On the complement of the unit disk $B$ we consider solutions of the equations describing the stationary flow of an incompressible fluid with shear dependent viscosity. We show that the velocity field $u$ is equal to zero provided ${u|}_{\partial B}=0$ and ${lim}_{\left|x\right|\to \infty }{\left|x\right|}^{1/3}\left|u\left(x\right)\right|=0$ uniformly. For slow flows the latter condition can be replaced by ${lim}_{\left|x\right|\to \infty }\left|u\left(x\right)\right|=0$ uniformly. In particular, these results hold for the classical Navier-Stokes case.

In this paper, we consider the well-known Fattorini’s criterion for approximate controllability of infinite dimensional linear systems of type y′ = Ay + Bu. We precise the result proved by Fattorini in [H.O. Fattorini, SIAM J. Control 4 (1966) 686–694.] for bounded input B, in the case where B can be unbounded or in the case of finite-dimensional controls. More precisely, we prove that if Fattorini’s criterion is satisfied and if the set of geometric multiplicities of A is bounded then approximate...

We study the generalized Oldroyd model with viscosity depending on the shear stress behaving like ${\mu \left(D\right)\sim \left|D\right|}^{p-2}$ (p > 6/5), regularized by a nonlinear stress diffusion. Using the Lipschitz truncation method we prove global existence of a weak solution to the corresponding system of partial differential equations.

This paper deals with the global well-posedness of the $3$D axisymmetric Euler equations for initial data lying in critical Besov spaces $B_{p,1}^{1+\frac{3}{p}}$. In this case the BKM criterion is not known to be valid and to circumvent this difficulty we use a new decomposition of the vorticity .

We study the $N$-dimensional Boussinesq system with dissipation and diffusion generalized in terms of fractional Laplacians. In particular, we show that given the critical dissipation, a solution pair remains smooth for all time even with zero diffusivity. In the supercritical case, we obtain component reduction results of regularity criteria and smallness conditions for the global regularity in dimensions two and three.

We consider the spatial behavior of the velocity field $u(x,t)$ of a fluid filling the whole space ${ℝ}^n$ ($n\ge 2$) for arbitrarily small values of the time variable. We improve previous results on the spatial spreading by deducing the necessary conditions $\int u_h(x,t)u_k(x,t)\mathrm{d}x=c\left(t\right){\delta }_{h,k}$ under more general assumptions on the localization of $u$. We also give some new examples of solutions which have a stronger spatial localization than in the generic case.

We consider the spatial behavior of the velocity field u(x, t) of a fluid filling the whole space ${}^n$ ($n\ge 2$) for arbitrarily small values of the time variable. We improve previous results on the spatial spreading by deducing the necessary conditions $\int u_h(x,t)u_k(x,t)\mathrm{d}x=c\left(t\right){\delta }_{h,k}$ under more general assumptions on the localization of u. We also give some new examples of solutions which have a stronger spatial localization than in the generic case.

We establish regularity results up to the boundary for solutions to generalized Stokes and Navier–Stokes systems of equations in the stationary and evolutive cases. Generalized here means the presence of a shear dependent viscosity. We treat the case $p\ge 2$. Actually, we are interested in proving regularity results in $L^q\left(\Omega \right)$ spaces for all the second order derivatives of the velocity and all the first order derivatives of the pressure. The main aim of the present paper is to extend our previous scheme, introduced...

We study a linear system of equations arising from fluid motion around a moving rigid body, where rotation is included. Originally, the coordinate system is attached to the fluid, which means that the domain is changing with respect to time. To get a problem in the fixed domain, the problem is rewritten in the coordinate system attached to the body. The aim of the present paper is the proof of the existence of a strong solution in a weighted Lebesgue space. In particular, we prove the existence...

We consider a model for the viscoelastic fluid which has recently been studied in [4] and [1]. We show the local-in-time existence of a strong solution to the corresponding system of partial differential equations under less regularity assumptions on the initial data than in the above mentioned papers. The main difference in our approach is the use of the $L^p$ theory for the Stokes system.

We consider the problem of motion of several rigid bodies in a viscous fluid. Both compressible and incompressible fluids are studied. In both cases, the existence of globally defined weak solutions is established regardless possible collisions of two or more rigid objects.

This article deals with the solvability of the boundary-value problem for the Navier-Stokes equations with a direction-dependent Navier type slip boundary condition in a bounded domain. Such problems arise when steady flows of fluids in domains with rough boundaries are approximated as flows in domains with smooth boundaries. It is proved by means of the Galerkin method that the boundary-value problem has a unique weak solution when the body force and the variability of the surface friction are...

We consider an optimal control problem for a class of non-linear elliptic equations. A result of existence and uniqueness of the state equation is proven under weaker hypotheses than in the literature. We also prove the existence of an optimal control. Applications to some lubrication problems and numerical results are given.