# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

May  2012, 17(3): 1061-1073. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2012.17.1061

## Stability of the two dimensional magnetohydrodynamic flows in $\mathbb{R}^3$

 1 Department of Mathematics, Shanghai Finance University, Shanghai 201209 2 Department of Mathematical Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631

Received  March 2011 Revised  September 2011 Published  January 2012

We prove that two dimensional incompressible magnetohydrodynamic flows are stable in $\mathbb{R}^3$. As a corollary, we show the global existence of classical solutions to the three dimensional incompressible magnetohydrodynamic equations with small initial data. Furthermore, our smallness assumption of the perturbed initial data $(u_0, B_0)$ from that of the two dimensional case is only imposed on the scaling invariant quantity $\|u_0\|_{L^2}\|(\xi\cdot\nabla)u_0\|_{L^2} + \|B_0\|_{L^2}\|(\xi\cdot\nabla)B_0\|_{L^2}$ for one direction $\xi$, while $\|u_0\|_{L^2}\|\nabla u_0\|_{L^2} + \|B_0\|_{L^2}\|\nabla B_0\|_{L^2}$ may be arbitrarily large.
Citation: Keyan Wang, Yi Du. Stability of the two dimensional magnetohydrodynamic flows in $\mathbb{R}^3$. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, 2012, 17 (3) : 1061-1073. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2012.17.1061
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