# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

March  2012, 11(2): 763-783. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2012.11.763

## Global solutions to the incompressible magnetohydrodynamic equations

 1 Department of Mathematical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China 2 Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260

Received  August 2010 Revised  June 2011 Published  October 2011

An initial-boundary value problem of the three-dimensional incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations is considered in a bounded domain. The homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition is prescribed on the velocity, and the perfectly conducting wall condition is prescribed on the magnetic field. The existence and uniqueness is established for both the local strong solution with large initial data and the global strong solution with small initial data. Furthermore, the weak-strong uniqueness of solutions is also proved, which shows that the weak solution is equal to the strong solution with certain initial data.
Citation: Xiaoli Li, Dehua Wang. Global solutions to the incompressible magnetohydrodynamic equations. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2012, 11 (2) : 763-783. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2012.11.763
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