On the Navier-Stokes equations on surfaces (Q2062839)

In this paper, the authors considered the motion of an incompressible viscous fluid that completely covers a smooth, compact and embedded hypersurface \(\Sigma\) without boundary and flows along \(\Sigma\). They proved local-in-time well-posedness in the framework of \(L^p-L^q\) -maximal regularity and characterized the set of equilibria as the set of all Killing vector fields on \(\Sigma\), and show that each equilibrium on \(\Sigma\) is stable. Moreover, it is shown that any solution starting close to an equilibrium exists globally and converges at an exponential rate to a (possibly different) equilibrium as time tends to infinity. The authors are further planning to apply those techniques to study the Navier-Stokes equations on manifolds with boundary.