Two scenarios on a potential smoothness breakdown for the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations

In this paper we construct two families of initial data being arbitrarily large under any scaling-invariant norm for which their corresponding weak solution to the three-dimensional Navier- Stokes equations become smooth on either [0, T1] or [T2,1), respectively, where T1 and T2 are two times prescr...

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Autor: Gutiérrez Santacreu, Juan Vicente
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/89776
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/89776
https://doi.org/10.3934/dcds.2020142
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Navier-Stokes equations
Weak solutions
Strong solutions
Breakdown of smooth solutions
Regularity of solutions
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Sumario:In this paper we construct two families of initial data being arbitrarily large under any scaling-invariant norm for which their corresponding weak solution to the three-dimensional Navier- Stokes equations become smooth on either [0, T1] or [T2,1), respectively, where T1 and T2 are two times prescribed previously. In particular, T1 can be arbitrarily large and T2 can be arbitrarily small. Therefore, possible formation of singularities would occur after a very long or short evolution time, respectively. We further prove that if a large part of the kinetic energy is consumed prior to the first (possible) blow-up time, then the global-in-time smoothness of the solutions follows for the two families of initial data.