Analysis of a linear fluid-structure interaction problem (Q1812320)

The authors consider a fluid-structure interaction problem in fixed domains, where the velocity \({\mathbf v}\) of the fluid evolves according to Navier-Stokes equation, and the stress field \({\mathbf u}\) of the solid region evolves according to an hyperbolic equation associated to the linear elasticity situation. On the fixed interface between the fluid and the solid regions, the velocity and the stress fields are supposed to be equal and a Neumann type boundary condition is imposed. The authors first write a variational formulation of the problem, which eliminates the pressure in the fluid region. Then they introduce what they call an auxiliary parabolic problem and which corresponds to a change of the unknown fields (reduction of one order of the time derivative in the elastic region). Introducing a Galerkin scheme for this auxiliary problem and proving estimates on the solution of this Galerkin scheme, they first prove the existence of a solution of this auxiliary problem. They finally derive the existence of a weak solution of the original problem. They conclude their paper proving further regularity results on this weak solution and proving the existence of a square integrable pressure, through an inf-sup condition. Because many problems of fluid-structure interactions have already been considered, the authors make a short bibliography of the different models and justify the one they consider in the present work.