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Instability of the magnetohydrodynamics system at small but finite Reynolds number

Analysis of PDEs 2012-03-07 v2 Functional Analysis

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to give a result concerning the stability properties of the solutions of magnetohydrodynamics equations at small but finite Reynolds numbers. These solutions are found using the alpha-effect: this method gives us solutions which are highly oscillating spatially on the scale of the underlying flow but are growing on a larger scale depending on a parameter epsilon. We prove nonlinear stability and instability results for a dense subset of initial velocity field of the flow at given Reynolds number.

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@article{arxiv.1111.2288,
  title  = {Instability of the magnetohydrodynamics system at small but finite Reynolds number},
  author = {Ismaël Bouya},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.2288},
  year   = {2012}
}

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14 pages