Fluid flows around moving obstacles. Non-autonomous rotation and fluids with variable density (Q2893201)

In the presented thesis the author studies the Navier-Stokes equations in the exterior of a moving, in particular rotating, obstacle. The main interest of the author is devoted to the case where the obstacle undergoes a rotation described by a non-autonomous equation, and to fluids having variable density. In the non-autonomous case an appropriate functional analytic treatment is applied in order to prove existence and uniqueness of local mild solutions. Furthermore, using the Faedo-Galerkin method as well as suitable a priori estimates, a well-posedness result for incompressible fluids with variable density can be proved. For that proof new methods have been developed. Thus, new elliptic estimates for the modified stationary Stokes problem with rotating effect are derived. The thesis is very comprehensive and self-contained. Semigroup techniques are applied for the time-dependent equations, too.NEWLINENEWLINEThe bibliography contains 127 items.