Attainability of time-periodic flow of a viscous liquid past an oscillating body (Q2062828)

The paper deals with a modification of the Finn ``starting problem for steady waves''. Here, a rigid body \(\mathcal B\) is plunged in \(\mathbb R^3\) filled with a quiescent viscous incompressible fluid. At a moment \(\mathcal B\) is smoothly set into a periodic motion with velocity \(\xi\) being a \(\mathcal T\) periodic function of average \(0\). One expects that the fluid eventually reach a time periodic flow of (also) period \(\mathcal T\). The main result is that this holds true under a smallness condition for \(\xi\), expressed in a suitable functional norm. Moreover, regularity properties of the flow are studied, and decay rates to the periodic flow as time goes to infinity are given.