Existence of semi-periodic solutions of steady Navier-Stokes equations in a half space with an exponential decay at infinity (Q1962596)

The authors study the existence of solutions to the stationary Navier-Stokes equations in the half space which are periodic in the directions orthogonal to the boundary. The main result of the paper is the pointwise exponential decay of the solutions as the distance from the boundary increases. They show that \[ |\partial^\alpha(u(x)-u_\infty)|+|\partial^\alpha(p(x)-p_\infty)|\leq C e^{-\sigma x_3}, \] where \(u_\infty\), \(p_\infty\) are the limits at infinity of the velocity field and the pressure field, respectively. The two constants \(C\), \(\sigma\) depend only on the characteristic lengths, the boundary data and on a bound of the enstrophy of the solution.