Regularity and Asymptotic Behavior of Solutions for 3D Incompressible MHD Equations with Damping ()
1. Introduction and the Main Results
In this paper, we consider the following 3D impressible MHD equations with damping terms:
(1.1)
here,
, and
,
,
denote the density, velocity, magnetic and pressure of the fluid, respectively. In the damping terms,
are real exponents and if
(resp.
), we actually mean there is no velocity (resp. magnetic) damping. The damping terms are used to describe nonlinear dissipative mechanisms. Their core role is to regulate the energy dissipation rate through the magnitude of velocity or magnetic field, reflecting the nonlinear relationship between resistance and motion intensity in physical systems. The damping arises from the resistance opposing the flow motion. It accounts for a variety of physical phenomena, such as porous media flow, drag forces or frictional effects, and certain dissipative mechanisms. In MHD flow within porous media (such as subsurface magnetohydrodynamic exploration or oil and gas reservoir development), the damping terms can describe the nonlinear seepage resistance of fluids in complex pore structures (e.g., nonlinear correction of Darcy’s law). Specifically, a larger
value indicates a stronger retarding effect of pores on high-speed flow, while a larger
value signifies more significant nonlinear variation in the permeability of the medium under strong magnetic fields. When
, problem (1.1) reduces to Navier-Stokes with damping,
(1.2)
The physical background of problem (1.2) was introduced firstly by Cai and Jiu [1], they obtained the global existence of strong solutions when
, and the strong solution is unique for
. In [2], Zhang, Wu and Lu proved for
and
that problem (1.2) has a global strong solution and the strong solution is unique when
. Zhou [3] proved that the constant 3 was the critical in some sense and established regularity criteria for
as follows: assume that
satisfies
with
,
or
with
,
, then the solution remains smooth on
. Later, Zhong [4] proved that the strong solutions exist globally for
. In addition, we also refer to [5]-[7] for related works. In the presence of magnetic field, Ye [8] first presented the definition of weak solution, concerned the preliminary
decay for weak solution for
, and showed the global regularity of problem (1.1) if one of the following five conditions verifies:
Later, this result was improved by Zhang et al. [9], the unique global strong solution to problem (1.1) was obtained for one of the four conditions:
,
;
,
;
,
;
,
. Subsequently, Ma and Zhang [10] proved that the global regularity of 2D generalized magnetohydrodynamics equations with magnetic damping provided that
,
. Recently, Li and Xiao [11] proved the existence and uniqueness of global strong solution when one of the following two conditions is verified: 1)
,
; 2)
,
. However, the global existence of strong solution to problem (1.1) for
is still unknown, and the
decay solution for
is an interesting problem when
. Motivated by [8] [9], the aim of this paper is to investigate the global existence of strong solution to system (1.1).
As regards the damped MHD equations (1.1), the definition of strong solution is as follows.
Definition 1.1 The triplet
is called a strong solution to (1.1) in
if (1.1) holds almost everywhere in
and
Now, we can state the first main theorem of the present paper:
Theorem 1.1 Let
with
. Assume that
, then there exists a positive constant
independent of
such that if
(1.3)
the problem (1.1) has a unique global strong solution.
In the following, we consider time decay rate of solutions to problem (1.1). The motivation is to understand how the
affect the time decay rate of its solutions. Here, we contrast with the heat equations and study the decay rate of solutions for problem (1.1), and give the
decay of solutions for
. We present the second main theorem as follows:
Theorem 1.2 Let
with
. Assume that
,
, then for the solution
of problem (1.1), there exists a positive constant
such that
(1.4)
Remark 1.1 The time decay problem of solutions to the dissipative equations implies that the trivial solution is asymptotically stable. It is an interesting problem to study the time decay rate of solutions to dissipative equations. We improve this decay result obtained by Ye [8] in Theorem 1.2.
Remark 1.2 It is worth noting that
, thus using Hölder’s and Sobolev’s inequalities yields
(1.5)
Consequently, it follows from (1.4) that the problem (1.1) admits a unique global strong solution when the norm
is sufficiently small.
The rest of this paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we state some elementary facts and inequalities that will be used later. In Section 3, we are devoted to the local existence and uniqueness of solutions. In Section 4, we give the proof of Theorem 1.1. Finally, we establish the
decay of solutions to problem (1.1).
2. Preliminaries
In this section, we will recall some known facts and elementary inequalities that will be used later. Now, we begin with the following Gagliardo-Nirenberg inequality, which can be obtained by [12].
Lemma 2.1 Let
, and
are arbitrary integers satisfying
. Assume that
. Then
, where
,
and
(2.1)
Then, constant
depends only
.
Next, we give the following Gronwall’s inequality (see [13]), which plays a key role in the proof of the priori estimates on strong solutions
.
Lemma 2.2 Suppose that
and
are integrable on
and nonnegative a.e. in
. Further assume that
,
, and
for a.e.
.
Then
Finally, in order to obtain the uniform bounds in next section, we present the following lemma, which can be found in [14].
