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Christophe Prange

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arXiv2025

Stable self-similar singularity formation for infinite energy solutions of the incompressible porous medium equations

We consider a special class of infinite energy solutions to the inviscid incompressible porous medium equations (IPM), introduced in Castro-C\'ordoba-Gancedo-Orive [9]. The (IPM) equations then reduce to a one-dimensional nonlocal nonlinear equation, for which an explicit self-similar blow-up solution is found in [9]. We show the stability of this explicit blow-up solution by smooth enough perturbations, and identity a sharp regularity threshold below which it is unstable. The heart of our proof is a change of variables that transforms the study of finite time blow-up solutions, to the study of global-in-time solutions to the Proudman-Johnson equation, which is a reduced equation that appears for special classes of solutions of the two-dimensional Euler equations, and of the inviscid primitive equations (or hydrostatic Euler equations). Our main result is in fact the asymptotic stability with decay estimates for a family of steady states of this reduced equation. It thus also implies the corresponding stability of steady states for the associated classes of solutions to the Euler equations and inviscid primitive equations.

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arXiv2024

Unified quantitative analysis of the Stokes equations in dilute perforated domains via layer potentials

We develop a unified method to obtain the quantitative homogenization of Stokes systems in periodically perforated domains with no-slip boundary conditions on the perforating holes. The main novelty of our paper is a quantitative analysis of the asymptotic behavior of the two-scale cell correctors via periodic Stokes layer potentials. The two-scale cell correctors were introduced and analyzed qualitatively by Allaire in the early 90's. Thanks to our layer potential approach, we also provide a novel explanation of the conductivity matrix in Darcy's model, of the Brinkman term in Brinkman's model, and explain the special behavior for $d=2$. Finally, we also prove quantitative homogenization error estimates in various regimes of ratios between the size of the perforating holes and the typical distance between holes. In particular we handle a subtle issue in the dilute Darcy regime related to the non-vanishing of the Darcy velocity on the boundary.

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arXiv2024

Free boundary regularity of vacuum states for incompressible viscous flows in unbounded domains

In the well-known book of Lions [{\em Mathematical topics in fluid mechanics. Incompressible models}, 1996], global existence results of finite energy weak solutions of the inhomogeneous incompressible Navier-Stokes equations (INS) were proved without assuming positive lower bounds on the initial density, hence allowing for vacuum. Uniqueness, regularity and persistence of boundary re\-gularity of density patches were listed as open problems. A breakthrough on Lions' problems was recently made by Danchin and Mucha [The incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in vacuum, {\em Comm. Pure Appl. Math.}, 72 (2019), 1351--1385] in the case where the fluid domain is either bounded or the torus. However, the case of unbounded domains was left open because of the lack of Poincaré-type inequalities. In this paper, we obtain regularity and uniqueness of Lions' weak solutions for (INS) with \emph{only bounded and nonnegative initial density} and additional regularity only assumed for the initial velocity, in the whole-space case $\mathbb R^d$, $d=2$ or $3$. In particular, our result allows us to study the evolution of a vacuum bubble embedded in an incompressible fluid, as well as a patch of a homogeneous fluid embedded in the vacuum, which provides an answer to Lions' question in the whole-space case.

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arXiv2023

On symmetry breaking for the Navier-Stokes equations

Inspired by an open question by Chemin and Zhang about the regularity of the 3D Navier-Stokes equations with one initially small component, we investigate symmetry breaking and symmetry preservation. Our results fall in three classes. First we prove strong symmetry breaking. Specifically, we demonstrate third component norm inflation (3rdNI) and Isotropic Norm Inflation (INI) starting from zero third component. Second we prove symmetry breaking for initially zero third component, even in the presence of a favorable initial pressure gradient. Third we study certain symmetry preserving solutions with a shear flow structure. Specifically, we give applications to the inviscid limit and exhibit explicit solutions that inviscidly damp to the Kolmogorov flow.

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arXiv2023

Blow-up of dynamically restricted critical norms near a potential Navier-Stokes singularity

In this paper we develop new methods to obtain regularity criteria for the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations in terms of dynamically restricted endpoint critical norms: the critical Lebesgue norm in general or the critical weak Lebesgue norm in the axisymmetric case. This type of results is inspired in particular by a work of Neustupa (2014), which handles certain non endpoint critical norms. Our work enables to have a better understanding of the nonlocal effect of the pressure on the regularity of the solutions.

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arXiv2022

From concentration to quantitative regularity: a short survey of recent developments for the Navier-Stokes equations

In this short survey paper, we focus on some new developments in the study of the regularity or potential singularity formation for solutions of the 3D Navier-Stokes equations. Some of the motivating questions are: Are certain norms accumulating/concentrating on small scales near potential blow-up times? At what speed do certain scale-invariant norms blow-up? Can one prove explicit quantitative regularity estimates? Can one break the criticality barrier, even slightly? We emphasize that these questions are closely linked together. Many recent advances for the Navier-Stokes equations are directly inspired by results and methods from the field of nonlinear dispersive equations.

