Global existence and time-decay rates of classical solutions to the generalized incompressible Oldroyd-B model in \(\mathbb{R}^3\) (Q6050963)

The authors consider the 3D generalized incompressible Oldroyd-B model written as: \(\partial _{t}u+u\cdot \nabla u+\nabla q=\mu _{1}\nabla \cdot \tau \), \(\partial _{t}\tau -\mu \Delta \tau +u\cdot \nabla \tau +Q(\tau ,\nabla u)=\mu _{2}D(u)\), \(\nabla \cdot u=0\), and posed in \((0,\infty )\times \mathbb{R}^{3}\), where \(u\) denotes the velocity, \(\tau \) the symmetric tensor of constraints, \(q\) the pressure of the fluid, \(D(u)\) the symmetric part of the velocity gradient, \(Q\) the bilinear term taken as: \( Q(\tau ,\nabla u)=\tau \Omega (u)-\Omega (u)\tau -b(D(u)\tau +\tau D(u))\), \( b\in \lbrack -1,1]\) being a constant and \(\Omega (u)\) the skew-symmetric part of the \(\nabla u\), \(\mu \geq 0\), and \(\mu _{1},\mu _{2}>0\). The initial values \(u\mid _{t=0}=u_{0}(x)\), \(\tau \mid _{t=0}=\tau _{0}(x)\), \(x\in \mathbb{R}^{3}\), are imposed, with \(u_{0},\tau _{0}\in H^{N}(\mathbb{R}^{3})\), \(N\geq 3\). The main result of the paper proves that if there exists a constant \(\delta _{0}>0\) such that \(\left\Vert u_{0}\right\Vert _{H^{[N/2]+2}}+\left\Vert \tau _{0}\right\Vert _{H^{[N/2]+2}}\leq \delta _{0} \), the above problem admits a unique global classical solution \((u,\tau )\) satisfying that for all \(t\geq 0\): \[\left\Vert u(t)\right\Vert _{H^{m}}^{2}+\left\Vert \tau (t)\right\Vert _{H^{m}}^{2}+\int_{0}^{t}(\left\Vert u(s)\right\Vert _{H^{m}}^{2}+\left\Vert \tau (s)\right\Vert _{H^{m}}^{2})ds\leq C(\left\Vert u_{0}\right\Vert _{H^{m}}^{2}+\left\Vert \tau _{0}\right\Vert _{H^{m}}^{2}),\] where \( [N/2]+2\leq m\leq N\). If \(u_{0},\tau _{0}\in \overset{.}{H}^{-\varrho }\), for some \(\varrho \in \lbrack 0,3/2)\), then for all \(t\geq 0\): \[\left\Vert \Lambda ^{-\varrho }u(t)\right\Vert _{L^{2}}^{2}+\left\Vert \Lambda ^{-\varrho }\tau (t)\right\Vert _{L^{2}}^{2}\leq C,\] and \[\left\Vert \nabla ^{l}u(t)\right\Vert _{H^{m}}^{2}+\left\Vert \nabla \left( l\right) \tau (t)\right\Vert _{H^{m}}^{2}\leq C(1+t)^{-l-\varrho },\, -\varrho <l\leq N-1.\] The proof is based on interpolation inequalities, which allow to prove global existence and time-decay rates of classical solutions, energy estimates and an estimate for the negative Sobolev norms in the \(L^{2}\) space.