Energy conservation for weak solutions of incompressible fluid equations: the Hölder case and connections with Onsager's conjecture (Q6102681)

This paper studies energy conservation for weak solutions to the Euler or Navier-Stokes system in connection with Onsager's conjecture. The solutions are thus assumed to have the Hölder regularity in the space variables. The main results are two folded: energy conservation on a periodic domain in Sections 4--5 and on a domain with boundary in Section 6. The results in Sections 4--5, as the author himself points out, follow easily from the method in [\textit{P. Constantin} et al., Commun. Math. Phys. 165, No. 1, 207--209 (1994; Zbl 0818.35085)]. However, careful computation succeeds in giving a natural extension of the existing results, which relaxes some assumptions on solutions with respect to the time variable. Section 6 is devoted to energy conservation for the Navier-Stokes system on a half space. The solutions are assumed to be continuous with a modulus of continuity in the horizontal variables. The novelty in Theorem 6.1 is that no conditions on the pressure are required. The proof uses horizontal mollification, which takes full advantage of the geometry of half spaces.