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Yasunori Maekawa

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arXiv2016

The Inviscid Limit and Boundary Layers for Navier-Stokes Flows

The validity of the vanishing viscosity limit, that is, whether solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations modeling viscous incompressible flows converge to solutions of the Euler equations modeling inviscid incompressible flows as viscosity approaches zero, is one of the most fundamental issues in mathematical fluid mechanics. The problem is classified into two categories: the case when the physical boundary is absent, and the case when the physical boundary is present and the effect of the boundary layer becomes significant. The aim of this article is to review recent progress on the mathematical analysis of this problem in each category.

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arXiv2016

Gevrey Stability of Prandtl Expansions for 2D Navier-Stokes

We investigate the stability of boundary layer solutions of the two-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. We consider shear flow solutions of Prandtl type : $$ u^ν(t,x,y) \, = \, \big (U^E(t,y) + U^{BL}(t,\frac{y}{\sqrtν})\,, \, 0 \big )\, , \quad 0<ν\ll 1\,. $$ We show that if $U^{BL}$ is monotonic and concave in $Y = y /\sqrtν$ then $u^ν$ is stable over some time interval $(0,T)$, $T$ independent of $ν$, under perturbations with Gevrey regularity in $x$ and Sobolev regularity in $y$. We improve in this way the classical stability results of Sammartino and Caflisch in analytic class (both in $x$ and $y$). Moreover, in the case where $U^{BL}$ is steady and strictly concave, our Gevrey exponent for stability is optimal. The proof relies on new and sharp resolvent estimates for the linearized Orr-Sommerfeld operator.

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arXiv2013

A Liouville theorem for the planer Navier-Stokes equations with the no-slip boundary condition and its application to a geometric regularity criterion

We establish a Liouville type result for a backward global solution to the Navier-Stokes equations in the half plane with the no-slip boundary condition. No assumptions on spatial decay for the vorticity nor the velocity field are imposed. We study the vorticity equations instead of the original Navier-Stokes equations. As an application, we extend the geometric regularity criterion for the Navier-Stokes equations in the three-dimensional half space under the no-slip boundary condition.

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arXiv2013

On Poisson operators and Dirichlet-Neumann maps in H^s for divergence form elliptic operators with Lipschitz coefficients

We consider second order uniformly elliptic operators of divergence form in $\R^{d+1}$ whose coefficients are independent of one variable. Under the Lipschitz condition on the coefficients we characterize the domain of the Poisson operators and the Dirichlet-Neumann maps in the Sobolev space $H^s(\R^d)$ for each $s\in [0,1]$. Moreover, we also show a factorization formula for the elliptic operator in terms of the Poisson operator.

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arXiv2013

Remark on the Helmholtz decomposition in domains with noncompact boundary

Let $Ω$ be a domain with noncompact boundary. It is known that the Helmholtz decomposition is not always valid in $L^p(Ω)$ except for the energy space $L^2 (Ω)$. In this paper we consider a typical unbounded domain whose boundary is given as a Lipschitz graph, and show that the Helmholtz decomposition holds in certain anisotropic spaces which include some infinite energy vector fields.

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arXiv2013

On domain of Poisson operators and factorization for divergence form elliptic operators

We consider second order uniformly elliptic operators of divergence form in $\R^{d+1}$ whose coefficients are independent of one variable. For such a class of operators we establish a factorization into a product of first order operators related with Poisson operators and Dirichlet-Neumann maps. Consequently, we obtain a solution formula for the inhomogeneous elliptic boundary value problem in the half space, which is useful to show the existence of solutions in a wider class of inhomogeneous data. We also establish $L^2$ solvability of boundary value problems for a new class of the elliptic operators.

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arXiv2012

Long-time asymptotics for two-dimensional exterior flows with small circulation at infinity

We consider the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in a two-dimensional exterior domain, with no-slip boundary conditions. We assume that the initial velocity is a finite-energy and L^q-summable perturbation of the Oseen vortex with circulation α, where 1 < q < 2. If α is sufficiently small, we show that the solution behaves asymptotically in time like the self-similar Oseen vortex with circulation α. This is a global stability result, which holds for arbitrarily large perturbations of the Oseen vortex, and our smallness assumption on the circulation is independent of the domain under consideration.

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arXiv2010

Three-dimensional stability of Burgers vortices

Burgers vortices are explicit stationary solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations which are often used to describe the vortex tubes observed in numerical simulations of three-dimensional turbulence. In this model, the velocity field is a two-dimensional perturbation of a linear straining flow with axial symmetry. The only free parameter is the Reynolds number $Re = Γ/ν$, where $Γ$ is the total circulation of the vortex and $ν$ is the kinematic viscosity. The purpose of this paper is to show that Burgers vortex is asymptotically stable with respect to general three-dimensional perturbations, for all values of the Reynolds number. This definitive result subsumes earlier studies by various authors, which were either restricted to small Reynolds numbers or to two-dimensional perturbations. Our proof relies on the crucial observation that the linearized operator at Burgers vortex has a simple and very specific dependence upon the axial variable. This allows to reduce the full linearized equations to a vectorial two-dimensional problem, which can be treated using an extension of the techniques developped in earlier works. Although Burgers vortices are found to be stable for all Reynolds numbers, the proof indicates that perturbations may undergo an important transient amplification if $Re$ is large, a phenomenon that was indeed observed in numerical simulations.

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