Abstract
The paper is concerned with three-dimensional Hall-magnetohydrodynamics for partial viscosity terms. By applying basic inequality and energy estimates, we prove the global existence of classical solution for small initial data. Additionally, the local existence of classical solution is also obtained. The smallness conditions are given by the suitable Sobolev norms. Furthermore, the existence of classical solutions with large initial data can be obtained when the coefficients of viscosity sufficiently large.
Keywords:
well-posedness; Hall-magnetohydrodynamics; partial viscosity; classical solution; small initial data MSC:
35L60; 35Q80
1. Introduction
This paper investigates the following three-dimensional Hall-MHD system (Hall-MHD):
where represent the magnetic field and velocity vector field, p denotes the scalar pressure, is a scalar, and are the kinematic viscosity. The Hall-MHD is indeed needed for such problems as magnetic reconnection in space plasmas, star formation, neutron stars and geo-dynamo. Compared with the MHD system, the Hall-MHD equations have the Hall term , which plays an important role in magnetic reconnection, which is happening in the case of large magnetic shear. Hall-MHD is an essential feature in relation to the problem of magnetic reconnection; it corresponds to changes in the topology of magnetic field lines which are ubiquitously observed in space.
There exist many results on incompressible Hall-magnetohydrodynamic equations: In paper [1]’s given derivation of model (1), Chae, Degond and Liu [2] established well-posedness for Hall-magnetohydrodynamics. Chae and Lee [3] established the blow-up criterion and small data global existence for the Hall-magnetohydrodynamics. The papers [4,5] investigated temporal decay and singularity formation for the Hall-magnetohydrodynamic equations. Paper [6] studied the partial regularity for the steady Hall-magnetohydrodynamics system followed by paper [7]. Ye [8] obtained the well-posedness results for the 3D incompressible Hall-MHD equations with fractional dissipation. Liu [9] established the global existence to Hall-MHD system. Dai [10] obtained almost certain well-posedness for Hall-MHD.
Dumas and Sueur [11] derived weak solutions to the Maxwell–Landau–Lifshitz equations and to Hall-magnetohydrodynamic equations. Paper [12] established well-posedness for the axisymmetric incompressible viscous Hall-magnetohydrodynamic equations. Homann and Grauer [13] investigated the bifurcation analysis of magnetic reconnection in Hall-MHD systems. Li [14] investigated the local well-posedness of a 3D ideal Hall-MHD system with an azimuthal magnetic field. The global well-posedness of 3D incompressible hyper-dissipative Hall-MHD equations in anisotropic Besov spaces was obtained in [15]. Danchin and Tan [16] established the well-posedness of the Hall-magnetohydrodynamics system in critical spaces.
To inspire this research, we recall related important contributions to incompressible Hall-MHD equations. Fei and Xiang [17] researched Hall-magnetohydrodynamics for partial dissipation, and obtained a blow-up criterion of classical solutions. Du [18] investigated 2.5D Hall-magnetohydrodynamics with partial dissipation and proved the classical solutions that followed in [19]. Two blow-up criteria of smooth solutions and two improved classical solutions with small initial data for the Hall-magnetohydrodynamics with partial viscosity terms were established in paper [20,21]. Additionally, 3D magnetohydrodynamics with partial diffusion have been analysed by Ye and Zhu [22], who obtained the existence of the global classical solutions.
2. Preliminaries
This paper concerns three-dimensional Hall-magnetohydrodynamics (1) with partial viscosity—that is, the case of . We should point out that this case is mainly a mathematical simplification, but it is theoretically significant in mathematics due to the partial viscosity terms leading to no smoothing effect on the vertical derivative. We show the global well-posedness and, more precisely, we prove the global existence and the local existence of classical solutions for system (1) with partial viscosity terms.
In this paper, represent a generic positive constant, and and indicate the corresponding k-th components of , respectively.
where with .
3. Results
The paper researches the global well-posedness for model (1) with .
Theorem 1.
Suppose 3D Hall-magnetohydrodynamics (1) with and , and assume and . Then, there exists such that there exists a unique solution .
Based on the local existence of classical solutions for system (1) with the partial viscosity terms in Theorem 1, we can establish the following global-in-time existence of the classical solution for the system (1) with .
Theorem 2.
Consider model (1) with and , and assume with . Then, there exists , if
System (1) has a unique classical solution , satisfying
Remark 1.
Compared to previous results, the existence of classical solutions with large initial data can be obtained when the coefficients of viscosity are sufficiently large. In addition, the initial data instead of () in paper [2] are sufficiently small.
Remark 2.
It will be interesting if one could obtain the global regularity in terms of only one component of the velocity in system (1), as there is an essential difficulty due to the quadratic Hall term.
4. Local Existence
Proof of Theorem 1.
Applying to the first two equations of (1), and taking the inner product of the resulting equations with and , respectively, and adding them together, we obtain
Notice that , and the above equality becomes (11). Using calculus inequality and Sobolev inequality, one obtains
Applying Leibnitz formula and Sobolev inequality, we obtain
In a similar manner, we obtain
Integrating by parts in , and then similarly to the above calculation, one obtains
By cancellation property, calculus inequality and Sobolev inequality, one can estimate as
Combining (4)–(9), we obtain
Applying nonlinear Gronwall’s inequality to (10), and choosing , we can then obtain
which completes the proof of Theorem 1. □
5. Priori Estimates
In this section, we require the following useful inequality.
