Global Regularity of the 3D Axi-Symmetric Navier–Stokes Equations with Anisotropic Data

In this paper, we study the 3D axisymmetric Navier–Stokes equations with swirl. We prove the global regularity of the 3D Navier–Stokes equations for a family of large anisotropic initial data. Moreover, we obtain a global bound of the solution in terms of its initial data in some L ^p norm. Our results also reveal some interesting dynamic growth behavior of the solution due to the interaction between the angular velocity and the angular vorticity fields.     

Gevrey Regularity for the Attractor of the 3D Navier–Stokes–Voight Equations

Recently, the Navier–Stokes–Voight (NSV) model of viscoelastic incompressible fluid has been proposed as a regularization of the 3D Navier–Stokes equations for the purpose of direct numerical simulations. In this work, we prove that the global attractor of the 3D NSV equations, driven by an analytic forcing, consists of analytic functions. A consequence of this result is that the spectrum of the solutions of the 3D NSV system, lying on the global attractor, have exponentially decaying tail, despite the fact that the equations behave like a damped hyperbolic system, rather than the parabolic one. This result provides additional evidence that the 3D NSV with the small regularization parameter enjoys similar statistical properties as the 3D Navier–Stokes equations. Finally, we calculate a lower bound for the exponential decaying scale—the scale at which the spectrum of the solution start to decay exponentially, and establish a similar bound for the steady state solutions of the 3D NSV and 3D Navier–Stokes equations. Our estimate coincides with the known bounds for the smallest length scale of the solutions of the 3D Navier–Stokes equations, established earlier by Doering and Titi.      

Optimal Time Decay of Navier–Stokes Equations with Low Regularity Initial Data

In this paper, we study the optimal time decay rate of isentropic Navier–Stokes equations under the low regularity assumptions about initial data. In the previous works about optimal time decay rate, the initial data need to be small in H~([N/2]+2)(R~N). Our work combined negative Besov space estimates and the conventional energy estimates in Besov space framework which is developed by Danchin. Through our methods, we can get optimal time decay rate with initial data just small in B~(N/2-1,N/2+1)∩B~(N/2-1,N/2) and belong to some negative Besov space(need not to be small). Finally,combining the recent results in [25] with our methods, we only need the initial data to be small in homogeneous Besov spaceB~(N/2-2,N/2)∩B~(N/2-1) to get the optimal time decay rate in space L~2.     

Logarithmically Improved Regularity Conditions for the 3D Navier–Stokes Equations

In this paper, we consider two new regularity criteria for the 3D Navier–Stokes equations involving partial components of the velocity in multiplier spaces. It is proved that if the horizontal velocity ? = (u ₁,u ₂,0) satisfies $$\int_{0}^{T} \frac{\|\tilde{u}\|_{\dot{X}_{r}}^{\frac{2}{1-r}}}{1+ln(e + \|u(t,.)\|_{\infty})}{\rm d}t < \infty, \quad r \in[0, 1),$$ or the horizontal gradient field satisfies $$\int_{0}^{T}\frac{\|\nabla_{h}\tilde{u}\|_{\dot{X}_{r}}^{\frac{2}{2-r}}}{1 + ln(e + \|u(t,.)\|_{\infty})}{\rm d}t < \infty, \quad r \in[0, 1],$$ then the local strong solution remains smooth on [0, T].     

Equations of the boundary layer for a modified Navier–Stokes system

We consider a system of equations of the boundary layer derived from the hydrodynamical system for generalized Newtonian media. This modification of the Navier–Stokes system was proposed by O. A. Ladyzhenskaya in connection with the uniqueness of the solution of this system in general. We prove the existence and the uniqueness of a solution for the problem of continuation of the boundary layer and consider some questions connected with the separation of the boundary layer.     

Global Solutions of Multidimensional Approximate Navier–Stokes Equations of a Viscous Gas

Considering the simplified Navier–Stokes equations for the motion of a viscous gas under the adherence condition, we define a weak solution and prove an existence theorem by means of a priori estimates.     

Global L~2 Stability of the Nonhomogeneous Incompressible Navier–Stokes Equations

In this paper, the problem of the global L^2 stability for large solutions to the nonhomogeneous incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in 3D bounded or unbounded domains is studied. By delicate energy estimates and under the suitable condition of the large solutions, it shows that if the initial data are small perturbation on those of the known strong solutions, the large solutions are stable.     

