Well-posedness of the Navier—Stokes—Maxwell equations

Abstract

We study the local and global well-posedness of a full system of magnetohydrodynamic equations. The system is a coupling of the incompressible Navier—Stokes equations with the Maxwell equations through the Lorentz force and Ohm's law for the current. We show the local existence of mild solutions for arbitrarily large data in a space similar to the scale-invariant spaces classically used for Navier—Stokes. These solutions are global if the initial data are small enough. Our results not only simplify and unify the proofs for the space dimensions 2 and 3, but also refine those in [8]. The main simplification comes from an a priori L t 2 ( L x ∞ ) estimate for solutions of the forced Navier—Stokes equations.