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Non-conservative solutions of the Euler-$\alpha$ equations

Analysis of PDEs 2021-11-10 v2

Abstract

The Euler-α\alpha equations model the averaged motion of an ideal incompressible fluid when filtering over spatial scales smaller than α\alpha. We show that there exists β>1\beta>1 such that weak solutions to the two and three dimensional Euler-α\alpha equations in the class Ct0HxβC^0_t H^\beta_x are not unique and may not conserve the Hamiltonian of the system, thus demonstrating flexibility in this regularity class. The construction utilizes a Nash-style intermittent convex integration scheme. We also formulate an appropriate version of the Onsager conjecture for Euler-α\alpha, postulating that the threshold between rigidity and flexibility is the regularity class Lt3B3,,x13L^3_t B^{\frac{1}{3}}_{3,\infty,x}.

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@article{arxiv.2111.01027,
  title  = {Non-conservative solutions of the Euler-$\alpha$ equations},
  author = {Rajendra Beekie and Matthew Novack},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.01027},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

36 pages. Minor corrections

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