Lemma 2.3 Let
and
satisfy
in
,
,
where
is bounded on bounded sets from
into
. Then, for every
, there exists
independent of
such that
Next, we consider the Cauchy problem of heat equations
(2.2)
we have the following space-time estimates:
Lemma 2.4 (see [15]) Let
and
. Then, for
, problem (2.2) satisfies the following estimates:
(2.3)
(2.4)
3. Local Existence and Uniqueness of Solutions
In this section, we will prove the following local existence and uniqueness of strong solutions to the Cauchy problem (1.1) by giving the a priori estimates later.
Theorem 3.1 Let
with
. Assume that
, then there exists a small positive time
and a unique strong solution
to the Cauchy problem (1.1) in
.
In order to give the proof of Theorem 3.1, we first derive the following key a priori estimates on
defined by
More precisely,
Proposition 3.1 Let
with
and
be a solution to problem (1.1) on
. Then, there exists a small time
and a positive constant
depending only on
and
such that
Proof. Testing (1.1)1,2 by
, respectively, and adding the resultant equations, it follows from the divergence theorem that
(3.1)
thus integrating with respect to
, we get
(3.2)
Multiplying (1.1)1,2 by
, respectively, and adding the resultant equations, then applying Cauchy-Schwartz inequality gives
(3.3)
Similarly, testing (1.1)1,2 by
and integrating the resulting equations over
, we have
(3.4)
Gathering the above equation with (3.3) and applying the Gagliardo-Nirenberg inequality, Sobolev’s inequality, we get
(3.5)
Note that
, now integrating (3.5) with respect to
and combining (3.2), we have
(3.6)
Let
, then (3.6) can be rewritten as
Hence, combining the above inequality and Lemma 2.3, we obtain the desired result. This completes the proof of Proposition 3.1.
After giving a priori estimates in higher norms, using a standard Galerkin method (see [16]), we obtain the local existence of strong solutions. And the uniqueness of strong solutions follows from the weak strong unique result in [8]. Here, we omit the details. This completes the proof of Theorem 3.1.
4. Proof of Theorem 1.1
According to the local well-posedness obtained by Theorem 3.1, we derive the proof of Theorem 1.1 in this section. Throughout this section, we define
(4.1)
Before giving the proof of Theorem 1.1, we need the following lemma, which plays a key role in the proof.
Lemma 4.1 Let
be the strong solution to the problem (1.1) on
. Then, there exists an absolute constant
independent of
, and
such that for any
, there holds
(4.2)
Proof. It follows from (3.5) that
(4.3)
Now, integrating (4.3) with respect to
and applying Hölder inequality, (3.3), we arrive at
(4.4)
This completes the proof of Lemma 4.1.
Lemma 4.2 Let
be the strong solution to the problem (1.1) on
. Then, there exists a positive constant
independent of
, and
such that
(4.5)
provided that
(4.6)
Proof. As stated in (4.2),
, which implies that
is a continuous function on
. By (4.3), there is an absolute constant
such that
(4.7)
We define
(4.8)
and assume that
(4.9)
Now, we claim that
Otherwise, which implies
. Applying the continuity of
and (4.7) - (4.9), one has
which implies that
this makes a contradiction with (4.8).
Taking
, we deduce that
provided that (4.6) holds true. Thus completes the proof of Lemma 4.2.
Next, we present the proof of Theorem 1.1.
Proof of Theorem 1.1 As stated in Lemma 4.2,
is constant and assume that
with
, and
In Theorem 3.1, we obtain a unique local strong solution
to the Cauchy problem (1.1). Assume that
is the maximal existence time to solution. Now, we shall prove that
by contradiction. According to the regularity criteria obtained by Zhou in [3], we can deduce similarly that problem (1.2) has regularity criteria as follows: if
satisfies
with
or
with
,
. Assume that
, it follows that for any
with
,
,
using Sobolev inequality gives
(4.10)
For any
, it holds from Lemma 4.2 that
(4.11)
Thus, we deduce from (1.5) that
this contradicts with (4.10). This contradiction implies that
and we obtain the global strong solution. This completes the proof of Theorem 1.1.
5. Proof of Theorem 1.2
In this section, we are devoted to the proof of Theorem 1.2 by using property of the heat equation. Assume that
are the solution of the following equation:
(5.1)
If
, we obtain from (2.3) that
(5.2)
Let
, then
satisfy the following equations:
(5.3)
Proof of Theorem 1.2 Testing (5.3)
by
, respectively, and adding the resultant equations, it follows by integrating over
that
(5.4)
where we have used the facts that
and by the definition of
gives
Applying Lemma 2.4, one has
Then, it follows from (5.4) that
(5.5)
Since
, using Fourier splitting method (see [6]), we have
(5.6)
According to the analysis above, it directly follows that
(5.7)
Next, we shall find sharper estimates by using this first preliminary decay to bootstrap. Summing up (5.5) and (5.7) gives
(5.8)
from which we infer that
(5.9)
By the definition of
and the bootstrap argument, we finally get the same decay rate to (5.7). This completes the proof of Theorem 1.2.
Acknowledgements
The author was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 12301269) and the Guangzhou Municipal Science and Technology Project (Grant No. 2025A04J5086).