Mathematisches Kolloquium: Local-in-time existence of MHD contact discontinuities

Wann
Donnerstag, 6. Juni 2019
17 bis 18:30 Uhr

Wo
F 426

Veranstaltet von

Vortragende Person/Vortragende Personen:
Professor Dr. Yuri Trakhinin (Sobolev-Institut Novosibirsk / Universität Konstanz)

Diese Veranstaltung ist Teil der Veranstaltungsreihe „Mathematisches Kolloquium“.

Abstract: We discuss recent results for contact discontinuities in ideal compressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). MHD contact discontinuities are characteristic discontinuities with no flow across the discontinuity for which the pressure, the magnetic field and the velocity are continuous whereas the density and the entropy may have a jump. For 2D planar MHD flows with a contact discontinuity we prove the local-in-time existence of a unique smooth solution to the corresponding free boundary problem provided that the Rayleigh-Taylor sign condition on the jump of the pressure is satisfi ed at each point of the initial discontinuity.