Global Existence of Strong Solutions to Incompressible MHD

Huajun Gong, Jinkai Li

Published 2012-11-26, updated 2013-12-02Version 2

We establish the global existence and uniqueness of strong solutions to the initial boundary value problem for incompressible MHD equations in a bounded smooth domain of three spatial dimensions with initial density being allowed to have vacuum, in particular, the initial density can vanish in a set of positive Lebessgue measure. More precisely, under the assumption that the production of the quantities $|\sqrt\rho_0u_0|_{L^2(\Omega)}^2+|H_0|_{L^2(\Omega)}^2$ and $|\nabla u_0|_{L^2(\Omega)}^2+|\nabla H_0|_{L^2(\Omega)}^2$ is suitably small, with the smallness depending only on the bound of the initial density and the domain, we prove that there is a unique strong solution to the Dirichlet problem of the incompressible MHD system.