Global well-posedness of the velocity–vorticity-Voigt model of the 3D Navier–Stokes equations

The velocity–vorticity formulation of the 3D Navier–Stokes equations was recently found to give excellent numerical results for flows with strong rotation. In this work, we propose a new regularization of the 3D Navier–Stokes equations, which we call the 3D velocity–vorticity-Voigt (VVV) model, with a Voigt regularization term added to momentum equation in velocity–vorticity form, but with no regularizing term in the vorticity equation. We prove global well-posedness and regularity of this model under periodic boundary conditions. We prove convergence of the model's velocity and vorticity to their counterparts in the 3D Navier–Stokes equations as the Voigt modeling parameter tends to zero. We prove that the curl of the model's velocity converges to the model vorticity (which is solved for directly), as the Voigt modeling parameter tends to zero. Finally, we provide a criterion for finite-time blow-up of the 3D Navier–Stokes equations based on this inviscid regularization.     

A Regularity Criterion for the Navier–Stokes Equations

We prove that a weak solution u = (u ¹, u ², u ³) to the Navier–Stokes equations is strong, if any two components of u satisfy Prodi–Ohyama–Serrin's criterion. As a local regularity criterion, we prove u is bounded locally if any two components of the velocity lie in L ^{6, ∞}.     

On Energy Cascades in the Forced 3D Navier–Stokes Equations

We show—in the framework of physical scales and \((K_1,K_2)\)-averages—that Kolmogorov’s dissipation law combined with the smallness condition on a Taylor length scale is sufficient to guarantee energy cascades in the forced Navier–Stokes equations. Moreover, in the periodic case we establish restrictive scaling laws—in terms of Grashof number—for kinetic energy, energy flux, and energy dissipation rate. These are used to improve our sufficient condition for forced cascades in physical scales.     

On Boundary Regularity of the Navier–Stokes Equations

Abstract

We study boundary regularity of weak solutions of the Navier–Stokes equations in the half-space in dimension n ≥ 3. We prove that a weak solution u which is locally in the class L ^{p, q} with 2/p + n/q = 1, q > n near boundary is Hölder continuous up to the boundary. Our main tool is a pointwise estimate for the fundamental solution of the Stokes system, which is of independent interest.     

Ergodicity for the 3D stochastic Navier–Stokes equations

We consider the Kolmogorov equation associated with the stochastic Navier–Stokes equations in 3D, we prove existence of a solution in the strict or mild sense. The method consists in finding several estimates for the solutions u_m of the Galerkin approximations of u and their derivatives. These estimates are obtained with the help of an auxiliary Kolmogorov equation with a very irregular negative potential. Although uniqueness is not proved, we are able to construct a transition semigroup for the 3D Navier–Stokes equations. Furthermore, this transition semigroup has a unique invariant measure, which is ergodic and strongly mixing.     

Existence and Regularity of the Pressure for the Stochastic Navier–Stokes Equations

We prove, on one hand, that for a convenient body force with values in the distribution space (H ^-1(D)) ^d , where D is the geometric domain of the fluid, there exist a velocity u and a pressure p solution of the stochastic Navier–Stokes equation in dimension 2, 3 or 4. On the other hand, we prove that, for a body force with values in the dual space V of the divergence free subspace V of (H ¹ ₀(D)) ^d , in general it is not possible to solve the stochastic Navier–Stokes equations. More precisely, although such body forces have been considered, there is no topological space in which Navier–Stokes equations could be meaningful for them.     

Localized Anisotropic Regularity Conditions for the Navier–Stokes Equations

We establish a sufficient regularity condition for local solutions of the Navier–Stokes equations. For a suitable weak solution (u, p) on a domain D we prove that if \(\partial _3 u\) belongs to the space \(L_t^{s_0}L_x^{r_0}(D)\) where \(2/s_0 + 3/r_0 \le 2 \) and \(9/4 \le r_0\le 5/2\), then the solution is Hölder continuous in D.     

A Hopf-Bifurcation Theorem for the Vorticity Formulation of the Navier–Stokes Equations in ℝ3

We prove a Hopf-bifurcation theorem for the vorticity formulation of the Navier–Stokes equations in ?³ in case of spatially localized external forcing. The difficulties are due to essential spectrum up to the imaginary axis for all values of the bifurcation parameter which a priori no longer allows to reduce the problem to a finite dimensional one.     

On the uniqueness of weak solutions for the 3D Navier–Stokes equations

In this paper, we improve some known uniqueness results of weak solutions for the 3D Navier–Stokes equations. The proof uses the Fourier localization technique and the losing derivative estimates.