We examine the regularity of solutions to the Stokes system in a neighbourhood of the distinguished axis under the assumptions that the initial velocity v₀ and the external force f belong to some weighted Sobolev spaces. It is assumed that the weight is the (-μ )th power of the distance to the axis. Let $f\in L_{2,-\mu }$, $v₀\in H_{-\mu }¹$, μ ∈ (0,1). We prove an estimate of the velocity in the $H_{-\mu }^{2,1}$ norm and of the gradient of the pressure in the norm of $L_{2,-\mu }$. We apply the Fourier transform with respect to the variable along...

We consider the time-periodic Oseen flow around a rotating body in ℝ³. We prove a priori estimates in $L^q$-spaces of weak solutions for the whole space problem under the assumption that the right-hand side has the divergence form. After a time-dependent change of coordinates the problem is reduced to a stationary Oseen equation with the additional term -(ω ∧ x)·∇u + ω ∧ u in the equation of momentum where ω denotes the angular velocity. We prove the existence of generalized weak solutions...

We study the Cauchy problem for the non-Newtonian incompressible fluid with the viscous part of the stress tensor ${\tau }^V\left(𝕖\right)=\tau \left(𝕖\right)-2{\mu }_1\Delta 𝕖$, where the nonlinear function $\tau \left(𝕖\right)$ satisfies ${\tau }_{ij}\left(𝕖\right)e_{ij}\ge c{\left|𝕖\right|}^p$ or ${\tau }_{ij}\left(𝕖\right)e_{ij}\ge {c\left(\right|𝕖|}^2+{\left|𝕖\right|}^p)$. First, the model for the bipolar fluid is studied and existence, uniqueness and regularity of the weak solution is proved for $p>1$ for both models. Then, under vanishing higher viscosity ${\mu }_1$, the Cauchy problem for the monopolar fluid is considered. For the first model the existence of the weak solution is proved for $p>\frac{3n}{n+2}$, its uniqueness...

A space-time formulation for unsteady inviscid compressible flow computations in 2D moving geometries is presented. The governing equations in Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian formulation (ALE) are discretized on two layers of space-time finite elements connecting levels $n$, $n+1/2$ and $n+1$. The solution is approximated with linear variation in space (P1 triangle) combined with linear variation in time. The space-time residual from the lower layer of elements is distributed to the nodes at level...

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 study the behavior of a continuous flow near a boundary. We prove that if φ is a flow on $E={ℝ}^{n+1}$ for which $\partial E={ℝ}^n\times 0$ is an invariant set and S ⊂ ∂E is an isolated invariant set, with non-zero homological Conley index, then there exists an x in EE such that either α(x) or ω(x) is in S. We also prove an index theorem for a flow on ${ℝ}^n\times [0,\infty )$.

Global-in-time existence of solutions for incompressible magnetohydrodynamic fluid equations in a bounded domain Ω ⊂ ℝ³ with the boundary slip conditions is proved. The proof is based on the potential method. The existence is proved in a class of functions such that the velocity and the magnetic field belong to $W_p^{2,1}\left(\Omega \times (0,T)\right)$ and the pressure q satisfies $\nabla q\in L_p\left(\Omega \times (0,T)\right)$ for p ≥ 7/3.

We present a novel approach for bounding the resolvent of $$H=-\Delta +i(A·\nabla +\nabla ·A)+V=:-\Delta +L1$$ for large energies. It is shown here that there exist a large integer $m$ and a large number ${\lambda }_0$ so that relative to the usual weighted $L^2$-norm, $$\parallel {\left(L{(-\Delta +(\lambda +i0))}^{-1}\right)}^m\parallel <\frac{1}{2}2$$ for all $\lambda >{\lambda }_0$. This requires suitable decay and smoothness conditions on $A,V$. The estimate (2) is trivial when $A=0$, but difficult for large $A$ since the gradient term exactly cancels the natural decay of the free resolvent. To obtain (2), we introduce a conical decomposition of the resolvent and...

