Asymptotic Behaviour of Solutions of the Stationary Navier‐Stokes Equations
Asymptotic Behaviour of Solutions of the Stationary Navier‐Stokes Equations
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DOI:
10.1112/jlms/s1-44.1.340
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发表时间:
1969
影响因子:
1.2
通讯作者:
R. Dyer;D. Edmunds
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作者:
R. Dyer;D. Edmunds
1. In a recent paper [1] the authors have shown that, roughly speaking, if u is a solution of the stationary Navier-Stokes equations in an open connected set Q c R3, and if u has a zero of infinite order at some point of fi, then u is identically zero in Q. It seems appropriate to supplement this result with one concerning the behaviour at infinity of solutions, and in this paper we make some progress in this direction. There is, of course, a very considerable amount of literature on the exterior problem for the stationary Navier-Stokes equations: we mention in particular the theorem of Finn [2] that if u is a solution in the exterior of a bounded set S, with u equal to zero on the boundary of S, and if u (x)= ofl*!" 1) as\x\-> oo, then u vanishes identically. Here we prove that if u is a solution in the exterior of S with bounded acceleration gradients and u (x)= O (exp (—exp (a|.,\-| 3)) J as\x\-*• oo, for all a> 0, then u is identically zero; the relative weakness of this result in comparison with that of Finn apparently reflects the fact that it is obtained as a consequence of the local behaviour at infinity of u only, without the knowledge of zero boundary data which Finn has.The method of proof is to use an inversion which takes a problem in a neighbourhood of infinity into one in a punctured ball, and then to use a theorem on the solutions of differential inequalities close to those recently obtained by Agmon [3]. Since this theorem is perhaps of some interest in the general field of partial differential equations, we mention it here: Let v be a solution of class C2 of the inequality