Using a three critical points theorem and variational methods, we study the existence of at least three weak solutions of the Navier problem ⎧${\Delta \left(\right|\Delta u|}^{p-2}{\Delta u\left)-div\right(\left|\nabla u\right|}^{p-2}\nabla u)=\lambda f(x,u)+\mu g(x,u)$ in Ω, ⎨ ⎩u = Δu = 0 on ∂Ω, where $\Omega \subset {ℝ}^N$ (N ≥ 1) is a non-empty bounded open set with a sufficiently smooth boundary ∂Ω, λ > 0, μ > 0 and f,g: Ω × ℝ → ℝ are two L¹-Carathéodory functions.

This paper proves a Serrin’s type blow-up criterion for the 3D density-dependent Navier-Stokes-Korteweg equations with vacuum. It is shown that if the density $\rho$ and velocity field $u$ satisfy ${\parallel \nabla \rho \parallel }_{L^{\infty }(0,T;W^{1,q})}+{\parallel u\parallel }_{L^s(0,T;L_{\omega }^r)}<\infty$ for some $q>3$ and any $(r,s)$ satisfying $2/s+3/r\le 1$, $3<r\le \infty ,$ then the strong solutions to the density-dependent Navier-Stokes-Korteweg equations can exist globally over $[0,T]$. Here $L_{\omega }^r$ denotes the weak $L^r$ space.

In this paper we deal with the stationary Navier-Stokes problem in a domain $\Omega$ with compact Lipschitz boundary $\partial \Omega$ and datum $a$ in Lebesgue spaces. We prove existence of a solution for arbitrary values of the fluxes through the connected components of $\partial \Omega$, with possible countable exceptional set, provided $a$ is the sum of the gradient of a harmonic function and a sufficiently small field, with zero total flux for $\Omega$ bounded.

We study higher local integrability of a weak solution to the steady Stokes problem. We consider the case of a pressure- and shear-rate-dependent viscosity, i.e., the elliptic part of the Stokes problem is assumed to be nonlinear and it depends on $p$ and on the symmetric part of a gradient of $u$, namely, it is represented by a stress tensor $T(Du,p):=\nu (p,|D{|}^2)D$ which satisfies $r$-growth condition with $r\in (1,2]$. In order to get the main result, we use Calderón-Zygmund theory and the method which was presented for...

We consider the Keller-Segel-Navier-Stokes system $$\left\{\begin{array}{cc}{n}_t+𝐮·\nabla n=\Delta n-\nabla ·\left(n\nabla v\right),\hfill & x\in \Omega ,t>0,\hfill \\ v_t+𝐮·\nabla v=\Delta v-v+w,\hfill & x\in \Omega ,t>0,\hfill \\ w_t+𝐮·\nabla w=\Delta w-w+n,\hfill & x\in \Omega ,t>0,\hfill \\ {𝐮}_t+(𝐮·\nabla )𝐮=\Delta 𝐮+\nabla P+n\nabla \phi ,\nabla ·𝐮=0,\hfill & x\in \Omega ,t>0,\hfill \end{array}\right.$$ which is considered in bounded domain $\Omega \subset {ℝ}^N$ $(N\in \{2,3\left\}\right)$ with smooth boundary, where $\phi \in C^{1+\delta }\left(\overline{\Omega }\right)$ with $\delta \in (0,1)$. We show that if the initial data $\parallel n_0{\parallel }_{L^{N/2}\left(\Omega \right)}$, $\parallel \nabla v_0{\parallel }_{L^N\left(\Omega \right)}$, $\parallel \nabla w_0{\parallel }_{L^N\left(\Omega \right)}$ and $\parallel {𝐮}_0{\parallel }_{L^N\left(\Omega \right)}$ is small enough, an associated initial-boundary value problem possesses a global classical solution which decays to the constant state $({\overline{n}}_0,{\overline{n}}_0,{\overline{n}}_0,0)$ exponentially with ${\overline{n}}_0:=(1/|\Omega \left|\right){\int }_{\Omega }{n}_0\left(x\right)\mathrm{d}x$.

We deal with the steady Stokes problem, associated with a flow of a viscous incompressible fluid through a spatially periodic profile cascade. Using the reduction to domain $\Omega$, which represents one spatial period, the problem is formulated by means of boundary conditions of three types: the conditions of periodicity on curves ${\Gamma }_{-}$ and ${\Gamma }_{+}$ (lower and upper parts of $\partial \Omega$), the Dirichlet boundary conditions on ${\Gamma }_{\mathrm{in}}$ (the inflow) and ${\Gamma }_0$ (boundary of the profile) and an artificial “do nothing”-type boundary...

Existence of solutions for equations of the nonstationary Stokes system in a bounded domain Ω ⊂ ℝ³ is proved in a class such that velocity belongs to $W_p^{2,1}\left(\Omega \times (0,T)\right)$, and pressure belongs to $W_p^{1,0}\left(\Omega \times (0,T)\right)$ for p > 3. The proof is divided into three steps. First, the existence of solutions with vanishing initial data is proved in a half-space by applying the Marcinkiewicz multiplier theorem. Next, we prove the existence of weak solutions in a bounded domain and then we regularize them. Finally, the problem with...

We prove the existence of solutions to the evolutionary Stokes system in a bounded domain Ω ⊂ ℝ³. The main result shows that the velocity belongs either to $W_p^{2s+2,s+1}\left({\Omega }^T\right)$ or to $B_{p,q}^{2s+2,s+1}\left({\Omega }^T\right)$ with p > 3 and s ∈ ℝ₊ ∪ 0. The proof is divided into two steps. First the existence in $W_p^{2k+2,k+1}$ for k ∈ ℕ is proved. Next applying interpolation theory the existence in Besov spaces in a half space is shown. Finally the technique of regularizers implies the existence in a bounded domain. The result is generalized to the spaces...