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arXiv2021

Localized smoothing and concentration for the Navier-Stokes equations in the half space

We establish a local-in-space short-time smoothing effect for the Navier-Stokes equations in the half space. The whole space analogue, due to Jia and Šverák [JŠ14], is a central tool in two of the authors' recent work on quantitative $L^3_x$ blow-up criteria [BP21]. The main difficulty is that the non-local effects of the pressure in the half space are much stronger than in the whole space. As an application, we demonstrate that the critical $L^3_x$ norm must concentrate at scales $\sim \sqrt{T^* - t}$ in the presence of a Type I blow-up.

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arXiv2021

Large-scale regularity for the stationary Navier-Stokes equations over non-Lipschitz boundaries

In this paper we address the large-scale regularity theory for the stationary Navier-Stokes equations in highly oscillating bumpy John domains. These domains are very rough, possibly with fractals or cusps, at the microscopic scale, but are amenable to the mathematical analysis of the Navier-Stokes equations. We prove: (i) a large-scale Calderón-Zygmund estimate, (ii) a large-scale Lipschitz estimate, (iii) large-scale higher-order regularity estimates, namely, $C^{1,γ}$ and $C^{2,γ}$ estimates. These nice regularity results are inherited only at mesoscopic scales, and clearly fail in general at the microscopic scales. We emphasize that the large-scale $C^{1,γ}$ regularity is obtained by using first-order boundary layers constructed via a new argument. The large-scale $C^{2,γ}$ regularity relies on the construction of second-order boundary layers, which allows for certain boundary data with linear growth at spatial infinity. To the best of our knowledge, our work is the first to carry out such an analysis. In the wake of many works in quantitative homogenization, our results strongly advocate in favor of considering the boundary regularity of the solutions to fluid equations as a multiscale problem, with improved regularity at or above a certain scale.

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arXiv2021

Motion of several slender rigid filaments in a Stokes flow

We investigate the dynamics of several slender rigid bodies moving in a flow driven by the three-dimensional steady Stokes system in presence of a smooth background flow. More precisely we consider the limit where the thickness of these slender rigid bodies tends to zero with a common rate $\varepsilon$, while their volumetric mass density is held fixed, so that the bodies shrink into separated massless curves. While for each positive $\varepsilon$, the bodies' dynamics are given by the Newton equations and correspond to some coupled second-order ODEs for the positions of the bodies, we prove that the limit equations are decoupled first-order ODEs whose coefficients only depend on the limit curves and on the background flow. These coefficients appear through appropriate renormalized Stokes resistance tensors associated with each limit curve, and through renormalized Fax\'en-type force and torque associated with the limit curves and the background flow. We establish a rate of convergence of the curves of order $O( \vert \log \varepsilon \vert^{-1/2})$. We also determine the limit effect due to the limit curves on the fluid, in the spirit of the immersed boundary method. Both for the convergence of the filament velocities and the fluid velocities we identify an initial exponential relaxation within a $O(\varepsilon^2 \vert \log \varepsilon \vert)$ time.

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arXiv2021

Mild criticality breaking for the Navier-Stokes equations

In this short paper we prove the global regularity of solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations under the assumption that slightly supercritical quantities are bounded. As a consequence, we prove that if a solution $u$ to the Navier-Stokes equations blows-up, then certain slightly supercritical Orlicz norms must become unbounded. This partially answers a conjecture recently made by Terence Tao. The proof relies on quantitative regularity estimates at the critical level and transfer of subcritical information on the initial data to arbitrarily large times. This method is inspired by a recent paper of Aynur Bulut, where similar results are proved for energy supercritical nonlinear Schrödinger equations.

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arXiv2020

Anisotropy and stratification effects in the dynamics of fast rotating compressible fluids

The primary goal of this paper is to develop robust methods to handle two ubiquitous features appearing in the modeling of geophysical flows: (i) the anisotropy of the viscous stress tensor, (ii) stratification effects. We focus on the barotropic Navier-Stokes equations with Coriolis and gravitational forces. Two results are the main contributions of the paper. Firstly, we establish a local well-posedness result for finite-energy solutions, via a maximal regularity approach. This method allows us to circumvent the use of the effective viscous flux, which plays a key role in the weak solutions theories of Lions-Feireisl and Hoff, but seems to be restricted to isotropic viscous stress tensors. Moreover, our approach is sturdy enough to take into account non constant reference density states; this is crucial when dealing with stratification effects. Secondly, we study the structure of the solutions to the previous model in the regime when the Rossby, Mach and Froude numbers are of the same order of magnitude. We prove an error estimate on the relative entropy between actual solutions and their approximation by a large-scale quasi-geostrophic flow supplemented with Ekman boundary layers. Our analysis holds for a large class of barotropic pressure laws.

