Local strong solution to the compressible magnetohydrodynamic flow with large data

Abstract

The three-dimensional compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) isentropic flow with zero magnetic diffusivity is studied. The vanishing magnetic diffusivity causes significant difficulties due to the loss of dissipation of the magnetic field. The existence and uniqueness of local in time strong solution with large initial data is established. The strong solution has weaker regularity than the classical solution. A generalized Lax-Milgram theorem and a Schauder-Tychonoff-type fixed point argument are applied with novel techniques and estimates for the strong solution.