Kwak transformation and Navier-Stokes equations (Q1766151)

The author studies the long-time dynamics of two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations. \textit{M.~Kwak} [Indiana Univ. Math. J 41, No. 4, 927--981 (1992; Zbl 0765.35034)] proved that for periodic boundary conditions in a given two-dimensional bounded domain there exists a system of reaction-diffusion equations which possesses exactly the same asymptotic long-time behaviour as the Navier-Stokes equations. Here this result is extended to mixed-free boundary conditions. The proof essentially uses a nonlinear change of variables introduced by \textit{M. Kwak} (loc. cit.) which maps the global attractor of the reaction-diffusion equations onto the global attractor of the Navier-Stokes equations.