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arXiv2019

Controllability of the Navier-Stokes equation in a rectangle with a little help of a distributed phantom force

We consider the 2D incompressible Navier-Stokes equation in a rectangle with the usual no-slip boundary condition prescribed on the upper and lower boundaries. We prove that for any positive time, for any finite energy initial data, there exist controls on the left and right boundaries and a distributed force, which can be chosen arbitrarily small in any Sobolev norm in space, such that the corresponding solution is at rest at the given final time. Our work improves earlier results where the distributed force is small only in a negative Sobolev space. It is a further step towards an answer to Jacques-Louis Lions' question about the small-time global exact boundary controllability of the Navier-Stokes equation with the no-slip boundary condition, for which no distributed force is allowed. Our analysis relies on the well-prepared dissipation method already used for Burgers and for Navier-Stokes in the case of the Navier slip-with-friction boundary condition. In order to handle the larger boundary layers associated with the no-slip boundary condition, we perform a preliminary regularization into analytic functions with arbitrarily large analytic radius and prove a long-time nonlinear Cauchy-Kovalevskaya estimate relying only on horizontal analyticity.

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arXiv2019

Dynamics of several rigid bodies in a two-dimensional ideal fluid and convergence to vortex systems

We consider the motion of several solids in a bounded cavity filled with a perfect incompressible fluid, in two dimensions. The solids move according to Newton's law, under the influence of the fluid's pressure, and the fluid dynamics is driven by the 2D incompressible Euler equations, which are set on the time-dependent domain corresponding to the cavity deprived of the sets occupied by the solids. We assume that the fluid vorticity is initially bounded and that the circulations around the solids may be non-zero. The existence of a unique corresponding solution, à la Yudovich, to this system, up to a possible collision, is known. In this paper we identify the limit dynamics of the system when the radius of some of the solids converge to zero depending on how, for each body, the inertia is scaled with the radius. We obtain in the limit some point vortex systems for the solids converging to particles and a form of Newton's law for the solids that have a fixed radius; for the fluid we obtain an Euler-type system. This extends earlier works to the case of several moving rigid bodies. A crucial point is to understand the interaction, through the fluid, between small moving solids, and for that we use some normal forms of the ODEs driving the motion of the solids in two steps: first we use a normal form for the system coupling the time-evolution of all the solids to obtain a rough estimate of the acceleration of the bodies, then we turn to some normal forms that are specific to each small solid, with an appropriate modulation related to the influence of the other solids and of the fluid vorticity, to obtain some precise uniform a priori estimates of the velocities of the bodies, and then pass to the limit.

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arXiv2019

External boundary control of the motion of a rigid body immersed in a perfect two-dimensional fluid

We consider the motion of a rigid body due to the pressure of a surrounded two-dimensional irrotational perfect incompressible fluid, the whole system being confined in a bounded domain with an impermeable condition on a part of the external boundary. Thanks to an impulsive control strategy we prove that there exists an appropriate boundary condition on the remaining part of the external boundary (allowing some fluid going in and out the domain) such that the immersed rigid body is driven from some given initial position and velocity to some final position and velocity in a given positive time, without touching the external boundary. The controlled part of the external boundary is assumed to have a nonvoid interior and the final position is assumed to be in the same connected component of the set of possible positions as the initial position.

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arXiv2019

Dynamics of rigid bodies in a two dimensional incompressible perfect fluid

We consider the motion of several rigid bodies immersed in a two-dimensional incompress-ible perfect fluid, the whole system being bounded by an external impermeable fixed boundary. The fluid motion is described by the incompressible Euler equations and the motion of the rigid bodies is given by Newton's laws with forces due to the fluid pressure. We prove that, for smooth solutions, Newton's equations can be recast as a second-order ODE for the degrees of freedom of the rigid bodies with coefficients depending on the fluid vorticity and on the circulations around the bodies, but not anymore on the fluid pressure. This reformulation highlights geodesic aspects linked to the added mass effect, gyroscopic features generalizing the Kutta-Joukowski-type lift force, including body-body interactions through the potential flows induced by the bodies' motions, body-body interactions through the irrotational flows induced by the bodies' circulations, and interactions between the bodies and the fluid vorticity.

