interesting results have been established (see [1–5]).
When , (1.1) reduces to MHD equations. There are numerous important progresses on the fundamental issue of the regularity for the weak solution to (1.1), (1.2) (see [6–18]). A criterion for the breakdown of classical solutions to (1.1) with zero viscosity and positive resistivity in was derived in [9]. Some sufficient integrability conditions on two components or the gradient of two components of and in Morrey-Campanato spaces were obtained in [10]. A logarithmal improved blow-up criterion of smooth solutions in an appropriate homogeneous Besov space was obtained by Wang et al. [11]. Zhou and Fan [15] established various logarithmically improved regularity criteria for the 3D MHD equations in terms of the velocity field and pressure, respectively. These regularity criteria can be regarded as log in time improvements of the standard Serrin criteria established before. Two new regularity criteria for the 3D incompressible MHD equations involving partial components of the velocity and magnetic fields were obtained by Jia and Zhou [17].
When , , (1.1) reduces to Navier-Stokes equations. Leray [19] and Hopf [20] constructed weak solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations, respectively. The solution is called the Leray-Hopf weak solution. Later on, much effort has been devoted to establish the global existence and uniqueness of smooth solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations. Different criteria for regularity of the weak solutions have been proposed and many interesting results have been obtained [21–25].
In the paper, we obtain two logarithmically blow-up criteria of smooth solutions to (1.1), (1.2) in Morrey-Campanato spaces. We hope that the study of equations (1.1) can improve the understanding of the problem of Navier-Stokes equations and MHD equations.
Now we state our results as follows.
Theorem 1.1 Let , , with , and . Assume that is a smooth solution to (1.1), (1.2) on . If u satisfies
then the solution can be extended beyond .
We have the following corollary immediately.
Corollary 1.1 Let , , with , and . Assume that is a smooth solution to (1.1), (1.2) on . Suppose that T is the maximal existence time, then
Theorem 1.2 Let , , with , and . Assume that is a smooth solution to (1.1), (1.2) on . If
then the solution can be extended beyond .
We have the following corollary immediately.
Corollary 1.2 Let , , with , and . Assume that is a smooth solution to (1.1), (1.2) on . Suppose that T is the maximal existence time, then
The paper is organized as follows. We first state some preliminaries on function spaces and some important inequalities in Section 2. Then we prove main results in Section 3 and Section 4, respectively.
2 Preliminaries
Before stating our main results, we recall the definition and some properties of the homogeneous Morrey-Campanato space.
Definition 2.1 For , the Morrey-Campanato space is defined by
where denotes the ball of center x with radius R.
Let , we define the homogeneous space by
where is the space of all functions in with compact support. is a Banach space when it is equipped with the norm
where the infimum is taken over all possible decompositions.
Lemma 2.1 Let and p, q satisfy . Then is the dual space of .
Lemma 2.2 Let , and . Set
Then there exists a constant such that for any and ,
The following lemma comes from [21].
Lemma 2.3 Assume that . For , and , , we have
where and .
The following inequality is the well-known Gagliardo-Nirenberg inequality.
Lemma 2.4 Let j, m be any integers satisfying , and let , and , be such that
Then, for all , there is a positive constant C depending only on n, m, j, q, r, θ such that the following inequality holds:
with the following exception: if and is a nonnegative integer, then (2.2) holds only for a satisfying .
3 Proof of Theorem 1.1
Proof Let . We multiply the first equation of (1.1) by and use integration by parts. This yields
Similarly, we obtain
Summing up (3.1) and (3.2), we deduce that
By using Lemmas 2.1, 2.2 and (2.2), we have
where .
We apply integration by parts, , Lemmas 2.1, 2.2 and (2.2). This gives
where .
Similarly, we obtain
where .
Substituting (3.4)-(3.6) into (3.3) yields
Owing to (1.3), we know that for any small constant , there exists such that
For any , let
By (3.7), we obtain
It follows from (3.8) and Gronwall’s inequality that
where .
Applying to the first equation of (1.1), then taking inner product of the resulting equation with and using integration by parts, we get
Similarly, we have
Combining (3.10)-(3.11), using , and integration by parts yields
In what follows, for simplicity, we set .
Using Hölder’s inequality and (2.1), (2.2), we have
Similarly, we have
and
Inserting (3.13)-(3.16) into (3.12) yields
Gronwall’s inequality implies the boundedness of -norm of u and B provided that , which can be achieved by the absolute continuous property of integral (1.3). We have completed the proof of Theorem 1.1. □
4 Proof of Theorem 1.2
Proof Let . Multiplying the first equation of (1.1) by and using integration by parts, we obtain
Similarly, we get
Summing up (4.1) and (4.2), we deduce that
Using Lemmas 2.1, 2.2 and (2.2), we obtain
where .
Similarly, we obtain
where .
and
Combining (4.3)-(4.7) yields
Thanks to (1.5), we know that for any small constant , there exists such that
For any , set
By (4.8) and (4.9), we obtain
Equation (4.10) and Gronwall’s inequality give the estimate
where .
From (4.11), estimate for this case is the same as that for Theorem 1.1. Thus, Theorem 1.2 is proved. □
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Hu, L., Wang, Y. Blow-up criteria for smooth solutions to the generalized 3D MHD equations. Bound Value Probl 2013, 187 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1186/1687-2770-2013-187
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- generalized MHD equations
- blow-up criteria