Global existence and large-time behavior of weak solutions to the compressible magnetohydrodynamic equations with Coulomb force Original Research Article

In this paper, we consider the equations of Magnetohydrodynamics with Coulomb force which is of hyperbolic–parabolic–elliptic mixed type. By constructing the approximate solutions to the modified system with an artificial pressure term added, global existence of finite energy weak solutions is established via the weak convergence method. More careful argument has been paid to overcome the new difficulty arising from the Poisson term of Coulomb force in two dimensions when the adiabatic exponent is close to one. We also investigate the large-time behavior of such weak solutions after discussing the regularity and uniqueness of solutions to the stationary problem.