Regularity criterion of axisymmetric weak solutions to the 3D Navier-Stokes equations (Q878504)

The paper deals with weak axisymmetric solutions to Navier-Stokes equations on \(\mathbb R^3 \times (0,T)\). After a careful description of known regularity results for solutions in Leray-Hopf class the authors explain which type of axisymmetric solutions they consider. For cylindrical coordinates \(r, \theta, x_3\) and basis vectors \(e_{r}= (\sin \theta, \cos \theta, 0), e_{\theta}= (-\cos \theta, \sin \theta,0), e_{3}= (0, 0, 1)\) the axisymmetric solution \(u\) has the form \[ u(x,t) = u^r(r,x_3,t)e_r + u^{\theta}(r,x_3,t)e_{\theta} + u^3(r,x_3,t)e_3 \] and its vorticity \[ w = \operatorname {curl} u = w^r e_r + w^{\theta}e_{\theta} + w^3 e_3. \] The authors prove the following result: Let \(u(x,t)\) be an axisymmetric solutions to Navier-Stokes equations on \(\mathbb R^3 \times (0,T)\) with the initial value \(u_0 \in H^1(\mathbb R^3), \nabla . u_0 = 0\). If \(w^{\theta }\) satisfies the condition \[ \int_0^T \| w^{\theta }(t)\| _{\dot B^0_{\infty,\infty}} \,dt < \infty, \] then \(u\) is a regular solution on \(\mathbb R^3 \times (0,T)\). Here \(\|\cdot \| _{\dot B^0_{\infty,\infty}}\) stands for the norm in a homogeneous Besov space.