On some aspects of analysis of incompressible flow through cascades of profiles (Q4464533)

The authors study a 2D stationary model of fluid flow through a cascade of profiles. Starting from a simple closed and piecewise \(C^{2}\) curve \(C_{1}\) in \(\mathbb{R}^{2}\) which defines exterior and interior domains with Lipschitz continuous boundary, the authors define the other profiles as : \( C_{k}=\{( x_{1},x_{2}+( k-1) \tau ) \); \(( x_{1},x_{2}) \in C_{1}\}\) and \(C_{-k}=\{( x_{1},x_{2}-k\tau ) \); \(( x_{1},x_{2}) \in C_{1}\}\) for \(\tau >0\) fixed, in such a way that these profiles are mutually disjoint. The region \(O\) occupied by the fluid is then defined as \(\{( x_{1},x_{2}) \in \mathbb{R}^{2}\); \(d_{i}<x_{1}<d_{o}\}\backslash \cup _{k=1}^{k=+\infty }( \overline{\operatorname{Int} C_{k}}\cup \overline{\operatorname{Int} C_{-k}}) \), assuming that the profiles are contained in the strip defined by means of the two positive constants \(d_{i}\) and \(d_{o}\). The inlet (resp. outlet) is denoted by \(G_{i}\) (resp. \(G_{o}\)) and corresponds to \(x_{1}=d_{i}\) (resp. \(x_{1}=d_{o}\)). The authors consider the steady Navier-Stokes problem in \(O\) and the velocity field is imposed (equal to some \(g\)) on \(G_{i}\) and to 0 on the boundary of the profiles. On \(G_{o}\) a mixed type boundary condition is imposed. Assuming some smoothness and periodicity properties of the data (hence of the solution \(( u,p) \)) the authors reduce the problem to a similar one posed in a bounded domain \(\Omega \) specially with respect to \(x_{2}\). In order to build the weak variational formulation of the problem the authors then define an extension of the boundary data \(g \) to the whole domain \(\Omega \). The last part of the paper proves the existence of a solution of this variational formulation, the proof of which is based on a Galerkin approximation. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1031.00013].