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On the global regularity of 2-D density patch for inhomogeneous incompressible viscous flow

Analysis of PDEs 2016-03-23 v1

Abstract

Toward P.-L. Lions' open question in \cite{Lions96} concerning the propagation of regularity for density patch, we establish the global existence of solutions to the 2-D inhomogeneous incompressible Navier-Stokes system with initial density given by (1η)1\Om0+1\Om0c(1-\eta){\bf 1}_{\Om_0}+{\bf 1}_{\Om_0^c} for some small enough constant η\eta and some Wk+2,pW^{k+2,p} domain \Om0,\Om_0, and with initial vorticity belonging to L1LpL^1\cap L^p and with appropriate tangential regularities. Furthermore, we prove that the regularity of the domain \Om0\Om_0 is preserved by time evolution.

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@article{arxiv.1503.04898,
  title  = {On the global regularity of 2-D density patch for inhomogeneous incompressible viscous flow},
  author = {Xian Liao and Ping Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.04898},
  year   = {2016}
}