A connection between symmetry breaking for Sobolev minimizers and stationary Navier-Stokes flows past a circular obstacle

DOI10.1007/S00245-022-09831-WzbMATH Open1493.35066arXiv2112.14122OpenAlexW4206872056MaRDI QIDQ2115128FDOQ2115128

Authors: Gianmarco Sperone, Tobias Weth, Filippo Gazzola 

Publication date: 15 March 2022

Published in: Applied Mathematics and Optimization (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Fluid flows around a symmetric obstacle generate vortices which may lead to symmetry breaking of the streamlines. We study this phenomenon for planar viscous flows governed by the stationary Navier-Stokes equations with constant inhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary data in a rectangular channel containing a circular obstacle. In such (symmetric) framework, symmetry breaking is strictly related to the appearance of multiple solutions. Symmetry breaking properties of some Sobolev minimizers are studied and explicit bounds on the boundary velocity (in terms of the length and height of the channel) ensuring uniqueness are obtained after estimating some Sobolev embedding constants and constructing a suitable solenoidal extension of the boundary data. We show that, regardless of the solenoidal extension employed, such bounds converge to zero at an optimal rate as the length of the channel tends to infinity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.14122

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zbMATH Keywords

symmetry breakingviscous incompressible fluidsbounds for optimal Sobolev constants

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Navier-Stokes equations (35Q30) Existence, uniqueness, and regularity theory for incompressible viscous fluids (76D03) Semilinear elliptic equations with Laplacian, bi-Laplacian or poly-Laplacian (35J91) Sobolev spaces and other spaces of ``smooth functions, embedding theorems, trace theorems (46E35) Boundary value problems for systems of nonlinear higher-order PDEs (35G60)

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