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On the axisymmetric Navier-Stokes flow passing a cone with the total-slip boundary condition

Analysis of PDEs 2026-05-26 v1

Abstract

For the incompressible Navier-Stokes flows passing a certain type of cones DD with the Navier total-slip boundary condition, we show that there exists an absolute constant C>0C_* > 0 such that if supxDrv0,θCandDrv0,θ(x)dx=0, \sup_{x\in D}r|v_{0,\theta}|\leq C_* \quad\text{and}\quad \int_{D} r v_{0,\theta}(x) \mathrm{d} x = 0, then there exists a unique global bounded strong solution with finite energy, where rr means the distance to the zz axis, and v0,θv_{0,\theta} represents the initial value of the azimuthal component of the velocity v\boldsymbol{v}. Unlike in the previous conclusion in \cite{LPYZZZ24}, no parity assumption on v0\boldsymbol{v}_0 is needed. There are four key ingredients in the proof. (1) In spherical coordinates, we introduce three new quantities \mathcal{K}\buildrel\hbox{def}\over =\frac{\sin\phi}{\rho^2}\partial_\phi\Big(\frac{v_\theta}{\sin\phi}\Big) \,,\quad\quad\mathcal{F}\buildrel\hbox{def}\over =-\partial_\rho\Big(\frac{v_\theta}{\rho}\Big) \,,\quad\quad \mathcal{O}\buildrel\hbox{def}\over =\frac{1}{\rho\sin\phi}\Big(\omega_\theta-\frac{2v_\phi\eta(\rho)}{\rho}\Big) \,, and derive a self-closed energy estimate for them, where η\eta is a cut-off function which vanishes near the origin and equals 11 away from the origin. (2) A boundary value problem of the pressure PP is proposed and an elliptic estimate for PP is established in order to control boundary terms arising from the Navier total-slip boundary condition. (3) A De Giorgi iteration scheme is applied to establish the boundedness of the quantity rvθrv_\theta whose integral on DD vanishes for all the time. (4) A new anisotropic Hardy's inequality is derived for functions whose integral on DD vanish.

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@article{arxiv.2605.25137,
  title  = {On the axisymmetric Navier-Stokes flow passing a cone with the total-slip boundary condition},
  author = {Zijin Li and Xin Yang and Qi S. Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.25137},
  year   = {2026}
}

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