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Dragos Iftimie

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arXiv2026

On the Role of the Viscosity Parameters in the Large Time Asymptotics of 2D Micropolar Flows

We investigate the role of the four viscosity parameters, in fluids where the particles possess a microstructure (micropolar flows) and are allowed to rotate in a two-dimensional setting. We first establish the existence of global finite energy solutions, satisfying the classical energy equality, for arbitrary initial data in $L^2$, in the case of a spin viscosity $γ\ge0$, and we construct the asymptotic profiles of the solution as $t\to+\infty$. We deduce the remarkable fact that the large time behavior only depends on the kinematic viscosity $μ$, and not on the other parameters $χ$ (vortex-viscosity), $γ$ (spin viscosity) and $κ$ (gyroviscosity) of the model. Our primary tool is a new enstrophy-like identity of independent interest, involving the difference between the fluid vorticity and the micro-angular velocity. Another consequence of our analysis is the identification of scenarios where the presence of micro-rotational effects significantly enhances dissipation, thereby slowing down the fluid motion at large times.

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arXiv2026

Asymptotic profiles and large-time behavior for 3D micropolar fluid equations with possibly vanishing spin viscosity

We consider 3D micropolar flows with possible vanishing spin viscosity and investigate the decay of the energy for large times. We compute first the exact $L^2$-asymptotic profile, as $t\to+\infty$, for solutions to the linear 3D micropolar equations, up to the second order. For the nonlinear micropolar system, we first establish the existence of restricted Leray solutions. This new notion of solutions is required because it is not known whether the weak finite energy solutions verify a strong energy inequality. Next, we study the large-time behavior of restricted Leray solutions, and prove that they behave asymptotically in $L^2$ like their linear counterpart, up to the critical algebraic decay rate $O(t^{-5/2})$ for the energy. Applying a remarkable linear enstrophy identity, we show that the microrotation field exhibits faster decay in $L^2$ than the velocity field, allowing us to impose our hypothesis on the velocity field only and not on the angular velocity.

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arXiv2024

On the Dynamics of Point Vortices with Positive Intensities collapsing with the boundary

In this paper, we study the point-vortex dynamics with positive intensities. We show that in the half-plane and in a disk, collapses of point vortices with the boundary in finite time are impossible, hence the solution of the dynamics is global in time. We also give some necessary conditions for the existence of collapses with the boundary in general smooth bounded domains, in particular, that the trajectory of at least one point vortex has no limit. Some minor results are obtained with unsigned intensities.

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arXiv2022

The incompressible $α$--Euler equations in the exterior of a vanishing disk

In this article we consider the $α$--Euler equations in the exterior of a small fixed disk of radius $ε$. We assume that the initial potential vorticity is compactly supported and independent of $ε$, and that the circulation of the unfiltered velocity on the boundary of the disk does not depend on $ε$. We prove that the solution of this problem converges, as $ε\to 0$, to the solution of a modified $α$--Euler equation in the full plane where an additional Dirac located at the center of the disk is imposed in the potential vorticity.

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arXiv2020

Long time confinement of vorticity around a stable stationary point vortex in a bounded planar domain

In this paper we consider the incompressible Euler equation in a simply-connected bounded planar domain. We study the confinement of the vorticity around a stationary point vortex. We show that the power law confinement around the center of the unit disk obtained in [2] remains true in the case of a stationary point vortex in a simply-connected bounded domain. The domain and the stationary point vortex must satisfy a condition expressed in terms of the conformal mapping from the domain to the unit disk. Explicit examples are discussed at the end.

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arXiv2018

On the small rigid body limit in 3D incompressible flows

We consider the evolution of a small rigid body in an incompressible viscous fluid filling the whole space. The motion of the fluid is modelled by the Navier-Stokes equations, whereas the motion of the rigid body is described by the conservation law of linear and angular momentum. Under the assumption that the diameter of the rigid body tends to zero and that the density of the rigid body goes to infinity, we prove that the solution of the fluid-rigid body system converges to a solution of the Navier-Stokes equations in the full space without rigid body.

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arXiv2018

A small solid body with large density in a planar fluid is negligible

In this article, we consider a small rigid body moving in a viscous fluid filling the whole plane. We assume that the diameter of the rigid body goes to 0, that the initial velocity has bounded energy and that the density of the rigid body goes to infinity. We prove that the rigid body has no influence on the limit equation by showing convergence of the solutions towards a solution of the Navier-Stokes equations in the full plane.

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arXiv2013

Asymptotics of solutions to the Navier-Stokes system in exterior domains

We consider the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with the Dirichlet boundary condition in an exterior domain of $\mathbb{R}^n$ with $n\geq2$. We compare the long-time behaviour of solutions to this initial-boundary value problem with the long-time behaviour of solutions of the analogous Cauchy problem in the whole space $\mathbb{R}^n$. We find that the long-time asymptotics of solutions to both problems coincide either in the case of small initial data in the weak $L^{n}$-space or for a certain class of large initial data.

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arXiv2013

Weak vorticity formulation for the incompressible Euler equations in domains with boundary

In this article we examine the interaction of incompressible 2D flows with compact material boundaries. Our focus is the dynamic behavior of the circulation of velocity around boundary components and the possible exchange between flow vorticity and boundary circulation in flows with vortex sheet initial data We begin by showing that the velocity can be uniquely reconstructed from the vorticity and boundary component circulations, which allows to recast 2D Euler evolution using vorticity and the circulations as dynamic variables. The weak form of this vortex dynamics formulation of the equations is called the weak vorticity formulation. The main result in this article is the equivalence between the weak velocity and weak vorticity formulations, without sign assumptions. Next, we focus on weak solutions obtained by mollifying initial data and passing to the limit, with the portion of vorticity singular with respect to the Lebesgue measure assumed to be nonnegative. For these solutions we prove that the circulations around each boundary component cannot be smaller than the initial data circulation, so that nonnegative vorticity may be absorbed by the boundary, but not produced by the boundary. In addition, we prove that if the weak solution conserves circulation at the boundary components it is a boundary coupled weak solution, a stronger version of the weak vorticity formulation. We prove existence of a weak solution which conserves circulation at the boundary components if the initial vorticity is integrable. In addition, we discuss the definition of the mechanical force which the flow exerts on material boundary components and its relation with conservation of circulation. Finally, we describe the corresponding results for a bounded domain with holes, and the adaptations required in the proofs.

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arXiv2011

The FENE dumbbell polymer model: existence and uniqueness of solutions for the momentum balance equation

We consider the FENE dumbbell polymer model which is the coupling of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with the corresponding Fokker-Planck-Smoluchowski di ffusion equation. We show global well-posedness in the case of a 2D bounded domain. We assume in the general case that the initial velocity is sufficiently small and the initial probability density is sufficiently close to the equilibrium solution; moreover an additional condition on the coeffcients is imposed. In the corotational case, we only assume that the initial probability density is sufficiently close to the equilibrium solution.

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arXiv1999

Some results on the Navier-Stokes equations in thin 3D domains

We consider the Navier-Stokes equations on thin 3D domains, supplemented mainly with purely periodic boundary conditions or with periodic boundary conditions in the thin direction and homogeneous Dirichlet conditions on the lateral boundary. We prove global existence and uniqueness of solutions for initial data and forcing terms, which are larger and less regular than in previous works. An important tool in the proofs are some Sobolev embeddings into anisotropic L^p-type spaces. Better results are proved in the purely periodic case, where the conservation of enstrophy property is used. We also give a new uniqueness criterium for weak Leray solutions.

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