In this paper, we give a rigorous justification for the derivation of the primitive equations with only horizontal viscosity and magnetic diffusivity (PEHM) as the small aspect ratio limit of the incompressible three-dimensional scaled horizontal viscous magnetohydrodynamics (SHMHD) equations. Choosing an aspect ratio parameter ε∈(0,∞) , we consider the case that if the orders of the horizontal and vertical viscous coefficients µ and ν are μ=O(1) and ν=O(εα) , and the orders of magnetic diffusion coefficients κ and σ are κ=O(1) and σ=O(εα) , with α > 2, then the limiting system is the PEHM as ɛ goes to zero. For H1 -initial data, we prove that the global weak solutions of the SHMHD equations converge strongly to the local-in-time strong solutions of the PEHM, as ɛ tends to zero. For H1 -initial data with additional regularity (∂zA~0,∂zB~0)∈Lp(Ω)(2<p<∞) , we slightly improve the well-posed result in Cao et al (2017 J. Funct. Anal. 272 4606–41) to extend the local-in-time strong convergences to the global-in-time one. For H2 -initial data, we show that the global-in-time strong solutions of the SHMHD equations converge strongly to the global-in-time strong solutions of the PEHM, as ɛ goes to zero. Moreover, the rate of convergence is of the order O(εγ/2) , where γ=min{2,α−2} with α∈(2,∞) . It should be noted that in contrast to the case α > 2, the case α = 2 has been investigated by Du and Li in (2022 arXiv:2208.01985), in which they consider the primitive equations with magnetic field (PEM) and the rate of global-in-time convergences is of the order O(ε) .
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