Acta mathematica scientia,Series B ›› 2015, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (4): 787-806.doi: 10.1016/S0252-9602(15)30022-9

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A STUDY ON THE BOUNDARY LAYER FOR THE PLANAR MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS SYSTEM

Xulong QIN1, Tong YANG2, Zheng-an YAO1, Wenshu ZHGOU3   

  1. 1. Department of Mathematics, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China;
    2. Department of Mathematics, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China;
    3. Department of Mathematics, Dalian Nationalities University, Dalian 116600, China
  • Received:2015-01-27 Online:2015-07-01 Published:2015-07-01
  • Contact: Tong YANG E-mail:matyang@cityu.edu.hk
  • Supported by:

    Xulong Qin and Zheng-an Yao's research was supported in part by NNSFC (11271381 and 11431015). Tong Yang's research was supported in part by the Joint NSFC-RGC Research Fund, N-CityU 102/12. Wenshu Zhou's research was supported in part by the Program for Liaoning Excellent Talents in University (LJQ2013124) and the Fundamental Research Fund for the Central Universities.

Abstract:

The paper aims to estimate the thickness of the boundary layer for the planar MHD system with vanishing shear viscosity μ. Under some conditions on the initial and boundary data, we show that the thickness is of the order √μ|lnμ|. Note that this estimate holds also for the Navier-Stokes system so that it extends the previous works even without the magnetic effect.

Key words: magnetohydrodynamics system, boundary layer, vanishing shear viscosity

CLC Number: 

  • 76W05
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