Remarks on the Cauchy problem for the axisymmetric Navier-Stokes equations

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DOI10.5802/CML.25zbMATH Open1356.35159arXiv1510.01036OpenAlexW2963196433MaRDI QIDQ502290FDOQ502290


Authors: Thierry Gallay, Vladimír Šverák Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 3 January 2017

Published in: Confluentes Mathematici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Motivated by applications to vortex rings, we study the Cauchy problem for the three-dimensional axisymmetric Navier-Stokes equations without swirl, using scale invariant function spaces. If the axisymmetric vorticity is integrable with respect to the two-dimensional measure dr dz, where (r, heta,z) denote the cylindrical coordinates in R^3, we show the existence of a unique global solution, which converges to zero in L^1 norm as time goes to infinity. The proof of local well-posedness follows exactly the same lines as in the two-dimensional case, and our approach emphasizes the similarity between both situations. The solutions we construct have infinite energy in general, so that energy dissipation cannot be invoked to control the long-time behavior. We also treat the more general case where the initial vorticity is a finite measure whose atomic part is small enough compared to viscosity. Such data include point masses, which correspond to vortex filaments in the three-dimensional picture.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.01036




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