Navier--Stokes flow in the exterior of a moving obstacle with a Lipschitz boundary

Abstract

Consider the three-dimensional Navier--Stokes flow past a moving rigid body $\mathscr{O} \subset \mathbb{R}^3$ with prescribed translational and angular velocities, where $\mathscr{O}$ stands for a bounded Lipschitz domain. We prove that the solution to the linearized problem is governed by a $C_0$-semigroup on solenoidal $L^q$-vector spaces with the $L^q$-$L^r$ estimates provided that $|1/q-1/2|<1/6+\varepsilon$ with some $\varepsilon>0$, where $r \ge q$ may be taken arbitrary large. As an application, we prove the existence and uniqueness of global mild solutions to the Navier--Stokes problem if the translational and angular velocities as well as the initial are sufficiently small.