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arXiv2019

On the controllability of the Navier-Stokes equation in a rectangle, with a little help of a distributed phantom force

This note echoes the talk given by the second author during the Journées EDP 2018 in Obernai. Its aim is to provide an overview and a sketch of proof of the result obtained by the authors, concerning the controllability of the Navier-Stokes equation. We refer the interested readers to the original paper for the full technical details of the proof, which will be omitted here, to focus on the main underlying ideas.

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arXiv2017

Point vortex dynamics as zero-radius limit of the motion of a rigid body in an irrotational fluid

The point vortex system is usually considered as an idealized model where the vorticity of an ideal incompressible two-dimensional fluid is concentrated in a finite number of moving points. In the case of a single vortex in an otherwise irrotational ideal fluid occupying a bounded and simply-connected two-dimensional domain the motion is given by the so-called Kirchhoff-Routh velocity which depends only on the domain. The main result of this paper establishes that this dynamics can also be obtained as the limit of the motion of a rigid body immersed in such a fluid when the body shrinks to a massless point particle with fixed circulation. The rigid body is assumed to be only accelerated by the force exerted by the fluid pressure on its boundary, the fluid velocity and pressure being given by the incompressible Euler equations, with zero vorticity. The circulation of the fluid velocity around the particle is conserved as time proceeds according to Kelvin's theorem and gives the strength of the limit point vortex. We also prove that in the different regime where the body shrinks with a fixed mass the limit dynamics is governed by a second-order differential equation involving a Kutta-Joukowski-type lift force.

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arXiv2017

On the "viscous incompressible fluid + rigid body" system with Navier conditions

In this paper we consider the motion of a rigid body in a viscous incompressible fluid when some Navier slip conditions are prescribed on the body's boundary. The whole system "viscous incompressible fluid + rigid body" is assumed to occupy the full space $\R^{3}$. We start by proving the existence of global weak solutions to the Cauchy problem. Then, we exhibit several properties of these solutions. First, we show that the added-mass effect can be computed which yields better-than-expected regularity (in time) of the solid velocity-field. More precisely we prove that the solid translation and rotation velocities are in the Sobolev space $H^1$. Second, we show that the case with the body fixed can be thought as the limit of infinite inertia of this system, that is when the solid density is multiplied by a factor converging to $+\infty$. Finally we prove the convergence in the energy space of weak solutions "à la Leray" to smooth solutions of the system "inviscid incompressible fluid + rigid body" as the viscosity goes to zero, till the lifetime $T$ of the smooth solution of the inviscid system. Moreover we show that the rate of convergence is optimal with respect to the viscosity and that the solid translation and rotation velocities converge in $H^1 (0,T)$.

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arXiv2017

A Kato type criterion for the zero viscosity limit of the incompressible Navier-Stokes flows with vortex sheets data

There are a few examples of solutions to the incompressible Euler equations which are piecewise smooth with a discontinuity of the tangential velocity across a hypersurface evolving in time: the so-called vortex sheets. An important open problem is to determine whether or not these solutions can be obtained as zero viscosity limits of the incompressible Navier-Stokes solutions in the energy space. In this paper we establish a couple of sufficient conditions similar to the one obtained by Kato in [T.~Kato. Remarks on zero viscosity limit for nonstationary Navier-Stokes flows with boundary. Seminar on nonlinear partial differential equations, 85-98, Math. Sci. Res. Inst. Publ., 2, 1984] for the convergence of Leray solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations in a bounded domain with no-slip condition towards smooth solutions to the Euler equation.

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arXiv2017

On the effect of polydispersity and rotation on the Brinkman force induced by a cloud of particles on a viscous incompressible flow

In this paper, we are interested in the collective friction of a cloud of particles on the viscous incompressible fluid in which they are moving. The particles velocities are assumed to be given and the fluid is assumed to be driven by the stationary Stokes equations. We consider the limit where the number N of particles goes to infinity with their diameters of order 1/N and their mutual distances of order (1/N)^{1/3}. The rigorous convergence of the fluid velocity to a limit which is solution to a stationary Stokes equation set in the full space but with an extra term, referred to as the Brinkman force, was proven by Desvillettes, Golse and Ricci when the particles are identical spheres in prescribed translations. Our result here is an extension to particles of arbitrary shapes in prescribed translations and rotations. The limit Stokes-Brinkman system involves the particle distribution in position, velocity and shape, through the so-called Stokes' resistance matrices.

