Micropolar fluid system in a space of distributions and large time behavior (Q884389)

The authors prove an existence result for a linearized micropolar fluid in a space of tempered distributions. The original problem is a coupled system which describes the evolution of the velocity field \(u\) and that of the velocity rotation \(\omega \) of the particles. Both equations involve some Riesz potential \((-\Delta )^{r}\). In the first part of their paper, the authors define the spaces \(PM^{\alpha }\) of tempered distributions \(v\), the Fourier transform \(\widehat{v}\) of which belongs to \(L_{\text{loc}}^{1}(\mathbb{R}^{n})\) and verifies \(\text{ess\,sup}_{\xi \in \mathbb{R}^{n}}| \xi | ^{\alpha}| \widehat{v}(\xi )| <+\infty \). The authors linearize the original problem and using Fourier transform get a system which can be written as \(\partial \widehat{y}/\partial t+A(\xi )\widehat{y}=0\) where \(y=(u,\omega )\) and \(A\) is a \(2\times 2\) linear operator. Having studied the properties of \(A\) and that of its semigroup, the authors introduce the notion of mild solution for this linearized problem. This mild solution is a time-dependent distribution which belongs to an appropriate space and which satisfies an equality involving the semigroup associated to \(A\), the Leray projector on solenoidal vectors and a convolution product. The first main results of the paper prove the existence of global in time mild solution, assuming that the initial data \(u_{0}\) and \(\omega _{0}\) belong to \(PM^{\alpha }\), and some further properties of such mild solutions. The proof of these results are essentially based on functional analysis. In the last part of the paper, the authors prove some decay estimates and an asymptotic stability property for a mild solution, assuming further properties of the initial data \(y_{0}\) and possibly \(u_{0}\).