Hölder regularity of the viscous vortex patches. (Régularité höldérienne des poches de tourbillon visqueuses). (Q2581331)

The author generalizes results obtained by many authors, beginning with G. Kirchhoff, in the study of the vortex patches stability in incompressible Euler flows, to the Navier-Stokes' vortex patches stability. The vortex \(\omega= \partial_1 v^2-\partial_2 v^1\) has the structure of a vortex patch if it is the indicatrix of a bounded set. The author's starting point is a result obtained in 1997 by R. Danchin, who established that if the initial patch is the indicatrix of a bounded domain \(\Omega\) of the class \(C^{1+\varepsilon}\), then the velocity field \(v_\nu\) is Lipschitzian (\(\nu\) is the kinematic viscosity of the fluid) and, in addition, that the transported flow field \[ \psi_\nu(t,x)= x+ \int^t_0 v_\nu(\tau, \psi_\nu(\tau, x))\,d\tau \] of the initial domain is of the class \(C^{1+\varepsilon'}\), with \(\varepsilon'< \varepsilon\). This result shows that there appears a loss of the Hölder regularity, \(\varepsilon'< \varepsilon\), which disappears in the Besov spaces \(B^\varepsilon_{p,\infty}\) with \(2< p< \infty\) and \(\varepsilon\in (2/p,1)\). The purpose of the article is to present the propagation in the limit case \(p= \infty\). As a consequence of this result it is possible to establish that the boundary of the transported \(\psi_\nu(t,\Omega)\) preserves, uniformly with respect to \(\nu\), the regularity \(C^{1+\varepsilon}\). All these results are presented in a theorem announced in the introduction as the main result. It is proved by means of auxiliary theorems, lemmas and propositions using method different from that used by R. Danchin. A great attention is given to the Besov space of functions, in which the author obtains the Hölder regularity of the vortex patches in the viscous flows. To this study the last chapter of the paper is devoted, the fourth, which contains its principal results generalizing those of R. Danchin.