Equilibrium configurations and their uniqueness in a fluid-solid interaction problem

DOI10.1016/J.JDE.2026.114598MaRDI QIDQ7302426zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Denis Bonheure, Giovanni Paolo Galdi, Clara Patriarca

Publication date 22 July 2026

Published in Journal of Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/J.JDE.2026.114598

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Navier-Stokes equations (35Q30) Fluid-solid interactions (including aero- and hydro-elasticity, porosity, etc.) (74F10) Mathematical modeling or simulation for problems pertaining to fluid mechanics (76-10) Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05)

Review text

The paper provides a rigorous analysis of equilibrium configurations in a three-dimensional fluid-solid interaction problem. A rigid body, allowed to translate and to rotate about a prescribed axis, is immersed in an unbounded viscous incompressible fluid whose motion is driven by a prescribed, time-independent uniform velocity field at large spatial distances from the body. The body is subjected to a linear, possibly anisotropic, restoring force and a restoring torque. The problem is reformulated in a coordinate system attached to a reference configuration, resulting in a nonlinear coupling between the fluid flow and the angular displacement of the body. The authors prove the existence of at least one smooth equilibrium configuration for arbitrary values of the Reynolds number, together with suitable summability properties of the velocity and pressure fields. The existence proof combines an invading-domain argument with the Schaefer fixed point theorem and uniform a priori estimates. For sufficiently small Reynolds numbers, uniqueness within the established class of solutions is proved using estimates for the Oseen problem in exterior domains and a successive approximation argument.

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