Global strong solution to the 2D inhomogeneous incompressible magnetohydrodynamic fluids with density-dependent viscosity and vacuum

Abstract In this paper, we investigate an initial boundary value problem for two-dimensional inhomogeneous incompressible MHD system with density-dependent viscosity. First, we establish a blow-up criterion for strong solutions with vacuum. Precisely, the strong solution exists globally if ∥ ∇ μ ( ρ ) ∥ L ∞ ( 0 , T ; L p ) $\|\nabla \mu (\rho )\|_{L^{\infty }(0, T; L^{p})}$ is bounded. Second, we prove the strong solution exists globally (in time) only if ∥ ∇ μ ( ρ 0 ) ∥ L p $\|\nabla \mu (\rho _{0})\|_{L^{p}}$ is suitably small, even the presence of vacuum is permitted