High-low frequency slaving and regularity issues in the 3D Navier-Stokes equations

DOI10.1093/IMAMAT/HXV037MaRDI QIDQ2803392zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors John D. Gibbon

Publication date 4 May 2016

Published in IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.03060

zbMATH Keywords

3D Navier-Stokes equationsexistenceclosure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) Navier-Stokes equations (35Q30) Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05)

Abstract: The old idea that an infinite dimensional dynamical system may have its high modes or frequencies slaved to low modes or frequencies is re-visited in the context of the $3D$ Navier-Stokes equations. A set of dimensionless frequencies $ilde{Omega}_m(t)$ are used which are based on $L^{2m}$-norms of the vorticity. To avoid using derivatives a closure is assumed that suggests that the $ilde{Omega}_m$ ($m>1$) are slaved to $ilde{Omega}_1$ (the global enstrophy) in the form $ilde{Omega}_m=ilde{Omega}_{1}mathcal{F}_m(ilde{Omega}_1)$. This is shaped by the constraint of two H"older inequalities and a time average from which emerges a form for $mathcal{F}_m$ which has been observed in previous numerical Navier-Stokes and MHD simulations. When written as a phase plane in a scaled form, this relation is parametrized by a set of functions $1leqlambd{a}_m(au)leq4$, where curves of constant $lambd{a}_m$ form the boundaries between tongue-shaped regions. In regions where $2.5leqlambd{a}_{m}leq4$ and $1leqlambd{a}_{m}leq2$ the Navier-Stokes equations are shown to be regular,: numerical simulations appear to lie in the latter region. Only in the central region $2<lambd{a}_m<2.5$ has no proof of regularity been found.

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