A nonlinear ring singularity for the motion of a viscous incompressible liquid (Q2709604)

The author presents a method how to construct exact solutions to Navier-Stokes equations. This method is based on the fact that, knowing a solution to Navier-Stokes equations \(\mathbf Q\), \(P\), we can then find the pair \(\mathbf Q_1\), \(P_1\) solving the complex Navier-Stokes equations \(({\mathbf Q}_1 \cdot \nabla){\mathbf Q}_1 = -\nabla P_1 + \nu_1(\nu \Delta - \frac{\partial}{\partial t}){\mathbf Q}_1\), \(\operatorname {div} {\mathbf Q}_1 = 0\) with \(\mathbf Q_1\), \(P_1\) being complex functions and \(\nu_1\) a complex constant. Vice versa, to any \(\mathbf Q_1\), \(P_1\), a solution to the complex Navier-Stokes equations, we can construct a solution to the (real) Navier-Stokes equations. Thus, starting from a known solution to the (real) Navier-Stokes equations, via the complex ones, we can construct a new exact solution to the Navier-Stokes equations; this method gives nontrivial result only if \(\text{curl} (\mathbf (Q_1 \cdot \nabla){\mathbf Q}_1 \neq 0\). This possibility is documented by the construction of a solution which is singular on axisymmetric ring. Note that this (stationary) solution is not a weak one as it does not belong to \(L^6\).