On the existence of the weak solution with local energy inequality to the 3-D inhomogeneous incompressible Navier–Stokes equations

In this paper, we show there exists a weak solution to the 3-D inhomogeneous incompressible Navier–Stokes equations satisfying in addition the local energy inequality. The same result in the homogeneous incompressible case was described in [1, Theorem 3.2].     

Stability behaviors of Leray weak solutions to the three-dimensional Navier–Stokes equations

This paper is devoted to the investigation of stability behaviors of Leray weak solutions to the three-dimensional Navier–Stokes equations. For a Leray weak solution of the Navier–Stokes equations in a critical Besov space, it is shown that the Leray weak solution is uniformly stable with respect to a small perturbation of initial velocity and external forcing. If the perturbation is not small, the perturbed weak solution converges asymptotically to the original weak solution as the time tends to the infinity. Additionally, an energy equality and weak–strong uniqueness for the three-dimensional Navier–Stokes equations are derived. The findings are mainly based on the estimations of the nonlinear term of the Navier–Stokes equations in a Besov space framework, the use of special test functions and the energy estimate method.     

On the maximal space analyticity radius for the 3D Navier–Stokes equations and energy cascades

In this paper, we study the maximal space analyticity radius associated with a regular solution of the Navier–Stokes equations and its connection to turbulence. In order to do this, we introduce a new auxiliary ODE for the evolution of the analyticity radius involving the Gevrey class norms. We further show that jumps in the maximal space analyticity radius are an intermittent event and are connected to inverse energy cascade. Our approach also leads to a new type of global regularity test for the Navier–Stokes equation.     

On the low Mach number limit of compressible flows in exterior moving domains

We study the incompressible limit of solutions to the compressible barotropic Navier–Stokes system in the exterior of a bounded domain undergoing a simple translation. The problem is reformulated using a change of coordinates to fixed exterior domain. Using the spectral analysis of the wave propagator, the dispersion of acoustic waves is proved by means of the RAGE theorem. The solution to the incompressible Navier–Stokes equations is identified as a limit.     

On the existence of global weak solutions to the Navier–Stokes equations for viscous compressible and heat conducting fluids

The purpose of this work is to investigate the problem of global in time existence of sequences of weak solutions to the Navier–Stokes equations for viscous compressible and heat conducting fluids. A class of density and temperature dependent viscosity and conductivity coefficients is considered. This result extends P.-L. Lions' work in 1993 [P.-L. Lions, Compacité des solutions des équations de Navier–Stokes compressibles isentropiques, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Sér. I 317 (1993) 115–120] restricted to barotropic flows, and provides weak solutions “à la Leray” to the full compressible model that includes internal energy evolution equation with thermal conduction effects. A partial answer is therefore given to this currently widely open problem, described for instance in P.-L. Lions' book [P.-L. Lions, Mathematical Topics in Fluid Dynamics, vol. 2, Compressible Models, Oxford Science Publication, Oxford, 1998]. The proof uses the generalization to the temperature dependent case, of a new mathematical entropy equality derived by the authors in [D. Bresch, B. Desjardins, Some diffusive capillary models of Korteweg type, C. R. Acad. Sci., Paris, Section Mécanique 332 (11) (2004) 881–886]. The construction scheme of approximate solutions, using on additional regularizing effects such as capillarity, is provided in [D. Bresch, B. Desjardins, On the construction of approximate solutions for 2D viscous shallow water model and for compressible Navier–Stokes models, J. Math. Pures Appl. 86 (4) (2006) 362–368], and allows to use the stability arguments of this paper.     

Zero-viscosity-capillarity limit to the planar rarefaction wave for the 2D compressible Navier–Stokes–Korteweg equations

We shall consider the two-dimensional (2D) isentropic Navier–Stokes–Korteweg equations which are used to model compressible fluids with internal capillarity. Formally, the 2D isentropic Navier–Stokes–Korteweg equations converge, as the viscosity and the capillarity vanish, to the corresponding 2D inviscid Euler equations, and we do justify this for the case that the corresponding 2D inviscid Euler equations admit a planar rarefaction wave solution. More precisely, it is proved that there exists a family of smooth solutions for the 2D isentropic compressible Navier–Stokes–Korteweg equations converging to the planar rarefaction wave solution with arbitrary strength for the 2D Euler equations. A uniform convergence rate is obtained in terms of the viscosity coefficient and the capillarity away from the initial time. The key ingredients of our proof are the re-scaling technique and energy estimate, in which we also introduce the hyperbolic wave to recover the physical viscosities and capillarity of the inviscid rarefaction wave profile.     

