Navier-Stokes flow in partially periodic domains (Q2827274)

This book (224 pages) contains the main results of the Ph. D. thesis sustained by the author at Darmstadt University in 2015. The point is to ``establish a systematic approach'' for systems of non-linear PDE (of Navier-Stokes type) ``which exhibits a periodic behavior in certain directions''. The main purpose is to obtain the maximal \(L^p\) regularity for the partially periodic Stokes operator. For this, a specific locally compact abelian (LCA) group is considered, where a Stokes-type problem can be uniquelly solved, with certain conditions imposed on the exterior forces and initial values. These conditions involve some real interpolation spaces. The important concept of Muckenhoupt weights on LCA groups and the Helmholtz-Leray projection are used.NEWLINENEWLINEThe book contains 5 chapters and 5 appendices. In Chapter 2 the basis of abstract harmonic analysis is given by using the abstract theory of Muckenhoupt weights on LCA groups. The partially periodic whole space problem for the Stokes operator is studied in Chapter 3. Existence, uniqueness and regularity properties are given here. Stokes-type operators in periodic half space, bent periodic half space, and periodic cylindrical domains are studied in Chapter 4. Some non-steady problems are studied in Chapter 5, where the maximal \(L^p\) regularity for the operators considered before are obtained. Periodic liquid crystal flows are also studied here. Some basic ideas concerning the topological spaces and topological groups, interpolation theory, weighted transference principle, and quasi linear evolution equations are given in the appendix part. A large list of references is given (80 papers). However, the book not contains any reference concerning the homogenization theory, which was used (for example) to get the Darcy's law for flow in porous media, starting with a Stokes fluid flow in a spatially periodic perforated domain.