Three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations driven by space-time white noise (Q2517343)

The authors consider the stochastic three-dimensional (3D) Navier-Stokes equation describing the time evolution of an incompressible fluid and driven by space-time white noise. This paper aims at giving a meaning to the Navier-Stokes equation when it is driven by space-time white noise and at obtaining local (in time) solutions. It is mentioned that such a noise might not be relevant for the study of turbulence. However, in other cases, when a flow is subjected to an external forcing with a very small time and space correlation length, a space-time white noise may be appropriate to model such a situation. The main difficulty in this case is that the noise and hence the solution are so singular that the non-linear term of the equation is not well-defined. To overcome these difficulties, the authors apply the theory of regularity structures and obtain existence and uniqueness of local solutions. The key idea of the theory of regularity structures is applied as follows: an abstract Taylor expansion is performed on both sides of the equation. Then it is explained how to endow the regularity structure, and then multiplication, differentiation, the state space of solutions, and the convolution with singular kernels can be defined on this regularity structure. Also, the paracontrolled distributions are applied to get a solution, and the two approaches are compared.