Elements of the analysis for the study of certain models of turbulence of viscous incompressible fluids. (Q2491952)

This graduate textbook in applied mathematics, written in French, gives an concise introduction for analysing and modelling the governing equations of incompressible fluid mechanics. The fundamental principles and equations of fluid mechanics and thermodynamics are introduced and fundamental classical results are recalled. The mathematical tools to deal with gradient, divergence and Stokes operators are described in chapter 3. Existence and uniqueness results for stationary Stokes problem for different boundary conditions are also given. Leray's theorem on the existence of weak solutions of Navier-Stokes equations is proven in chapter 4. The existence and uniqueness of strong solutions in two and three space dimensions are also discussed, for the later case, however, for finite times only. Question of regularizations of parabolic equations are also investigated. The question of outflow boundary conditions is addressed in chapter 5, while chapter 6 deals with the penalization technique to impose no-slip, i.e. Dirichlet, boundary conditions on the wall. These methods allow to solve Navier-Stokes equations in complex geometries by using numerical methods adapted to Cartesian geometries. Chapter 7 studies incompressible flows with non-constant density, i.e. with stratification. Existence results for weak solutions of these nonhomogeneous Navier-Stokes equations for which the viscosity may depend on the density are also shown. Three appendices summarize properties of classical differential operators and provide some complements of thermodynamics and tools of differential geometry to treat open bounded domains which are sufficiently regular. Up-to-date references complete this textbook which yields a useful introduction to mathematical techniques for analysing the governing equations of incompressible fluid mechanics.