Jeffery-Hamel asymptotics for steady state Navier-Stokes flow in domains with sector-like outlets to infinity (Q5928431)

The paper is a continuation of \textit{G. P. Galdi, M. Padula} and \textit{V. A. Solonnikov} [Indiana Univ. Math. J. 45, No. 4, 961-995 (1996; Zbl 0990.35116)]. In the present paper, the authors extend the previous results to planar domains with many outlets to infinity. More precisely, a domain \(\Omega\) with many outlets to infinity is given by \[ \Omega=\Omega_0\cup\Omega_1\cup\ldots\cup\Omega_m \] where \(\Omega_0\) is bounded and \(\Omega_i\) are unbounded subdomains of infinite sectors. The boundary of \(\Omega\) is piecewise smooth. The authors consider the stationary Navier-Stokes equations with given flow through each outlet. The main theorem says that if, for each outlet, the opening angle is not too large and the flow is small, then there is a solution that, in each outlet, behaves like the Jeffery-Hamel solution on the corresponding infinite sector with the same flow. Moreover, the solution is unique in a suitable class of Hölder continuous vector fields with small flows on the outlets, satisfying a special energy inequality. Finally, the same results are proved also when the condition on the flows is replaced by a similar condition on the pressure drops on each outlet.