Finite time blowup for an averaged three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equation (Q2802068)

This very comprehensive and detailed paper is a contribution to the famous Navier-Stokes global regularity problem which is one of the seven millenium problems. It is well-known that the Navier-Stokes equations on the Euclidean space \(\mathbb R^3\) can be represented in the form \(\partial_tu=\Delta u + B(u, u)\), where \(B\) is a suitable bilinear operator on divergence-free vector fields \(u\) satisfying the cancellation property \(\langle B(u, u), u \rangle = 0\) (which is equivalent to the energy identity for the Navier-Stokes equations). In the present paper a modification \(\partial_t u = \Delta u + {\widetilde B}(u, u)\) of this equation is used where \({\widetilde B}\) is an averaged version of the bilinear operator \(B\) and which also fulfills the cancellation condition \(\langle {\widetilde B}(u, u), u \rangle = 0\) (so it obeys the usual energy identity). Analyzing a system of ordinary differential equations an example of a smooth solution to such an averaged Navier-Stokes equation is constructed which blows up in finite time. This shows that one has to apply a finer structure on the nonlinear term \(B(u,u)\) in order to resolve the Navier-Stokes global regularity problem. Finally, the author presents a program for adapting the above blow up results to the true Navier-Stokes equations.NEWLINENEWLINEThe paper is self-contained and all necessary tools are described clearly. The bibliography contains 43 items.