The initial value problem for the navier-stokes equations
The initial value problem for the navier-stokes equations
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DOI:
10.1007/bf00282248
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发表时间:
1966
影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
M. Shinbrot;S. Kaniel
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作者:
M. Shinbrot;S. Kaniel
1. A beautiful theorem of LERAY'S [1] states that if u (x, t) is a weak solution of the Navier-Stokes equations for all x in R 3, then u is actually smooth except possibly on a set E of values of t having the following properties: the Lebesgue measure of E is zero; the complement of E is a union of intervals; and the last such interval is semi-infinite, so that all weak solutions are ultimately smooth. The beauty of this theorem is only marred by the fact that the solution is required to exist in all space rather than in an arbitrary smooth domain. As an application of the main theorem proved here, we show that this flaw in LERAY'S theorem can be removed.To do this, we first prove an existence theorem for solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations. In broad outline, the present state of existence theory is this. Let D be a bounded domain in R a. Given an initial instant to, and given initial data with two distributional derivatives in L2 (D), there is an interval (to, tl) of time in which the Navier-Stokes equations have a strong solution taking on the given data at to. This is the celebrated result of KISELEV & LADYZHENSKAIA [2, 3]. If, in a certain definite sense, the initial data are small enough, tt= oo, and this smooth solution exists for all time. But this may fail to be the case for large initial data.