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

DOI10.1016/J.ANIHPC.2007.11.002MaRDI QIDQ1001985zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0702339, https://eudml.org/doc/78837

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)

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.

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