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Large, global solutions to the three-dimensional the navier-stokes equations without vertical viscosity

Analysis of PDEs 2022-02-24 v1

Abstract

The three-dimensional, homogeneous, incompressible Navier-Stokes equations are studied in the absence of viscosity in one direction. It is shown that there are arbitrarily large initial data generating a unique global solution, the main feature of which is that they are slowly varying in the direction where viscosity is missing. The difficulty arises from the complete absence of a regularising effect in this direction. The special structure of the nonlinear term, joint with the divergence-free condition on the velocity field, is crucial in obtaining the result.

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@article{arxiv.2202.11536,
  title  = {Large, global solutions to the three-dimensional the navier-stokes equations without vertical viscosity},
  author = {Isabelle Gallagher and Alexandre Yotopoulos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.11536},
  year   = {2022}
}
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