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arXiv2017

On the controllability of the Navier-Stokes equation in spite of boundary layers

In this proceeding we expose a particular case of a recent result obtained by the authors regarding the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in a smooth bounded and simply connected bounded domain, either in 2D or in 3D, with a Navier slip-with-friction boundary condition except on a part of the boundary. This under-determination encodes that one has control over the remaining part of the boundary. We prove that for any initial data, for any positive time, there exists a weak Leray solution which vanishes at this given time.

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arXiv2017

Small-time global exact controllability of the Navier-Stokes equation with Navier slip-with-friction boundary conditions

In this work, we investigate the small-time global exact controllability of the Navier-Stokes equation, both towards the null equilibrium state and towards weak trajectories. We consider a viscous incompressible fluid evolving within a smooth bounded domain, either in 2D or in 3D. The controls are only located on a small part of the boundary, intersecting all its connected components. On the remaining parts of the boundary, the fluid obeys a Navier slip-with-friction boundary condition. Even though viscous boundary layers appear near these uncontrolled boundaries, we prove that small-time global exact controllability holds. Our analysis relies on the controllability of the Euler equation combined with asymptotic boundary layer expansions. Choosing the boundary controls with care enables us to guarantee good dissipation properties for the residual boundary layers, which can then be exactly canceled using local techniques.

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arXiv2014

On the motion of a small light body immersed in a two dimensional incompressible perfect fluid with vorticity

In this paper we consider the motion of a rigid body immersed in a two dimensional unbounded incompressible perfect fluid with vorticity. We prove that when the body shrinks to a massless pointwise particle with fixed circulation, the "fluid+rigid body" system converges to the vortex-wave system introduced by Marchioro and Pulvirenti in [11]. This extends both the paper [2] where the case of a solid tending to a massive pointwise particle was tackled and the paper [3] where the massless case was considered but in a bounded cavity filled with an irrotational fluid.

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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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arXiv2013

On the weak solutions to the Maxwell-Landau-Lifshitz equations and to the Hall-Magneto-Hydrodynamic equations

In this paper we deal with weak solutions to the Maxwell-Landau-Lifshitz equations and to the Hall-Magneto-Hydrodynamic equations. First we prove that these solutions satisfy some weak-strong uniqueness property. Then we investigate the validity of energy identities. In particular we give a sufficient condition on the regularity of weak solutions to rule out anomalous dissipation. In the case of the Hall-Magneto-Hydrodynamic equations we also give a sufficient condition to guarantee the magneto-helicity identity. Our conditions correspond to the same heuristic scaling as the one introduced by Onsager in hydrodynamic theory. Finally we examine the sign, locally, of the anomalous dissipations of weak solutions obtained by some natural approximation processes.

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arXiv2012

On the inviscid limit for the compressible Navier-Stokes system in an impermeable bounded domain

In this paper we investigate the issue of the inviscid limit for the compressible Navier-Stokes system in an impermeable fixed bounded domain. We consider two kinds of boundary conditions. The first one is the no-slip condition. In this case we extend the famous conditional result obtained by Kato in the homogeneous incompressible case. Kato proved that if the energy dissipation rate of the viscous flow in a boundary layer of width proportional to the viscosity vanishes then the solutions of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations converge to some solutions of the incompressible Euler equations in the energy space. We provide here a natural extension of this result to the compressible case. The other case is the Navier condition which encodes that the fluid slips with some friction on the boundary. In this case we show that the convergence to the Euler equations holds true in the energy space, as least when the friction is not too large. In both cases we use in a crucial way some relative energy estimates proved recently by Feireisl, Ja Jin and Novotn{ý}.

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arXiv2012

Uniqueness results for weak solutions of two-dimensional fluid-solid systems

In this paper, we consider two systems modelling the evolution of a rigid body in an incompressible fluid in a bounded domain of the plane. The first system corresponds to an inviscid fluid driven by the Euler equation whereas the other one corresponds to a viscous fluid driven by the Navier-Stokes system. In both cases we investigate the uniqueness of weak solutions, "à la Yudovich" for the Euler case, "à la Leray" for the Navier-Stokes case, as long as no collision occurs.

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