The energy equality and regularity results for the stationary Navier-Stokes equations on the exterior of a rotating obstacle (Q2414209): Difference between revisions

The author investigates the following stationary Navier-Stokes system \[ \begin{cases} -\nu \Delta u + (u\cdot \nabla)u - (\omega \wedge x)\cdot \nabla u + \omega \wedge u + \nabla p = f & \ \ \text{ in } \Omega, \\ \operatorname{div} u=0 & \ \ \text{ in } \Omega, \\ u=\omega \wedge x & \ \ \text{ on } \partial \Omega , \\ u(x)\rightarrow ke_1 & \ \ \text{ as } |x|\rightarrow \infty , \end{cases} \] where $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^3$ is the exterior of a rotating rigid body, which ia also moving in the direction of the axis of rotation with constant velocity $-ke_1$. Here $f= div \, F$, where $F\in L^2(\Omega)$. The existence of at least one weak solution satisfying $\nabla u \in L^2(\Omega)$ follows by the classical Galerkin approximation. Using the additional regularity property $u-ke_1\in L^4(\Omega)$, the author shows that the generalized energy equality is valid, so the uniqueness of the weak solutions follows for small data.