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Determining the viscosity from the boundary information for incompressible fluid

Analysis of PDEs 2020-06-09 v1 Mathematical Physics Differential Geometry math.MP

Abstract

For the Stokes equations in a compact connected Riemannian nn-manifold (Ω,g)(\Omega,g) with smooth boundary Ω\partial \Omega, we give an equivalent new system of elliptic equations with (n+1)(n+1) independent unknown functions on Ω\Omega. We show that the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map Λ~ϵ~,μ,g{\tilde{\Lambda}}_{\tilde{\epsilon}, \mu,g} associated with this new system is also equivalent to the original Dirichlet-to-Neumann map Λμ,g\Lambda_{\mu,g} associated with the Stokes equations. We explicitly give the full symbol expression for the Λ~ϵ~,μ,g{\tilde{\Lambda}}_{\tilde{\epsilon},\mu,g} by a method of factorization, and prove that Dirichlet-to-Neumann map Λ~ϵ~,μ,g{\tilde{\Lambda}}_{\tilde{\epsilon},\mu,g} (or equivalently, Λμ,g\Lambda_{\mu, g}) uniquely determines viscosity μ\mu and all tangential and normal derivatives of μ\mu on Ω\partial \Omega. In particular, combining this result, Lai-Uhlmann-Wang's theorem and Heck-Li-Wang's theorem, we completely solve a long-standing open problem that asks whether one can determine the viscosity for the Stokes equations and for the Navier-Stokes equations by boundary measurements on an arbitrary bounded domain in Rn{\mathbb{R}}^n, (n=2,3n=2,3).

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@article{arxiv.2006.04310,
  title  = {Determining the viscosity from the boundary information for incompressible fluid},
  author = {Genqian Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.04310},
  year   = {2020}
}

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