The Minkowski dimension of interior singular points in the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations (Q2630900)

The set of singular points of the suitable weak solutions to the Cauchy problem \[ \begin{aligned} \frac{\partial u}{\partial t}-\Delta & u+(u\cdot\nabla) u+\nabla p=0,\quad \operatorname{div} u=0 \quad x\in \Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^3,\quad t\in(0,T), \\ & u(x,0)=u_0\quad x\in \Omega. \end{aligned} \] is studied in the paper. The suitable weak solution satisfies to the local energy inequality \[ \begin{aligned} & \int\limits_\Omega| u(\cdot,t)|^2\,\varphi(\cdot,t)\,dx +2\int\limits_0^t\int\limits_\Omega|\nabla u|^2\varphi\,dxdt \\ \leq & \int\limits_0^t\int\limits_\Omega\left[| u|^2\left(\frac{\partial \varphi}{\partial t}+\Delta \varphi \right)+(| u|^2+2p)u\cdot\nabla\varphi\right]dxdt \end{aligned} \] for every nonnegative \(\varphi\in C^\infty_C(\mathbb{R}^3\times\mathbb{R})\) vanishing in a neighborhood of \(\Omega_T\). Two main results are proved in the paper. Regularity criterion: for each \(\gamma<10/63\) there exist positive numbers \(\varepsilon<1\) and \(\rho_0<1\) such that the point \(z=(x,t)\) is regular if for some \(0<\rho<\rho_0\) \[ \int\limits_{Q(z,\rho)}\left[|\nabla u|^2+| u|^{10/3}+| p|^{5/3}\right]dxdt< \rho^{5/3-\gamma}\,\varepsilon, \] where \(Q(z,\rho)=B(x,\rho)\times (t-\rho^2,t)\) is the parabolic cylinder. Estimate of possible singular set \(S\): the parabolic upper Minkowski dimension of the set \(S\) is bounded by \(95/63\).