Vanishing viscosity and Debye-length limit to rarefaction wave with vacuum for the 1D bipolar Navier–Stokes–Poisson equation

In this paper, we consider the one-dimensional (1D) compressible bipolar Navier–Stokes–Poisson equations. We know that when the viscosity coefficient and Debye length are zero in the compressible bipolar Navier–Stokes–Poisson equations, we have the compressible Euler equations. Under the case that the compressible Euler equations have a rarefaction wave with one-side vacuum state, we can construct a sequence of the approximation solution to the one-dimensional bipolar Navier–Stokes–Poisson equations with well-prepared initial data, which converges to the above rarefaction wave with vacuum as the viscosity and the Debye length tend to zero. Moreover, we also obtain the uniform convergence rate. The results are proved by a scaling argument and elaborate energy estimate.     

The existence of a random attractor for the three dimensional damped Navier–Stokes equations with additive noise

This article is concerned with the asymptotical behavior of solutions for the three-dimensional damped Navier–Stokes equations with additive noise. Due to the shortage of the existence proof of the existence of random absorbing sets in a more regular phase space, we cannot obtain some kind of compactness of the cocycle associated with the three-dimensional damped Navier–Stokes equations with additive noise by the Sobolev compactness embedding theorem. In this paper, we prove the existence of a random attractor for the three-dimensional damped Navier–Stokes equations with additive noise by verifying the pullback flattening property.     

Navier–Stokes–Voigt Equations with Memory in 3D Lacking Instantaneous Kinematic Viscosity

We consider a Navier–Stokes–Voigt fluid model where the instantaneous kinematic viscosity has been completely replaced by a memory term incorporating hereditary effects, in presence of Ekman damping. Unlike the classical Navier–Stokes–Voigt system, the energy balance involves the spatial gradient of the past history of the velocity rather than providing an instantaneous control on the high modes. In spite of this difficulty, we show that our system is dissipative in the dynamical systems sense and even possesses regular global and exponential attractors of finite fractal dimension. Such features of asymptotic well-posedness in absence of instantaneous high modes dissipation appear to be unique within the realm of dynamical systems arising from fluid models.     

Global well-posedness of strong solutions to the two-dimensional barotropic compressible Navier–Stokes equations with vacuum

The aim of this paper is to establish the global well-posedness and large-time asymptotic behavior of the strong solution to the Cauchy problem of the two-dimensional compressible Navier–Stokes equations with vacuum. It is proved that if the shear viscosity \({\mu}\) is a positive constant and the bulk viscosity \({\lambda}\) is the power function of the density, that is, \({\lambda=\rho^{\beta}}\) with \({\beta \in [0,1],}\) then the Cauchy problem of the two-dimensional compressible Navier–Stokes equations admits a unique global strong solution provided that the initial data are of small total energy. This result can be regarded as the extension of the well-posedness theory of classical compressible Navier–Stokes equations [such as Huang et al. (Commun Pure Appl Math 65:549–585, 2012) and Li and Xin (http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.1673) respectively]. Furthermore, the large-time behavior of the strong solution to the Cauchy problem of the two-dimensional barotropic compressible Navier–Stokes equations had been also obtained.     

A note on statistical solutions of the three-dimensional Navier–Stokes equations: The stationary case

Stationary statistical solutions of the three-dimensional Navier–Stokes equations for incompressible fluids are considered. They are a mathematical formalization of the notion of ensemble average for turbulent flows in statistical equilibrium in time. They are also a generalization of the notion of invariant measure to the case of the three-dimensional Navier–Stokes equations, for which a global uniqueness result is not known to exist and a semigroup may not be well-defined in the classical sense. The two classical definitions of stationary statistical solutions are considered and compared, one of them being a particular case of the other and possessing a number of useful properties. Furthermore, the so-called time-average stationary statistical solutions, obtained as generalized limits of time averages of weak solutions as the averaging time goes to infinity are shown to belong to this more restrictive class. A recurrent type result is also obtained for statistical solutions satisfying an accretion condition. Finally, the weak global attractor of the three-dimensional Navier–Stokes equations is considered, and in particular it is shown that there exists a topologically large subset of the weak global attractor which is of full measure with respect to that particular class of stationary statistical solutions and which has a certain regularity property.     

Regularity Criterion for Solutions of Three-Dimensional Turbulent Channel Flows

In this paper we consider the three-dimensional Navier–Stokes equations in infinite channel. We provide a regularity criterion for solutions of the three-dimensional Navier–Stokes equations in terms of the vertical component of the velocity field.     

The regularity criterion for 3D Navier–Stokes equations involving one velocity gradient component

In this article, we establish sufficient conditions for the regularity of solutions of Navier–Stokes equations based on one of the nine entries of the gradient tensor. We improve the recent results of C.S. Cao, E.S. Titi [C.S. Cao, E.S. Titi, Global regularity criterion for the 3D Navier–Stokes equations involving one entry of the velocity gradient tensor, Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 202 (2011) 919–932] and Y. Zhou, M. Pokorný [Y. Zhou, M. Pokorný, On the regularity of the solutions of the Navier–Stokes equations via one velocity component, Nonlinearity 23 (2010) 1097–1107].     

