Uniform global attractors for the nonautonomous 3D Navier–Stokes equations

We obtain the existence and the structure of the weak uniform (with respect to the initial time) global attractor and construct a trajectory attractor for the 3D Navier–Stokes equations (NSE) with a fixed time-dependent force satisfying a translation boundedness condition. Moreover, we show that if the force is normal and every complete bounded solution is strongly continuous, then the uniform global attractor is strong, strongly compact, and solutions converge strongly toward the trajectory attractor. Our method is based on taking a closure of the autonomous evolutionary system without uniqueness, whose trajectories are solutions to the nonautonomous 3D NSE. The established framework is general and can also be applied to other nonautonomous dissipative partial differential equations for which the uniqueness of solutions might not hold. It is not known whether previous frameworks can also be applied in such cases as we indicate in open problems related to the question of uniqueness of the Leray–Hopf weak solutions.     

Interface boundary value problem for the Navier-Stokes equations in thin two-layer domains

We study a system of 3D Navier-Stokes equations in a two-layer parallelepiped-like domain with an interface coupling of the velocities and mixed (free/periodic) boundary condition on the external boundary. The system under consideration can be viewed as a simplified model describing some features of the mesoscale interaction of the ocean and atmosphere. In case when our domain is thin (of order ε), we prove the global existence of the strong solutions corresponding to a large set of initial data and forcing terms (roughly, of order ε^−2/3). We also give some results concerning the large time dynamics of the solutions. In particular, we prove a spatial regularity of the global weak attractor.     

Asymptotic regularity conditions for the strong convergence towards weak limit sets and weak attractors of the 3D Navier-Stokes equations

The asymptotic behavior of solutions of the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations is considered on bounded smooth domains with no-slip boundary conditions and on periodic domains. Asymptotic regularity conditions are presented to ensure that the convergence of a Leray-Hopf weak solution to its weak ω-limit set (weak in the sense of the weak topology of the space H of square-integrable divergence-free velocity fields with the appropriate boundary conditions) are achieved also in the strong topology. It is proved that the weak ω-limit set is strongly compact and strongly attracts the corresponding solution if and only if all the solutions in the weak ω-limit set are continuous in the strong topology of H. Corresponding results for the strong convergence towards the weak global attractor of Foias and Temam are also presented. In this case, it is proved that the weak global attractor is strongly compact and strongly attracts the weak solutions, uniformly with respect to uniformly bounded sets of weak solutions, if and only if all the global weak solutions in the weak global attractor are strongly continuous in H.     

多值半流理论及其在三维Navier-Stokes方程中的应用

利用多值半流方法研究三维有界区域上Navier-Stokes方程的全局吸引子,证得了多值半流的一些性质,并将这些性质应用于三维Navier-Stokes方程,得出了弱解的几种全局吸引子.从而表明在三维情形,通过多值半流来研究Navier-Stokes方程的全局吸引子是可行的.     

Global Attractors and Determining Modes for the 3D Navier-Stokes-Voight Equations

The authors investigate the long-term dynamics of the three-dimensional Navier- Stokes-Voight model of viscoelastic incompressible fluid. Specifically, upper bounds for the number of determining modes are derived for the 3D Navier-Stokes-Voight equations and for the dimension of a global attractor of a semigroup generated by these equations. Viewed from the numerical analysis point of view the authors consider the Navier-Stokes-Voight model as a non-viscous （inviscid） regularization of the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations. Furthermore, it is also shown that the weak solutions of the Navier-Stokes- Voight equations converge, in the appropriate norm, to the weak solutions of the inviscid simplified Bardina model, as the viscosity coefficient v →0.     

非线性Sobolev-Galpern方程的有限维整体吸引子

本文研究非线性Sobolev-Galpern方程解的渐近性态．首先证明了该方程在H^2(Ω)∩H0^1(Ω)中整体弱吸引子的存在性，然后利用一个能量方程证明了整体弱吸引子实际上是整体强吸引子，建立了整体吸引子的有限维性．     

Weak and strong attractors for the 3D Navier-Stokes system

We study in this paper the asymptotic behaviour of the weak solutions of the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations. On the one hand, using the weak topology of the usual phase space H (of square integrable divergence free functions) we prove the existence of a weak attractor in both autonomous and nonautonomous cases. On the other, we obtain a conditional result about the existence of the strong attractor, which is valid under an unproved hypothesis. Also, with this hypothesis we obtain continuous weak solutions with respect to the strong topology of H.     

Attractors for the Long-short Wave Equations

In the present paper, we study the long time behaviour of solutions for the long-short wave equations with zero order dissipation. We first construct the global weak attractor for this system in H²_{per} × H¹_{per}. And then by exact analysis of two energy equations, we show that the global weak at attractor is actually the global strong attractor in H²_{per}.     

Pullback attractors for a class of extremal solutions of the 3D Navier-Stokes system

In this paper we construct a dynamical process (in general, multivalued) generated by the set of solutions of an optimal control problem for the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes system. We prove the existence of a pullback attractor for such multivalued process. Also, we establish the existence of a uniform global attractor containing the pullback attractor. Moreover, under the unproved assumption that strong globally defined solutions of the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes system exist, which guaranties the existence of a global attractor for the corresponding multivalued semiflow, we show that the pullback attractor of the process coincides with the global attractor of the semiflow.     

