On the decay of infinite energy solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations in the plane

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Abstract: Infinite energy solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations in mathbbR2 may be constructed by decomposing the initial data into a finite energy piece and an infinite energy piece, which are then treated separately. We prove that the finite energy part of such solutions is bounded for all time and decays algebraically in time when the same can be said of heat energy starting from the same data. As a consequence, we describe the asymptotic behavior of the infinite energy solutions. Specifically, we consider the solutions of Gallagher and Planchon [5] as well as solutions constructed from a "radial energy decomposition". Our proof uses the Fourier Splitting technique of M. E. Schonbek.


From the introduction: ``The aim of the article is to explore the large time energy decay in \(\mathbb{R}^2\) of solutions to the system \[ \begin{cases} u_t+u\cdot \nabla u + \nabla p-\triangle u=-u \cdot \nabla v-v \cdot \nabla u\\ \nabla \cdot u=\nabla \cdot v =0\\ u(0)=u_0 \in L^2(\mathbb{R}^2),\end{cases}\tag{1} \] where \(u\) is the velocity of an incompressible fluid, \(p\) is its pressure and \(v\) is a specified external vector field satisfying \[ \|\nabla ^{\alpha}v\|_{L^{\eta}(\mathbb{R}^2)}\leq C t^{-\frac{1}{2}-\frac{\alpha}{2}+\frac{1}{\eta}}\tag{2} \] for \(\alpha=0\) when \(2<\eta>\infty\) and either \(\alpha=0\) or \(\alpha=1\) when \(\eta=\infty\). Such a system arises naturally when considering infinite energy solutions of the Navier-Stokes equation, which includes the case of rough initial date in the plane. The main result in this article is the following theorem: Let \(u\) be a global solution to (1), with \(v\) satisfying (2). We assume: (i) For each \(t_0>0\) there is a constant \(C_{t_0}>0\) such that for all \(T>t_0\), \[ \underset{t_0\leq t\leq T}{\sup} \|u(t)\|_{L^{2}(\mathbb{R}^2)}\leq C_{t_0}(1+T)^{\frac{1}{2}}. \] (ii) For some \(\gamma \in [0,1]\) \(\|e^{\triangle t}u_0 \|^2_2\leq C(1+t)^{-\gamma}\), where \(e^{\triangle t}u_0\) denotes the solution to the heat equation with initial date \(u_0\). Then for every \(t_0>0\) there exists a constant \(\widetilde{C}_{t_0}>0\) such that \( \|u(t)\|^2_{L^{2}(\mathbb{R}^2)}\leq \widetilde{C}_{t_0}(1+T)^{\frac{1}{2}}\) for all \(t>t_0\).











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