Global well-posedness and large-time decay for the 2D micropolar equations (Q501622)

The authors are concerned with the \(2D\) micropolar equations with only angular velocity dissipation, \vskip8pt\noindent \(\partial_tu + \kappa u-2\kappa \nabla \times w + \nabla \pi + u\cdot \nabla u =0,\) \vskip2pt\noindent \(\nabla \cdot u =0,\) \vskip2pt\noindent \(\partial_t w-\gamma \Delta w+4\kappa w-2\kappa \nabla \times u+u\cdot \nabla w=0,\) \vskip8pt\noindent where \(u=(u_1,u_2)\) and \(w\) are the usual unknown functions. The first result (Theorem 1.1) establishes the global existence and uniqueness of the solutions to the above PDE system. The next result (Theorem 1.2) establishes explicit time decay rates for the solutions of the same PDE system, without the term \(4\kappa w\), under the condition \(\gamma > 4\kappa\). Theorem 1.3 is an additional result on the decay rate of \(\| w(\cdot , t)\|_{L^2}\) as \(t\rightarrow \infty\).