GLOBAL SOLUTIONS FOR SOME OLDROYD MODELS OF NON-NEWTONIAN FLOWS

The authors consider here some Oldroyd models of non-Newtonian flows consisting of a strong coupling between incompressible Navier-Stokes equations and some transport equations. It is proved that there exist global weak solutiosn for general initial conditions. The existence proof relies upon showing the propagation in time of the compactness of solutions.     

Finite Dimensional Behavior for Forced Nonlinear Sobolev-Galpern Equations

This paper deals with the asymptotic behavior of solutions for the nonlinear Sobolev-Galpernequations.We first show the existence of the global weak attractor in H~2(Ω)∩H_0~1(Ω) for the equations.Andthen by an energy equation we prove that the global weak attractor is actually the global strong attractor.Thefinite-dimensionality of the global attractor is also established.     

On weighted-norm estimates for nonstationary incompressible Navier-Stokes flows in a 3D exterior domain

We study the time-decay of weighted norms of weak and strong solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations in a 3D exterior domain. Moment estimates for weak solutions and weighted Lq-estimates for strong solutions are deduced, both of which seem to be optimal. The relation is discussed between the space-time decay and the vanishing of the total net force exerted by the fluid to the body. A class of initial data is given so that the total net force associated to the corresponding fluid flows does not vanish.     

Global Regularity for the 2D Magneto-Micropolar Equations with Partial Dissipation

This paper studies the global existence and regularity of classical solutions to the 2D incompressible magneto-micropolar equations with partial dissipation. The magneto-micropolar equations model the motion of electrically conducting micropolar fluids in the presence of a magnetic field. When there is only partial dissipation, the global regularity problem can be quite difficult. We are able to single out three special partial dissipation cases and establish the global regularity for each case. As special consequences, the 2D Navier-Stokes equations, the 2D magnetohydrodynamic equations, and the 2D micropolar equations with several types of partial dissipation always possess global classical solutions. The proofs of our main results rely on anisotropic Sobolev type inequalities and suitable combination and cancellation of terms.     

Global well-posedness for the dynamical Q-tensor model of liquid crystals

We consider a complex fluid modeling nematic liquid crystal flows, which is described by a system coupling Navier-Stokes equations with a parabolic Q-tensor system. We first prove the global existence of weak solutions in dimension three. Furthermore, the global well-posedness of strong solutions is studied with sufficiently large viscosity of fluid. Finally, we show a continuous dependence result on the initial data which directly yields the weak-strong uniqueness of solutions.     

Global existence of weak and classical solutions for the Navier-Stokes-Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equations

We consider a system coupling the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations to the Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation. The coupling arises from a drag force exerted by each other. We establish existence of global weak solutions for the system in two and three dimensions. Furthermore, we obtain the existence and uniqueness result of global smooth solutions for dimension two. In case of three dimensions, we also prove that strong solutions exist globally in time for the Vlasov-Stokes system.     

Attractivity,multistability, and bifurcation in delayed Hopfieldʼs model with non-monotonic feedback

For a system of delayed neural networks of Hopfield type, we deal with the study of global attractivity, multistability, and bifurcations. In general, we do not assume monotonicity conditions in the activation functions. For some architectures of the network and for some families of activation functions, we get optimal results on global attractivity. Our approach relies on a link between a system of functional differential equations and a finite-dimensional discrete dynamical system. For it, we introduce the notion of strong attractor for a discrete dynamical system, which is more restrictive than the usual concept of attractor when the dimension of the system is higher than one. Our principal result shows that a strong attractor of a discrete map gives a globally attractive equilibrium of a corresponding system of delay differential equations. Our abstract setting is not limited to applications in systems of neural networks; we illustrate its use in an equation with distributed delay motivated by biological models. We also obtain some results for neural systems with variable coefficients.     

Global existence of strong solutions of Navier-Stokes equations with non-Newtonian potential for one-dimensional isentropic compressible fluids

The aim of this paper is to discuss the global existence and uniqueness of strong solution for a class of the isentropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations with non-Newtonian in one-dimensional bounded intervals. We prove two global existence results on strong solutions of the isentropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations. The first result shows only the existence, and the second one shows the existence and uniqueness result based on the first result, but the uniqueness requires some compatibility condition.     

Global attractors for small samples and germs of 3D Navier–Stokes equations

We prove the existence of a global attractor for the generalized semiflow (in the sense of J.M. Ball) on the space of small samples of solutions to the 3D incompressible Navier–Stokes equations. This way to overcome the possible nonuniqueness of solutions is less radical than that of G. Sell and does not provide unique solutions. On the other hand, the existence of the global attractor does not need the unproven hypothesis of continuity of solutions required by Ball. The extension of this approach to the space of germs of solutions is also discussed.     

Global well-posedness for the dynamical <Emphasis Type="Italic">Q</Emphasis>-tensor model of liquid crystals

We consider a complex fluid modeling nematic liquid crystal flows, which is described by a system coupling Navier-Stokes equations with a parabolic Q-tensor system. We first prove the global existence of weak solutions in dimension three. Furthermore, the global well-posedness of strong solutions is studied with sufficiently large viscosity of fluid. Finally, we show a continuous dependence result on the initial data which directly yields the weak-strong uniqueness of solutions.