The self-consistent chemotaxis-fluid system $$\left\{\begin{array}{cc}{n}_t+u·\nabla n=\Delta n-\nabla ·\left(n\nabla c\right)+\nabla ·\left(n\nabla \phi \right),\hfill & x\in \Omega ,t>0,\hfill \\ c_t+u·\nabla c=\Delta c-nc,\hfill & x\in \Omega ,t>0,\hfill \\ u_t+\kappa (u·\nabla )u+\nabla P=\Delta u-n\nabla \phi +n\nabla c,\hfill & x\in \Omega ,t>0,\hfill \\ \nabla ·u=0,\hfill & x\in \Omega ,t>0,\hfill \end{array}\right.$$ is considered under no-flux boundary conditions for $n,c$ and the Dirichlet boundary condition for $u$ on a bounded smooth domain $\Omega \subset {ℝ}^N$ $(N=2,3)$, $\kappa \in \{0,1\}$. The existence of global bounded classical solutions is proved under a smallness assumption on $\parallel c_0{\parallel }_{L^{\infty }\left(\Omega \right)}$. Both the effect of gravity (potential force) on cells and the effect of the chemotactic force on fluid are considered here, and thus the coupling is stronger than the most studied chemotaxis-fluid...

We prove an estimate for the difference of two solutions of the Schrödinger map equation for maps from $T^1$ to $S^2.$ This estimate yields some continuity properties of the flow map for the topology of $L^2(T^1,S^2)$, provided one takes its quotient by the continuous group action of $T^1$ given by translations. We also prove that without taking this quotient, for any $t\&gt;0$ the flow map at time $t$ is discontinuous as a map from ${𝒞}^{\infty }(T^1,S^2)$, equipped with the weak topology of $H^{1/2},$ to the space of distributions ${\left({𝒞}^{\infty }(T^1,{ℝ}^3)\right)}^{*}.$ The argument relies...

We show that the only flow solving the stochastic differential equation (SDE) on $ℝ$ $$\mathrm{d}{X}_t=1_{\{X_{t}gt;0\}}{W}^{+}\left(\mathrm{d}t\right)+1_{\{X_{t}lt;0\}}\mathrm{d}{W}^{-}\left(\mathrm{d}t\right),$$ where $W^{+}$ and $W^{-}$ are two independent white noises, is a coalescing flow we will denote by ${\varphi }^{\pm }$. The flow ${\varphi }^{\pm }$ is a Wiener solution of the SDE. Moreover, $K^{+}=𝖤\left[{\delta }_{{\varphi }^{\pm }}\right|W^{+}]$ is the unique solution (it is also a Wiener solution) of the SDE $$K_{s,t}^{+}f\left(x\right)=f\left(x\right)+{\int }_s^t{K}_{s,u}\left(1_{ℝ}^{+}{f}^{\text{'}}\right)\left(x\right)W^{+}\left(\mathrm{d}u\right)+\frac{1}{2}{\int }_s^t{K}_{s,u}f``\left(x\right)\mathrm{d}u$$ for $slt;t$, $x\in ℝ$ and $f$ a twice continuously differentiable function. A third flow ${\varphi }^{+}$ can be constructed out of the $n$-point motions of $K^{+}$. This flow is coalescing and its $n$-point motion...

Significant information about the topology of a bounded domain $\Omega$ of a Riemannian manifold $M$ is encoded into the properties of the distance, $d_{\partial \Omega }$, from the boundary of $\Omega$. We discuss recent results showing the invariance of the singular set of the distance function with respect to the generalized gradient flow of $d_{\partial \Omega }$, as well as applications to homotopy equivalence.

Let $\left(z\right)={\sum }_{n=1}^{\infty }\mu \left(n\right)z^n$. We prove that for each root of unity $e\left(\beta \right)=e^{2\pi i\beta }$ there is an a > 0 such that $\left(e\left(\beta \right)r\right)=\Omega \left({(1-r)}^{-a}\right)$ as r → 1-. For roots of unity e(l/q) with q ≤ 100 we prove that these omega-estimates are true with a = 1/2. From omega-estimates for (z) we obtain omega-estimates for some finite sums.

We study vortices for solutions of the perturbed Ginzburg–Landau equations $\Delta u+(u/{\epsilon }^2){\left(1-\right|u|}^2)=f_{\epsilon }$ where $f_{\epsilon }$ is estimated in $L^2$. We prove upper bounds for the Ginzburg–Landau energy in terms of $\parallel f_{\epsilon }{\parallel }_{L^2}$, and obtain lower bounds for $\parallel f_{\epsilon }{\parallel }_{L^2}$ in terms of the vortices when these form “unbalanced clusters” where ${\sum }_i{d}_i^2\ne {\left({\sum }_i{d}_i\right)}^2$. These results will serve in Part II of this paper to provide estimates on the energy-dissipation rates for solutions of the Ginzburg–Landau heat flow, which allow one to study various phenomena occurring in this flow,...