Applications of Bourgain-Brézis inequalities to fluid mechanics and magnetism

DOI10.1016/J.CRMA.2015.10.005zbMATH Open1338.35325arXiv1509.01472OpenAlexW2160423919MaRDI QIDQ282707FDOQ282707

Authors: Sagun Chanillo, Jean Van Schaftingen, Po-Lam Yung 

Publication date: 12 May 2016

Published in: Comptes Rendus. Mathématique. Académie des Sciences, Paris (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We apply the borderline Sobolev inequalities of Bourgain-Brezis to the vorticity equation and Navier-Stokes equation in 2D. We take the initial vorticity to be in the space of functions of Bounded variation(BV). We obtain the subsequent vorticity to be in the space of functions of bounded variation, uniformly for small time, and the velocity vector to be uniformly bounded for small time. Such a conclusion cannot follow for initial vorticity taken to be just a measure or in L^1 from the Lamb-Oseen vortex example. Secondly we apply an improved Strichartz inequality obtained earlier by the first and third authors to the Maxwell equations of Electromagnetism. In particular we estimate the size of the magnetic field vector in terms of the gradient of the current density vector. The main point is that in this inequality only the L^1 norm in space appears for the gradient of the current density vector. Such a result is only possible because of a vanishing divergence inhomogeneity in the wave equation for the Magnetic field vector stemming from the Maxwell equations. A key ingredient in the proof of the improved Strichartz inequality is the Bourgain-Brezis borderline Sobolev inequalities.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.01472

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Navier-Stokes equations (35Q30) Existence, uniqueness, and regularity theory for incompressible viscous fluids (76D03) Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Dependence of solutions to PDEs on initial and/or boundary data and/or on parameters of PDEs (35B30)

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Cited In (3)

• Bourgain-Brezis inequalities on symmetric spaces of non-compact type
• The Incompressible Navier Stokes Flow in Two Dimensions with Prescribed Vorticity
• Approximation in higher-order Sobolev spaces and Hodge systems

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