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Global weak solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations for intermittent initial data in half-space

Analysis of PDEs 2023-07-07 v1

Abstract

We prove existence of global-in-time weak solutions of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in the half-space R+3\mathbb{R}^3_+ with initial data in a weighted space that allow non-uniformly locally square integrable functions that grow at spatial infinity in an intermittent sense. The space for initial data is built on cubes whose sides RR are proportional to the distance to the origin and the square integral of the data is allowed to grow as a power of RR. The existence is obtained via a new a priori estimate and stability result in the weighted space, as well as new pressure estimates. Also, we prove eventual regularity of such weak solutions, up to the boundary, for (x,t)(x,t) satisfying t>c1x2+c2t>c_1|x|^2 + c_2, where c1,c2>0c_1,c_2>0, for a large class of initial data u0u_0, with c1c_1 arbitrarily small. As an application of the existence theorem, we construct global discretely self-similar solutions, thus extending the theory on the half-space to the same generality as the whole space.

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@article{arxiv.2012.15848,
  title  = {Global weak solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations for intermittent initial data in half-space},
  author = {Zachary Bradshaw and Igor Kukavica and Wojciech S. Ożański},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.15848},
  year   = {2023}
}

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