Trevor Leslie : Energy Balance Criteria for the Navier-Stokes Equations

Posted by Wes Townsend , part of the Graduate Student Colloquium.

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Nov. 14, 2016, 1 p.m.

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SEO 636

Abstract

Let $u$ be a solution to the classical 3D Navier-Stokes equations. If $u$ is smooth, then we know that $u$ satisfies a certain energy balance relation. But what if $u$ is not smooth? It has been known since the 1960s (by a result of Lions) that u satisfies the energy balance relation if $u$ is $L^4$ integrable in both time and space. We give new regularity conditions on $u$ that guarantee energy balance; our conditions depend on both the integrability of $u$ and the Hausdorff dimension $d$ of the singularity set. We recover Lions’ result when $d = 1$ and improve upon it when $d < 1$ or when the singularity set is confined to a single time-slice. This is joint work with Roman Shvydkoy.