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arXiv2020

Quantitative regularity for the Navier-Stokes equations via spatial concentration

This paper is concerned with quantitative estimates for the Navier-Stokes equations. First we investigate the relation of quantitative bounds to the behaviour of critical norms near a potential singularity with Type I bound $\|u\|_{L^{\infty}_{t}L^{3,\infty}_{x}}\leq M$. Namely, we show that if $T^*$ is a first blow-up time and $(0,T^*)$ is a singular point then $$\|u(\cdot,t)\|_{L^{3}(B_{0}(R))}\geq C(M)\log\Big(\frac{1}{T^*-t}\Big),\,\,\,\,\,\,R=O((T^*-t)^{\frac{1}{2}-}).$$ We demonstrate that this potential blow-up rate is optimal for a certain class of potential non-zero backward discretely self-similar solutions. Second, we quantify the result of Seregin (2012), which says that if $u$ is a smooth finite-energy solution to the Navier-Stokes equations on $\mathbb{R}^3\times (0,1)$ with $$\sup_{n}\|u(\cdot,t_{(n)})\|_{L^{3}(\mathbb{R}^3)}<\infty\,\,\,\textrm{and}\,\,\,t_{(n)}\uparrow 1,$$ then $u$ does not blow-up at $t=1$. To prove our results we develop a new strategy for proving quantitative bounds for the Navier-Stokes equations. This hinges on local-in-space smoothing results (near the initial time) established by Jia and Šverák (2014), together with quantitative arguments using Carleman inequalities given by Tao (2019). Moreover, the technology developed here enables us in particular to give a quantitative bound for the number of singular points in a Type I blow-up scenario.

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arXiv2019

Regularity for the stationary Navier-Stokes equations over bumpy boundaries and a local wall law

We investigate regularity estimates for the stationary Navier-Stokes equations above a highly oscillating Lipschitz boundary with the no-slip boundary condition. Our main result is an improved Lipschitz regularity estimate at scales larger than the boundary layer thickness. We also obtain an improved $C^{1,μ}$ estimate and identify the building blocks of the regularity theory, dubbed `Navier polynomials'. In the case when some structure is assumed on the oscillations of the boundary, for instance periodicity, these estimates can be seen as local error estimates. Although we handle the regularity of the nonlinear stationary Navier-Stokes equations, our results do not require any smallness assumption on the solutions.

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arXiv2019

Scale-invariant estimates and vorticity alignment for Navier-Stokes in the half-space with no-slip boundary conditions

This paper is concerned with geometric regularity criteria for the Navier-Stokes equations in $\mathbb{R}^3_{+}\times (0,T)$ with no-slip boundary condition, with the assumption that the solution satisfies the `ODE blow-up rate' Type I condition. More precisely, we prove that if the vorticity direction is uniformly continuous on subsets of $$\bigcup_{t\in(T-1,T)} \big(B(0,R)\cap\mathbb{R}^3_{+}\big)\times {\{t\}},\,\,\,\,\,\, R=O(\sqrt{T-t})$$ where the vorticity has large magnitude, then $(0,T)$ is a regular point. This result is inspired by and improves the regularity criteria given by Giga, Hsu and Maekawa (2014). We also obtain new local versions for suitable weak solutions near the flat boundary. Our method hinges on new scaled Morrey estimates, blow-up and compactness arguments and `persistence of singularites' on the flat boundary. The scaled Morrey estimates seem to be of independent interest.

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arXiv2019

On stability of blow-up solutions of the Burgers vortex type for the Navier-Stokes equations with a linear strain

We study the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations in the presence of the axisymmetric linear strain, where the strain rate depends on time in a specific manner. It is known that the system admits solutions which blow up in finite time and whose profiles are in a backward self-similar form of the familiar Burgers vortices. In this paper it is shown that the existing stability theory of the Burgers vortex leads to the stability of these blow-up solutions as well. The secondary blow-up is also observed when the strain rate is relatively weak.

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arXiv2019

Estimates for the Navier-Stokes equations in the half-space for non localized data

This paper is devoted to the study of the Stokes and Navier-Stokes equations, in a half-space, for initial data in a class of locally uniform Lebesgue integrable functions, namely $L^q_{uloc,σ}(\R^d_+)$. We prove the analyticity of the Stokes semigroup $e^{-t{\bf A}}$ in $L^q_{uloc,σ}(\R^d_+)$ for $1<q\leq\infty$. This follows from the analysis of the Stokes resolvent problem for data in $L^q_{uloc,σ}(\R^d_+)$, $1<q\leq\infty$. We then prove bilinear estimates for the Oseen kernel, which enables to prove the existence of mild solutions. The three main original aspects of our contribution are: (i) the proof of Liouville theorems for the resolvent problem and the time dependent Stokes system under weak integrability conditions, (ii) the proof of pressure estimates in the half-space and (iii) the proof of a concentration result for blow-up solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations. This concentration result improves a recent result by Li, Ozawa and Wang and provides a new proof.

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arXiv2019

Local energy weak solutions for the Navier-Stokes equations in the half-space

The purpose of this paper is to prove the existence of global in time local energy weak solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations in the half-space $\mathbb R^3_+$. Such solutions are sometimes called Lemarié-Rieusset solutions in the whole space $\mathbb R^3$. The main tool in our work is an explicit representation formula for the pressure, which is decomposed into a Helmholtz-Leray part and a harmonic part due to the boundary. We also explain how our result enables to reprove the blow-up of the scale-critical $L^3(\mathbb R^3_+)$ norm obtained by Barker and Seregin for solutions developing a singularity in finite time.

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