Lemma 1
([23]). Assume that ; then, the following inequality holds:
Given a classical solution on to (1) with , we define
Under and , and taking scalar products of the first two equations of model (1) with v and b, respectively, one obtains
Based on the above equality, one can obtain the energy inequality as following.
Lemma 2.
Suppose solves (1) with the on ; then,
Next, we will structure energy estimates of .
Lemma 3.
Suppose solves (1) with and on , if
and (2) holds, and is sufficiently small. Then,
Proof of Lemma 3.
Applying ∇ to the first two equations of model (1), taking the inner products with and then summing them together results in
One can split into three parts:
Applying Hölder inequality, Young’s inequality and interpolation result in
By Lemma 1, one has
In a similar manner, we can obtain
Therefore,
By Hölder inequality, we obtain
Using the cancellation property, we rewrite as
Hence, one can apply the same procedure as to obtain
Based on cancellation property, one obtains
Combining (15)–(19) results in
Therefore,
Collecting Lemma 2, (13), (20), one obtains
which, together with (2), and upon choosing a sufficiently small , yields (14). □
Lemma 4.
Under the same conditions of Lemma 3,
Proof of Lemma 4.
Similarly to the derivation of (15), one has
can be rewritten as
Using the same procedure as estimates in [19], we can split and into three parts, respectively.
and
By Hölder and Young’s inequality, we obtain
Applying Lemma 1, we estimate as follows.
and
Therefore,
Clearly, and can be estimated as and ; thus, one has
Hence, we can obtain
One decomposes into two terms:
Using interpolation, one obtains
and
Thus, one obtains
Based on cancellation property, one can write into four terms:
(), and can be estimated as and ; hence, one has
Similarly to (19), we obtain
Putting (22)–(26) together results in
Hence, one obtains
Combining Lemma 2, (13) and (27), we obtain
which, together with (2), and taking as sufficiently small, results in (21). □
Proposition 1.
Suppose solves the system (1) with case and , and there exists ; if (2) and (13) hold, then
Proof of Proposition 1.
Based on the following Lemmas 3 and 4, adding (14) and (21) results in
Therefore,
This completes the proof of Proposition 1. □
From Proposition 1, one deduces energy estimates as follows.
Proposition 2.
Under the same conditions as in Proposition 1,
Proof of Proposition 2.
Similarly to (15), one obtains
One can rewrite into three parts:
Similarly to the estimates in paper [19], and can be decomposed into three parts, respectively.
and
Using Hölder inequality results in
By Lemma 1, one can estimate as follows:
and
Therefore,
Via applying a similar process as with , one obtains
Based on Lemma 1, we estimate as follows:
One can apply same procedure as to obtain
Thus,
Obviously, can be estimated as ; hence,
Collecting these above estimates, we obtain
One can write into three parts:
Applying Young’s inequality and interpolation results in
In a similar manner, one can obtain
and
Hence, we obtain
Applying cancellation property, one writes into six parts:
can be further divided into two terms:
and can be estimated as and ; therefore,
One can apply a similar process as in (13) to deduce that
Combining (30)–(34) results in
Based on Gronwall’s inequality, we obtain
The above inequality, together with Lemmas 3 and 4, results in (29). □
6. Global Existence
Proof of Theorem 2.
Based on the Theorem 1 and Propositions 1 and 2, one can imply the following:
Applying Gronwall’s inequality results in
We can observe that ; therefore, if , then
which ends the existence of classical solutions that can be obtained; one can use the -method to prove the uniqueness of classical solution. □
7. Conclusions
In this paper, we establish the global existence and the local existence of classical solutions to the incompressible resistive Hall-magnetohydrodynamic equations with partial viscosity terms. There exist two main difficulties: the first one is due to the partial viscosity terms that mean there is no smoothing effect on the vertical derivative; the other one arises from the Hall term, which is quadratic in the magnetic field and involves second-order derivatives. To overcome these two difficulties, we apply delicate estimates for the energy method. It is very important to establish the global regularity for three-dimensional Hall-magnetohydrodynamic equations with partial magnetic diffusion, which need new technical means to overcome the difficulties that arise from the Hall term.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization, G.X.; Validation, B.D.; Formal analysis, G.X.; Investigation, B.D.; Resources, G.X. and B.D.; Data curation, G.X. and B.D.; Writing—original draft, B.D.; Writing—review and editing, B.D.; Supervision, G.X. and B.D.; Project administration, B.D.; Funding acquisition, G.X. and B.D. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Funding
This research was funded by High-level Talent Sailing Project of Yibin University grant number 2021QH07.
Institutional Review Board Statement
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Informed Consent Statement
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Data Availability Statement
The original contributions presented in this study are included in the article. Further inquiries can be directed to the corresponding author.
Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank the editors and anonymous referee for their helpful suggestions, which will improved this paper.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
Abbreviations
The following abbreviation is used in this manuscript:
| Hall-MHD equations | Hall-magnetohydrodynamics |
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