Stabilization Effects of Magnetic Field on a 2D Anisotropic MHD System with Partial Dissipation

To uncover that the magnetic field mechanism can stabilize electrically conducting turbulent fluids, we investigate the stability of a special two dimensional anisotropic MHD system with vertical dissipation in the horizontal velocity component and partial magnetic damping near a background magnetic field. Since the MHD system has only vertical dissipation in the horizontal velocity and vertical magnetic damping, the stability issue and large time behavior problem of the linearized magneto-hydrodynamic system is not trivial. By performing refined energy estimates on the linear system coupled with a careful analysis of the nonlinearities, the stability of a MHD-type system near a background magnetic field is justified for the initial data belonging to H-3(R-2) space. The authors also build the explicit decay rates of the linearized system.