On the inviscid limit of the three dimensional incompressible chemotaxis-Navier–Stokes equations

In this paper, we study the inviscid limit of the 3D chemotaxis-Navier–Stokes equations and establish the convergence rate of the inviscid limit for vanishing diffusion.     

The incompressible limit of the full Navier–Stokes–Fourier system on domains with rough boundaries

We study the incompressible limit of the full Navier–Stokes–Fourier system on condition that the boundary of the spatial domain oscillates with the amplitude and wave length proportional to the Mach number. Assuming the fluid satisfies the complete slip boundary conditions on the oscillating boundary, we identify the asymptotic limit, and, in particular, establish strong (pointwise) convergence of the velocities towards a solenoidal vector field.     

Periodic solutions of the Navier–Stokes equations with inhomogeneous boundary conditions

We show the existence of time periodic solutions of the Navier–Stokes equations in bounded domains of \mathbb R³{\mathbb R^3} with inhomogeneous boundary conditions in the strong and weak sense. In particular, for weak solutions, we deal with more generalized conditions on the boundary data for Leray’s problem.     

Solutions of the Navier–Stokes equations with various types of boundary conditions

In this paper we consider the initial boundary value problem of the Navier–Stokes system with various types of boundary conditions. We study the global-in-time existence and uniqueness of a solution of this system. In particular, suppose that the problem is solvable with some given data (the initial velocity and the external body force). We prove that there exists a unique solution for data which are small perturbations of the previous ones.     

Derivation of Prandtl boundary layer equations for the incompressible Navier–Stokes equations in a curved domain

The proposal of this note is to derive the equations of boundary layers in the small viscosity limit for the two-dimensional incompressible Navier–Stokes equations defined in a curved bounded domain with the non-slip boundary condition. By using curvilinear coordinate system in a neighborhood of boundary, and the multi-scale analysis we deduce that the leading profiles of boundary layers of the incompressible flows in a bounded domain still satisfy the classical Prandtl equations when the viscosity goes to zero, which are the same as for the flows defined in the half space.     

The incompressible Navier–Stokes limit of the Boltzmann equation for hard cutoff potentials

The present paper proves that all limit points of sequences of renormalized solutions of the Boltzmann equation in the limit of small, asymptotically equivalent Mach and Knudsen numbers are governed by Leray solutions of the Navier–Stokes equations. This convergence result holds for hard cutoff potentials in the sense of H. Grad, and therefore completes earlier results by the same authors [Invent. Math. 155 (2004) 81–161] for Maxwell molecules.     

Analysis of the Yosida method for the incompressible Navier–Stokes equations

The Yosida method was introduced in (Quarteroni et al., to appear) for the numerical approximation of the incompressible unsteady Navier–Stokes equations. From the algebraic viewpoint, it can be regarded as an inexact factorization of the matrix arising from the space and time discretization of the problem. However, its differential interpretation resides on an elliptic stabilization of the continuity equation through the Yosida regularization of the Laplacian (see (Brezis, 1983, Ciarlet and Lions, 1991)). The motivation of this method as well as an extensive numerical validation were given in (Quarteroni et al., to appear).In this paper we carry out the analysis of this scheme. In particular, we consider a first-order time advancing unsplit method. In the case of the Stokes problem, we prove unconditional stability and moreover that the splitting error introduced by the Yosida scheme does not affect the overall accuracy of the solution, which remains linear with respect to the time step. Some numerical experiments, for both the Stokes and Navier–Stokes equations, are presented in order to substantiate our theoretical results.     

Global well-posedness of the three dimensional incompressible anisotropic Navier–Stokes system

In this paper, we study the global well-posed problem for the three dimensional incompressible anisotropic Navier–Stokes system (ANS) with initial data in the scaling invariant Besov–Sobolev type spaces. We prove that (ANS) has a unique global solution provided that the initial vertical velocity is large while initial horizontal data are sufficiently small compared with the horizontal viscosity. In particular, our result implies the global well-posedness of (ANS) with highly oscillating initial data.     

Local kinetic energy and singularities of the incompressible Navier–Stokes equations

We study the partial regularity problem of the incompressible Navier–Stokes equations. A reverse Hölder inequality of velocity gradient with increasing support is obtained under the condition that a scaled functional corresponding the local kinetic energy is uniformly bounded. As an application, we give a new bound for the Hausdorff dimension and the Minkowski dimension of singular set when weak solutions v belong to $L^{\infty }(0,T;L^{3,w}({\mathbb{R}}^3))$ where $L^{3,w}({\mathbb{R}}^3)$ denotes the standard weak Lebesgue space.     

Feedback stabilization of 2D Navier–Stokes equations with Navier slip boundary conditions

We study the local exponential stabilizability with internally distributed feedback controllers for the incompressible 2D-Navier–Stokes equations with Navier slip boundary conditions. These controllers are localized in a subdomain and take values in a finite-dimensional space.     

On the well-posedness of 3-D inhomogeneous incompressible Navier–Stokes equations with variable viscosity

In this paper, we mainly study the well-posedness for the 3-D inhomogeneous incompressible Navier–Stokes equations with variable viscosity. With some smallness assumption on the BMO-norm of the initial density, we first get the local well-posedness of (1.1) in the critical Besov spaces. Moreover, if the viscosity coefficient is a constant, we can extend this local solution to be a global one. Our theorem implies that we have successfully extended the integrability index p of the initial velocity which has been obtained by Abidi, Gui and Zhang in [3], Burtea in [8] and Zhai and Yin in [32] to approach the ideal one i.e. $1<p<6$. The main novelty of this work is to apply the CRW theorem obtained by Coifman, Rochberg, Weiss in [11] to get a new a priori estimate for an elliptic equation with variable coefficients. The uniqueness of the solution also relies on a Lagrangian approach as in [16], [17], [18].     

Incompressible limit of the degenerate quantum compressible Navier–Stokes equations with general initial data

In this paper we study the incompressible limit of the degenerate quantum compressible Navier–Stokes equations in a periodic domain ${\mathbb{T}}^3$ and the whole space ${\mathbb{R}}^3$ with general initial data. In the periodic case, by applying the refined relative entropy method and carrying out the detailed analysis on the oscillations of velocity, we prove rigorously that the gradient part of the weak solutions (velocity) of the degenerate quantum compressible Navier–Stokes equations converge to the strong solution of the incompressible Navier–Stokes equations. Our results improve considerably the ones obtained by Yang, Ju and Yang [25] where only the well-prepared initial data case is considered. While for the whole space case, thanks to the Strichartz's estimates of linear wave equations, we can obtain the convergence of the weak solutions of the degenerate quantum compressible Navier–Stokes equations to the strong solution of the incompressible Navier–Stokes/Euler equations with a linear damping term. Moreover, the convergence rates are also given.