Joint UNSW-Sydney Uni seminar on Stochastic PDEs: Agus Soenjaya (UNSW) -- Stochastic PDEs

Magnetohydrodynamics is a field in physics which is concerned with large-scale magnetic 
behaviour of plasmas and liquid metals. Classical results on the analysis and numerical 
approximations for the deterministic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations (for a viscous 
incompressible resistive fluid) will be reviewed in a series of talks, with a long-term 
aim of extending these results to the stochastic setting. In this presentation, I will 
discuss some physical backgrounds and classical results on well-posedness of the MHD 
equations due to Duvaut & Lions (1972) and Sermange & Temam (1982).