Existence and uniqueness of steady weak solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations in R^2

DOI10.1090/PROC/14087zbMATH Open1393.76021arXiv1703.06465OpenAlexW2601416095MaRDI QIDQ3177852FDOQ3177852

Authors: Julien Guillod, Peter Wittwer 

Publication date: 2 August 2018

Published in: Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The existence of weak solutions to the stationary Navier-Stokes equations in the whole plane $mathbb{R}^2$ is proven. This particular geometry was the only case left open since the work of Leray in 1933. The reason is that due to the absence of boundaries the local behavior of the solutions cannot be controlled by the enstrophy in two dimensions. We overcome this difficulty by constructing approximate weak solutions having a prescribed mean velocity on some given bounded set. As a corollary, we obtain infinitely many weak solutions in $mathbb{R}^2$ parameterized by this mean velocity, which is reminiscent of the expected convergence of the velocity field at large distances to any prescribed constant vector field. This explicit parameterization of the weak solutions allows us to prove a weak-strong uniqueness theorem for small data. The question of the asymptotic behavior of the weak solutions remains however open, when the uniqueness theorem doesn't apply.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.06465

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zbMATH Keywords

Navier-Stokes equationssteady weak solutionswhole plain

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear elliptic equations (35J60) Existence, uniqueness, and regularity theory for incompressible viscous fluids (76D03) Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Existence problems for PDEs: global existence, local existence, non-existence (35A01) Weak solutions to PDEs (35D30)

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