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We consider the single layer potential associated to the fundamental solution of the time-dependent Oseen system. It is shown this potential belongs to L²(0,∞,H¹(Ω)³) and to H¹(0,∞,V') if the layer function is in L²(∂Ω×(0,∞)³). (Ω denotes the complement of a bounded Lipschitz set; V denotes the set of smooth solenoidal functions in H¹₀(Ω)³.) This result means that the usual weak solution of the time-dependent Oseen function with zero initial data and zero body force may be represented by a single...

We consider numerical approximations of stationary incompressible Navier-Stokes flows in 3D exterior domains, with nonzero velocity at infinity. It is shown that a P1-P1 stabilized finite element method proposed by C. Rebollo: A term by term stabilization algorithm for finite element solution of incompressible flow problems, Numer. Math. 79 (1998), 283–319, is stable when applied to a Navier-Stokes flow in a truncated exterior domain with a pointwise boundary condition on the artificial boundary....

We consider the homogeneous time-dependent Oseen system in the whole space ${ℝ}^3$. The initial data is assumed to behave as $O\left(\right|x{|}^{-1-ϵ})$, and its gradient as $O\left(\right|x{|}^{-3/2-ϵ})$, when $\left|x\right|$ tends to infinity, where $ϵ$ is a fixed positive number. Then we show that the velocity $u$ decays according to the equation $\left|u(x,t)\right|=O\left(\right|x{|}^{-1})$, and its spatial gradient ${\nabla }_{x}u$ decreases with the rate ${\left|x\right|}^{-3/2}$, for $\left|x\right|$ tending to infinity, uniformly with respect to the time variable $t$. Since these decay rates are optimal even in the stationary case, they should also be the best possible...