Stability of the superposition of rarefaction wave and contact discontinuity for the non‐isentropic Navier–Stokes–Poisson system

This paper is devoted to the study of the nonlinear stability of the composite wave consisting of a rarefaction wave and a viscous contact discontinuity wave of the non‐isentropic Navier–Stokes–Poisson system with free boundary. We first construct the composite wave through the quasineutral Euler equations and then prove that the composite wave is time asymptotically stable under small perturbations for the corresponding initial‐boundary value problem of the non‐isentropic Navier–Stokes–Poisson system. Only the strength of the viscous contact wave is required to be small. However, the strength of the rarefaction wave can be arbitrarily large. In our analysis, the domain decomposition plays an important role in obtaining the zero‐order energy estimates. By introducing this technique, we successfully overcome the difficulty caused by the critical terms involved with the linear term, which does not satisfy the quasineural assumption for the composite wave. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Sufficient conditions for the regularity of the solutions of the Navier–Stokes equations

In this paper we find sufficient conditions, involving only the pressure, that ensure the regularity of weak solutions to the Navier–Stokes equations. Conditions involving only the pressure were previously obtained in [7,4]. Following a remark in this last reference we improve, in particular, Kaniel's result [7]. Our condition can be seen at the light of the heuristic idea that the pressure behaves similarly to the modulus squared of the velocity. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

The coupling system of Navier–Stokes equations and elastic Navier–Lame equations in a blood vessel

In this paper, the blood flow problem is considered in a blood vessel, and a coupling system of Navier–Stokes equations and linear elastic equations, Navier–Lame equations, in a cylinder with cylindrical elastic shell is given as the governing equations of the problem. We provide two finite element models to simulating the three-dimensional Navier–Stokes equations in the cylinder while the asymptotic expansion method is used to solving the linearly elastic shell equations. Specifically, in order to discrete the Navier–Stokes equations, the dimensional splitting strategy is constructed under the cylinder coordinate system. The spectral method is adopted along the rotation direction while the finite element method is used along the other directions. By using the above strategy, we get a series of two-dimensional-three-components (2D-3C) fluid problems. By introduce the S-coordinate system in E³ and employ the thickness of blood vessel wall as the expanding parameter, the asymptotic expansion method can be established to approximate the solution of the 3D elastic problem. The interface contact conditions can be treated exactly based on the knowledge of tensor analysis. Finally, numerical test shows that our method is reasonable.     

Stability of the rarefaction wave for a coupled compressible Navier‐Stokes/Allen‐Cahn system

In this paper, we are concerned with the large time behavior of solutions to the Cauchy problem for the one dimensional Navier‐Stokes/Allen‐Cahn system. Motivated by the relationship between the Navier‐Stokes/Allen‐Cahn system and the Navier‐Stokes system, we can prove that the solutions to the one‐dimensional compressible Navier‐Stokes/Allen‐Cahn system tend time‐asymptotically to the rarefaction wave, where the strength of the rarefaction wave is not required to be small. The proof is mainly based on a basic energy method.     

Mixing and reacting flow with inflow–outflow boundary conditions

We consider the behaviour of mixing reacting compressible flows with inflow–outflow boundary conditions corresponding to the injection of reactants, fuel and oxidizer in a bounded region. Analytical results on the existence of solutions for small time and data are given in the two-dimensional case, using extensions of the techniques of Valli and Zajaczowski [Navier–Stokes equations for compressible fluids: global existence and qualitative properties of the solutions in the general case, Commun. Math. Phys. 103 (1986), 259–296]. As well, computational results are presented using finite difference methods.     

On a local energy decay estimate of solutions to the hyperbolic type Stokes equations

In this paper, we discuss a local energy decay estimate of solutions to the initial-boundary value problem for the hyperbolic type Stokes equations of incompressible fluid flow in an exterior domain and a perturbed half-space. The equations are linearized version of the hyperbolic Navier–Stokes equations introduced by Racke and Saal [15], which are obtained as a delayed case for the deformation tensor in the incompressible Navier–Stokes equations. Our proof of the local energy decay estimate is based on Dan and Shibata [2]. In [2], they treated the dissipative wave equations in an exterior domain and discussed the local energy decay estimate. Our approach uses the fact that applying the Helmholtz projection to the hyperbolic type Stokes equations, we obtain equations similar to the dissipative wave ones.     

On the global attractor of 2D incompressible turbulence with random forcing

This study revisits bounds on the projection of the global attractor in the energy–enstrophy plane for 2D incompressible turbulence [Dascaliuc, Foias, and Jolly, 2005, 2010]. In addition to providing more elegant proofs of some of the required nonlinear identities, the treatment is extended from the case of constant forcing to the more realistic case of random forcing. Numerical simulations in particular often use a stochastic white-noise forcing to achieve a prescribed mean energy injection rate. The analytical bounds are demonstrated numerically for the case of white-noise forcing.