Strong solution of the three-dimensional $(3D)$ incompressible magneto-hydrodynamic $(MHD)$ equationss with a modified damping
Maroua Ltifi
TL;DR
This work analyzes the 3D incompressible MHD equations with damping to model porous-media effects, introducing two damping schemes: a power-law term $\alpha|u|^{\beta-1}u$ with $\beta>3$ and a generalized damping $\alpha f(|u|^{2})|u|^{2}u$ where $f$ belongs to a class that includes logarithmic forms. Under small initial data in $H^{1}(\mathbb{R}^{3})$, the authors prove global existence and uniqueness of strong solutions for the $MHD_D$ system (and discuss the critical $\beta=3$ regime, which they treat via the auxiliary $MHD_f$ formulation). The analysis combines Friedrichs regularization, sharp energy estimates in $L^{2}$ and $H^{1}$, and interpolation/semigroup tools to control nonlinear terms, yielding uniform-in-time bounds and an exponential-in-time growth bound for the $H^{1}$-norm. These results advance understanding of damped 3D MHD models in porous-media contexts and provide a framework for handling logarithmic or near-logarithmic damping nonlinearities.
Abstract
This study delves into a comprehensive examination of the three-dimensional $(3D)$ incompressible magneto-hydrodynamic $(MHD)$ equations in $H^{1}(\R^{3})$. The modification involves incorporating a power term in the nonlinear convection component, a particularly relevant adjustment in porous media scenarios, especially when the fluid adheres to the Darcy-Forchheimer law instead of the conventional Darcy law. Our main contributions include establishing global existence over time and demonstrating the uniqueness of solutions. It is important to note that these achievements are obtained with smallness conditions on the initial data, but under the condition that $β>3$ and $α>0$. However, when $β=3$, the problem is limited to the case $0<α<\frac{1}{2}$ as the above inequality is unsolvable for these values of $α$ using our method. To support our statement, we will add a "slight disturbance" of the function f of the type $f(z)=log(e+z^{2})$ or $\log(\log(e^{e}+z^{2}))$ or even $\log(\log(\log((e^{e})^{e}+z^{2})))$.
