Estimates of the solutions of the elastic system in a moving domain with free upper surface (Q1849016)

This paper provides some estimates of the solutions of an elliptic system related to the compressible Navier-Stokes equations with free upper surface. Applying an idea due to Solonnikov (contained in a preprint), a Plancherel identity and a transformation introduced by \textit{J. T. Beale} [Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 84, 307-352 (1984; Zbl 0545.76029)] the author derives an estimate in the Sobolev space \(H^{s}\) of the system \(-\mu \Delta -( \mu +\theta) \nabla \operatorname {div}\) and this for a fluid in a periodic channel subject to time-dependent boundary conditions. We point out that the results contained in this paper, despite the title of the paper and the system of equations considered, are of no interest in the theory of elasticity, because the boundary conditions introduced are not meaningful in the framework of solid mechanics.