Anti-symmetric Hamiltonians. II: Variational resolutions for Navier-Stokes and other nonlinear evolutions

DOI10.1016/J.ANIHPC.2007.11.002zbMATH Open1175.35101arXivmath/0702339OpenAlexW2047832735MaRDI QIDQ1001985FDOQ1001985

Authors: Nassif Ghoussoub, Abbas Moameni 

Publication date: 20 February 2009

Published in: Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré. Analyse Non Linéaire (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The nonlinear selfdual variational principle established in a preceeding paper [8] -- though good enough to be readily applicable in many stationary nonlinear partial differential equations -- did not however cover the case of nonlinear evolutions such as the Navier-Stokes equations. One of the reasons is the prohibitive coercivity condition that is not satisfied by the corresponding selfdual functional on the relevant path space. We show here that such a principle still hold for functionals of the form I(u)= int_0^T Big [ L (t, u(t),dot {u}(t)+Lambda u(t)) +< Lambda u(t), u(t) > Big ] dt +ell (u(0)- u(T), frac {u(T)+ u(0)}{2}) where $L$ (resp., $ell$) is an anti-selfdual Lagrangian on state space (resp., boundary space), and $Lambda$ is an appropriate nonlinear operator on path space. As a consequence, we provide a variational formulation and resolution to evolution equations involving nonlinear operators such as the Navier-Stokes equation (in dimensions 2 and 3) with various boundary conditions. In dimension 2, we recover the well known solutions for the corresponding initial-value problem as well as periodic and anti-periodic ones, while in dimension 3 we get Leray solutions for the initial-value problems, but also solutions satisfying $u(0)=alphau(T)$ for any given $alpha$ in $(-1,1)$. Our approach is quite general and does apply to many other situations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0702339

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zbMATH Keywords

anti-selfdual Lagrangiansnon-linear evaluation equationsselfdual variational principles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Navier-Stokes equations (35Q30) Variational methods applied to PDEs (35A15) Variational principles of physics (49S05)

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