scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1278873

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The authors consider the Stokes equations in a bounded domain \(\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^3\), i.e. \[ -\Delta u+\nabla p=f, \quad\nabla\cdot u=0\text{ in }\Omega, \quad u=0 \text{ on }\partial \Omega. \] They study the following variational formulation, which uses the velocity \(u\) and the vorticity \(\omega\) as variables: \[ \begin{aligned} \langle\nabla \times\omega, \nabla\times \psi\rangle+ (\nabla \cdot\omega, \nabla \cdot\psi) & =\langle f,\Delta \times\psi \rangle\;\forall \psi\in X,\\ (\nabla\times u,\nabla \times\varphi) +(\nabla\cdot u,\nabla \cdot\varphi) & =(\omega,\nabla \times\varphi)\;\forall\varphi\in Y.\end{aligned} \] Here \(X\) and \(Y\) are suitable test spaces, that are chosen accordingly to the boundary conditions on \(u\) and \(\omega\). For five different choices of \((X,Y)\) the well-posedness of the corresponding variational problem is established. The results are obtained under general assumptions on the flow domain \(\Omega\), in particular \(\Omega\) is allowed to be multiply connected with a non-connected boundary.




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