In this section, we deduce the desired a priori estimates in order to finish the main result. Before we begin to prove the main theorem of this paper, we first state the following useful lemma that was deduced in [1].
Lemma 2.1 Assume that f, g, h, , , are all in . Then we have
Clearly, the standard energy estimate shows that
(5)
We denote that and . Thus, applying the operator ‘∇×’ to (1) and (2), together with (3), we deduce that
(6)
(7)
where is defined as follows:
The first key lemma is the following.
Lemma 2.2 If solves (1)-(4) and the initial data satisfies
(8)
where C is a suitable large number, then the vorticity ω and the current density j satisfy
Proof Multiplying (6) and (7) by ω and j, respectively, then integrating the resulting equations by parts, after adding the two equalities together, we finally deduce
(9)
We have to estimate each term on the right-hand side of (9). Some of the terms are the same as in [1] and are proved here for completeness. First, I can be written as
With the help of Lemma 2.1, we deduce that
Similarly, we obtain that
and
In order to bound J, we rewrite the integrand explicitly as follows:
Due to Lemma 2.1, we see that
Similarly,
Now, let us turn to bound L,
By Lemma 2.1, we have that
Similarly,
As for , we should split it into three parts:
Similarly,
To bound , using the incompressibility condition , we deduce that
We get the and as follows:
and
To bound K, we should divide it into three parts:
Similarly, we deduce that
and
For , we have
Thus,
and
As for , using , we obtain
Substituting all the above estimates into (9), we conclude that
Let , we deduce, with the assumption (8) on the initial data, that
Thus, the proof of Lemma 2.2 is completed. □
Now, we turn to deduce the higher order estimates about the solution.
Lemma 2.3 If is the solution of (1)-(4), then
(10)
Proof Multiplying (6) and (7) by Δω and Δj, respectively, then integrating the resultant equations by parts, after adding the two equalities together, we finally obtain
(11)
Now, we turn to bound each term on the right-hand side of (11). Similar as the proof of Lemma 2.2, keeping in mind Lemma 2.1 and the divergence-free property of u and b, we deduce
We estimate each term as follows:
Similarly,
Now, we turn to bound ,
Similarly, we can deduce that
As for N, integrating by parts, we deduce that
Similarly, we have
As for , we obtain
Thus, we have
We now turn to bound P,
For , we have
For , we see that
Thus, we can bound as follows:
Now, we turn to ,
Similarly,
To bound Q, we see that
As for , we see that
Thus, we can deduce that
Now, we turn to ,
We deduce that
Here we start to estimate R as follows:
For , we have
We deduce that
For , we have
Similarly,
Now, we turn to ,
Thus, similarly, we deduce that
For , we have
Similarly,
Finally, for the last term S, we have
We first consider ,
We deduce that
As for , we see that
We deduce each term step by step as follows:
For , we have
Thus, we deduce that
For the last term , we see that
Then,
As for , deduced by similar methods, we can obtain the following inequality (for simplicity we omit the details here):
Then, substituting all the above estimates into (11), we finally deduce that
Then we complete the proof of Lemma 2.3 by Gronwall’s lemma. □