We show time regularity of weak solutions for unsteady motion equations of generalized Newtonian fluids described by $p(x,t)$-power law for $p(x,t)\ge (3n+2)/(n+2)$, $n\ge 2,$ by using a higher integrability property and fractional difference method. Moreover, as its application we prove that every weak solution to the problem becomes a local in time strong solution and that it is unique.

The role of the second critical exponent $p=(n+1)/(n-3)$, the Sobolev critical exponent in one dimension less, is investigated for the classical Lane–Emden–Fowler problem $\Delta u+u^p=0$, $u>0$ under zero Dirichlet boundary conditions, in a domain $\Omega$ in ${ℝ}^n$ with bounded, smooth boundary. Given $\Gamma$, a geodesic of the boundary with negative inner normal curvature we find that for $p=(n+1)/(n-3-\epsilon )$, there exists a solution $u_{\epsilon }$ such that $|\nabla u_{\epsilon }{|}^2$ converges weakly to a Dirac measure on $\Gamma$ as $\epsilon \to 0^{+}$, provided that $\Gamma$ is nondegenerate in the sense of second...

We consider sequences of solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations in ${ℝ}^3$, associated with sequences of initial data bounded in ${\dot{H}}^{1/2}$. We prove, in the spirit of the work of H.Bahouri and P.Gérard (in the case of the wave equation), that they can be decomposed into a sum of orthogonal profiles, bounded in ${\dot{H}}^{1/2}$, up to a remainder term small in $L^3$; the method is based on the proof of a similar result for the heat equation, followed by a perturbation–type argument. If $𝒜$ is an “admissible” space (in...

One shows that the linearized Navier-Stokes equation in $𝒪\subset R^d,d\ge 2$, around an unstable equilibrium solution is exponentially stabilizable in probability by an internal noise controller ${\displaystyle V(t,\xi )=\sum _{i=1}^N{V}_i\left(t\right){\psi }_i\left(\xi \right){\dot{\beta }}_i\left(t\right)}$, $\xi \in 𝒪$, where ${\left\{{\beta }_i\right\}}_{i=1}^N$ are independent Brownian motions in a probability space and ${\left\{{\psi }_i\right\}}_{i=1}^N$ is a system of functions on $𝒪$ with support in an arbitrary open subset ${𝒪}_0\subset 𝒪$. The stochastic control input ${\left\{V_i\right\}}_{i=1}^N$ is found in feedback form. One constructs also a tangential boundary noise controller which exponentially stabilizes in probability...

In this paper we consider a nonlinear elliptic equation with critical growth for the operator ${\mathrm{\Delta }}^2$ in a bounded domain $\mathrm{\Omega }\subset {ℝ}^n$. We state some existence results when $n\ge 8$. Moreover, we consider $5\le n\le 7$, expecially when $\mathrm{\Omega }$ is a ball in ${ℝ}^n$.

Estimates of the generalized Stokes resolvent system, i.e. with prescribed divergence, in an infinite cylinder Ω = Σ × ℝ with $\Sigma \subset {ℝ}^{n-1}$, a bounded domain of class $C^{1,1}$, are obtained in the space $L^q(ℝ;L²\left(\Sigma \right))$, q ∈ (1,∞). As a preparation, spectral decompositions of vector-valued homogeneous Sobolev spaces are studied. The main theorem is proved using the techniques of Schauder decompositions, operator-valued multiplier functions and R-boundedness of operator families.

For a Morse function $f$ on a compact oriented manifold $M$, we show that $f$ has more critical points than the number required by the Morse inequalities if and only if there exists a certain class of link in $M$ whose components have nontrivial linking number, such that the minimal value of $f$ on one of the components is larger than its maximal value on the other. Indeed we characterize the precise number of critical points of $f$ in terms of the Betti numbers of $M$ and the behavior of $f$ with respect...

For $n=2m\ge 4$, let $\Omega \in {ℝ}^n$ be a bounded smooth domain and $𝒩\subset {ℝ}^L$ a compact smooth Riemannian manifold without boundary. Suppose that $\left\{u_k\right\}\in W^{m,2}(\Omega ,𝒩)$ is a sequence of weak solutions in the critical dimension to the perturbed $m$-polyharmonic maps $$\frac{\mathrm{d}}{\mathrm{d}t}{|}_{t=0}{E}_m\left(\Pi (u+t\xi )\right)=0$$ with ${\Phi }_k\to 0$ in ${\left(W^{m,2}(\Omega ,𝒩)\right)}^{*}$ and $u_k\rightharpoonup u$ weakly in $W^{m,2}(\Omega ,𝒩)$. Then $u$ is an $m$-polyharmonic map. In particular, the space of $m$-polyharmonic maps is sequentially compact for the weak-$W^{m,2}$ topology.

We study the leading order behaviour of positive solutions of the equation $-\Delta u+ϵu-{\left|u\right|}^{p-2}u+{\left|u\right|}^{q-2}u=0,x\in {ℝ}^N$, where $N\ge 3$, $q>p>2$ and when $ϵ>0$ is a small parameter. We give a complete characterization of all possible asymptotic regimes as a function of $p$, $q$ and $N$. The behavior of solutions depends sensitively on whether $p$ is less, equal or bigger than the critical Sobolev exponent $2^{*}=\frac{2N}{N-2}$. For $p<2^{*}$ the solution asymptotically coincides with the solution of the equation in which the last term is absent. For $p>2^{*}$ the solution asymptotically...