On the spatial decay of 3-D steady-state navier-stokes flows (Q4521110)

The authors investigate spatial decay of gradients of stationary Navier-Stokes solutions in three-dimensional exterior domains with zero velocity at infinity. The main results states that if \(u(x)= O(|x|^{-1})\) as \(|x|\to\infty\), then \(\nabla^ku(x)= O(|x|^{-1-k})\) for \(k\geq 1\), if the body force \(f\) satisfies \(\nabla^m f(x)= O(|x|^{-3-m})\) for all \(m< k\). The proof is based on a scaling argument and on Sobolev-type interior estimates for Stokes equations in a bounded domain, which seem to be of independent interest.