Reducing slip boundary value problems from the half to the whole space. Applications to inviscid limits and to non-Newtonian fluids (Q626160)

The authors study the boundary value problem in incompressible fluid mechanics in domains with flat boundary (typically half-space). They assume a slip boundary condition of the type \(u\cdot n = 0\) and \(t\times n = 0\) with velocity field \(u\) and stress vector \(t\). The latter condition is replaced by \(\omega \times n =0\) with vorticity \(\omega = \text{curl}\, u\). In case of a flat boundary, both conditions are equivalent, in case of a curved boundary, they differ by lower order terms. The authors study conditions on the function space \(X\) (containing divergence-free functions) under which the problem in the half-space is equivalent with the initial value problem in the full space. These results are applied for the vanishing viscosity limit in case of the Navier--Stokes to the Euler equations limit and on certain problems for shear thickening and shear thinning power law models.