Localisation and compactness properties of the Navier-Stokes global regularity problem

DOI10.2140/APDE.2013.6.25MaRDI QIDQ371156zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 27 September 2013

Published in Analysis \& PDE (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.1165

global regularity Navier-Stokes equations

Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) Navier-Stokes equations (35Q30) Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Existence, uniqueness, and regularity theory for compressible fluids and gas dynamics (76N10)

Abstract: In this paper we establish a number of implications between various qualitative and quantitative versions of the global regularity problem for the Navier-Stokes equations, in the periodic, smooth finite energy, smooth

H^{1}

, Schwartz, or mild

H^{1}

categories, and with or without a forcing term. In particular, we show that if one has global well-posedness in

H^{1}

for the periodic Navier-Stokes problem with a forcing term, then one can obtain global regularity both for periodic and for Schwartz initial data (thus yielding a positive answer to both official formulations of the problem for the Clay Millennium Prize), and can also obtain global smooth solutions from smooth

H^{1}

data, and global almost smooth solutions from smooth finite energy data. Our main new tools are localised energy and enstrophy estimates to the Navier-Stokes equation that are applicable for large data or long times, and which may be of independent interest.

Review text

This circumstantial paper treats the global regularity problem to the Navier-Stokes system NEWLINE\[NEWLINE \begin{aligned} &\frac{\partial u}{\partial t}+ (u\cdot\nabla)u-\Delta u+\nabla p=f,\quad \text{div}\,u=0 \quad x\in \mathbb{R}^3,\;t\in[0,T], \\ &u(x,0)=u_0(x)\quad x\in \mathbb{R}^3, \end{aligned} NEWLINE\]NEWLINE where \(f\) and \(u_0\) are given functions. Following by Clay Millennium Prize formulation by \textit{C. L. Fefferman} [Existence and smoothness of the Navier-Stokes equations. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society (AMS); Cambridge, MA: Clay Mathematics Institute (2006; Zbl 1194.35002)] the author gives different formulations of the regularity problem. These formulations pertain to different types of solutions including periodic solutions, finite energy solutions, \(H^1\) solutions, and smooth solutions. The scheme of implications between the various conjectures (existence of smooth or mild solutions, or local or global quantitative bounds in the periodic, Schwartz, \(H^1\), or finite energy categories, with or without normalized pressure, and with or without the \(f=0\) conditions) is presented.NEWLINENEWLINEThe main results of the paper are: \newline 1) global well-posedness in periodic \(H^1\) and \textit{a priori} periodic \(H^1\) boundness are equivalent; \newline 2) global well-posedness in periodic \(H^1\) implies global regularity for periodic data with normalised pressure; \newline 3) global well-posedness in periodic \(H^1\) implies global well-posedness from spatially smooth \(H^1\) data; \newline 4) global well-posedness in periodic \(H^1\) implies global almost regularity for \(f=0\) and \(u_0\in H^1\); \newline 5) global almost regularity for \(f=0\) and \(u_0\in H^1\) is equivalent to global almost regularity for \(f=0\) and \(u_0\in L^2\); \newline 6) for \(f=0\) the global almost regularity for \(u_0\in H^1\) and the global well-posedness for \(u_0\in H^1\) are equivalent. \newline The proof is based on the enstropy estimates to the Navier-Stokes equations applied for large data and long times.

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