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Global unique solvability of inhomogeneous Navier-Stokes equations with bounded density

Analysis of PDEs 2013-01-03 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we prove the global existence and uniqueness of solution to d-dimensional (for d=2,3d=2,3) incompressible inhomogeneous Navier-Stokes equations with initial density being bounded from above and below by some positive constants, and with initial velocity u0Hs(R2)u_0\in H^s(\R^2) for s>0s>0 in 2-D, or u0H1(R3)u_0\in H^1(\R^3) satisfying u0L2\nau0L2|u_0|_{L^2}|\na u_0|_{L^2} being sufficiently small in 3-D. This in particular improves the most recent well-posedness result in [10], which requires the initial velocity u0H2(Rd)u_0\in H^2(\R^d) for the local well-posedness result, and a smallness condition on the fluctuation of the initial density for the global well-posedness result.

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@article{arxiv.1301.0160,
  title  = {Global unique solvability of inhomogeneous Navier-Stokes equations with bounded density},
  author = {Marius Paicu and Ping Zhang and Zhifei Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.0160},
  year   = {2013}
}