Special Session 21: Fluid dynamics and PDE

Stability and instability problems of MHD

Mimi Dai
University of Illinois at Chicago
USA
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Abstract:
The stability and instability problems for magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) are challenging due to the coupling nature and intricate interactions of the flow and magnetic field. We consider some particular steady states of MHD and investigate the long term behavior of the perturbed system around such steady states.