On the suitable weak solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations in the whole space (Q1820931)

The author obtains the suitable weak solutions in the whole space \(\Omega ={\mathbb{R}}^ 3\) to the following Navier-Stokes system of equations describing the motion of a viscous incompressible fluid: \[ (1)\quad \partial u/\partial t+u\cdot \nabla u-\Delta u=f-\nabla p\quad in\quad Q_ T;\quad \nabla \cdot u=0\quad in\quad Q_ T,\quad u|_{t=0}=u_ 0(x), \] where the symbols have their usual meaning and \(Q_ T=]0,T[\times {\mathbb{R}}^ 3.\) At first the author mentions that a suitable weak solution of the system (1) is \[ (2)\quad u\in L^ 2(0,T;V)\cap C_{deb}(0,T;H) \] which satisfies the local energy inequality \[ (3)\quad | u(t)|^ 2+\int^{t}_{t_ 0} | \nabla u|^ 2 d\zeta \leq | u(t_ 0)|^ 2+\int^{t}_{t_ 0} <f,u> d\zeta \] for almost all \(t_ 0\in [0,T]\) (included \(t_ 0=0)\) and for all \(t\geq t_ 0.\) After this he constructs another class of suitable weak solutions utilizing (2) and (3) and verifying the local energy estimate \[ \int_{\Omega} | u(t)|^ 2 \phi +2\iint_{Q_ t} | \nabla u|^ 2 \phi \leq \int_{\Omega} | u_ 0(t)|^ 2 \phi + \] \[ +\iint_{Q_ t} | u|^ 2(\frac{\partial \phi}{\partial t}+\Delta \phi)+\iint_{Q_ t} (| u|^ 2+2p)u\cdot \nabla \phi +\iint_{Q_ t} 2f\cdot u\phi \] for every regular non-negative scalar function \(\phi\) with compact support with respect to the space variables. \(L^ 2(0,T;V)\) is the Banach space of strongly measurable functions in ]0,T[ with values in V, \(C_{deb}(0,T;H)\) is the subspace of \(L^{\infty}(0,T;H)\) of functions u(t) which are weakly continuous on [0,T] with values in H where \(H=\{u\in {\mathbb{L}}^ 2\); \(\nabla \cdot u=0\}\) and \(V=\{u\in {\mathbb{H}}'\); \(\nabla \cdot u=0\}\) etc.