Temporal decay rates for weak solutions of the Navier-Stokes Equations with supercritical fractional dissipation

Abstract

In this paper, we establish temporal decay for a weak solution $u(x,t)$ (with initial data $u_0$) of the Navier-Stokes equations with supercritical fractional dissipation $\alpha \in (0,\frac{5}{4})$ in $L^2(\mathbb{R}^3)$ and $\dot{H}^s(\mathbb{R}^3)$ ($s\leq0$). More precisely, we prove that $u$ satisfies the following upper bound: $$ \|u(t)\|_{2}^2\leq C(1+t)^{-\frac{3-2p}{2\alpha}}, \quad\forall t>0.$$ This estimate leads us to show the next inequality: $$ \|u(t)\|_{\dot{H}^{-\delta}}^2\leq C(1+t)^{-\frac{3-2\delta-2p}{2\alpha}}, \quad\forall t>0.$$ These results are obtained by applying standard Fourier Analysis and they hold for $\alpha\in(0,\frac{5}{4}),$ $p\in[-1,\frac{3}{2})$, $\delta\in [0, \frac{3-2p}{2})$ and $u_0\in L^2(\mathbb{R}^3)\cap \mathcal{Y}^p(\mathbb{R}^3)$ (and also $u_0\in L^1(\mathbb{R}^3)$ for $p=-1$ and a certain finite set of values of $\alpha$).