Convergence of a Brinkman-type penalization for compressible fluid flows

We show convergence of a Brinkman-type penalization of the compressible Navier-Stokes equation. In particular, the existence of weak solutions for the system in domains with boundaries varying in time is established.     

Finite fractal dimension of pullback attractors for non-autonomous 2D Navier–Stokes equations in some unbounded domains

We study the asymptotic behaviour of non-autonomous 2D Navier–Stokes equations in unbounded domains for which a Poincaré inequality holds. In particular, we give sufficient conditions for their pullback attractor to have finite fractal dimension. The existence of pullback attractors in this framework comes from the existence of bounded absorbing sets of pullback asymptotically compact processes [T. Caraballo, G. ?ukaszewicz, J. Real, Pullback attractors for asymptotically compact nonautonomous dynamical systems, Nonlinear Anal. 64 (3) (2006) 484–498]. We show that, under suitable conditions, the method of Lyapunov exponents in [P. Constantin, C. Foias, R. Temam, Attractors representing turbulent flows, Mem. Amer. Math. Soc. 53 (1984) [5]] for the dimension of attractors can be developed in this new context.     

Multilinear estimates for periodic KdV equations, and applications

We prove an endpoint multilinear estimate for the X^s,b spaces associated to the periodic Airy equation. As a consequence we obtain sharp local well-posedness results for periodic generalized KdV equations, as well as some global well-posedness results below the energy norm.     

Singular integrals and a problem on mixing flows

We prove a result related to Bressan's mixing problem. We establish an inequality for the change of Bianchini semi-norms of characteristic functions under the flow generated by a divergence free time dependent vector field. The approach leads to a bilinear singular integral operator for which we prove bounds on Hardy spaces. We include additional observations about the approach and a discrete toy version of Bressan's problem.     

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.     

Characterization of BMO in terms of rearrangement-invariant Banach function spaces

The atomic decomposition of Hardy spaces by atoms defined by rearrangement-invariant Banach function spaces is proved in this paper. Using this decomposition, we obtain the characterizations of BMO and Lipschitz spaces by rearrangement-invariant Banach function spaces. We also provide the sharp function characterization of the rearrangement-invariant Banach function spaces.     

Pullback attractors for a semilinear heat equation on time-varying domains

The existence of a pullback attractor is established for the nonautonomous dynamical system generated by the weak solutions of a semilinear heat equation on time-varying domains with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. It is assumed that the spatial domains Ot in RN are obtained from a bounded base domain O by a C²-diffeomorphism, which is continuously differentiable in the time variable, and are contained, in the past, in a common bounded domain.     

Solutions of the divergence operator on John domains

If Ω⊂Rn is a bounded domain, the existence of solutions of divu=f for f∈Lp(Ω) with vanishing mean value and 1<p<∞, is a basic result in the analysis of the Stokes equations. It is known that the result holds when Ω is a Lipschitz domain and that it is not valid for domains with external cusps.In this paper we prove that the result holds for John domains. Our proof is constructive: the solution u is given by an explicit integral operator acting on f. To prove that we make use of the Calderón-Zygmund singular integral operator theory and the Hardy-Littlewood maximal function.For domains satisfying the separation property introduced in [S. Buckley, P. Koskela, Sobolev-Poincaré implies John, Math. Res. Lett. 2 (5) (1995) 577-593], and 1<p<n, we also prove a converse result, thus characterizing in this case the domains for which a continuous right inverse of the divergence exists. In particular, our result applies to simply connected planar domains because they satisfy the separation property.     

The boundedness of Weyl multiplier on Hardy spaces associated with twisted convolution

In this paper, we will consider the boundedness of Weyl multiplier on Hardy spaces associated with twisted convolution. In order to get our result, we need to give some characterizations of the Hardy space associated with twisted convolution. Including Lusin area integral, Littlewood-Paley g-function.     

Estimates on fractional power dissipative equations in function spaces

We study the fractional power dissipative equations, whose fundamental semigroup is given by e^{−t(−Δ)α} with α>0. By using an argument of duality and interpolation, we extend space-time estimates of the fractional power dissipative equations in Lebesgue spaces to the Hardy spaces and the modulation spaces. These results are substantial extensions of some known results. As applications, we study both local and global well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for the nonlinear fractional power dissipative equation u_t+(−Δ)^αu=|u|^mu for initial data in the modulation spaces.     

Attractors for nonautonomous 2D Navier-Stokes equations with less regular normal forces

First, the existence and structure of uniform attractors in H is proved for nonautonomous 2D Navier-Stokes equations on bounded domain with a new class of distribution forces, termed normal in (see Definition 3.1), which are translation bounded but not translation compact in . Then, the properties of the kernel section are investigated. Last, the fractal dimension is estimated for the kernel sections of the uniform attractors obtained.     

Rigorous Numerics for Partial Differential Equations: The Kuramoto—Sivashinsky Equation

We present a new topological method for the study of the dynamics of dissipative PDEs. The method is based on the concept of the self-consistent a priori bounds, which permit the rigorous justification of the use of Galerkin projections. As a result, we obtain a low-dimensional system of ODEs subject to rigorously controlled small perturbation from the neglected modes. To these ODEs we apply the Conley index to obtain information about the dynamics of the PDE under consideration. We applied the method to the Kuramoto—Sivashinsky equation We obtained a computer-assisted proof of the existence of several fixed points for various values of ν > 0 . May 10, 2000. Final version received: March 9, 2001.