In this paper, we review recent results on wall laws for viscous fluids near rough surfaces, of small amplitude and wavelength ε. When the surface is “genuinely rough”, the wall law at first order is the Dirichlet wall law: the fluid satisfies a “no-slip” boundary condition on the homogenized surface. We compare the various mathematical characterizations of genuine roughness, and the corresponding homogenization results. At the next order, under...

The purpose of this paper is to study a model coupling an incompressible viscous fiuid with an elastic structure in a bounded container. We prove the existence of weak solutions à la Leray as long as no collisions occur.

We prove the existence of weak solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations describing the motion of a fluid in a Y-shaped domain.

The paper is a supplement to a survey by J. Franců: Monotone operators, A survey directed to differential equations, Aplikace Matematiky, 35(1990), 257–301. An abstract existence theorem for the equation $Au=b$ with a coercive weakly continuous operator is proved. The application to boundary value problems for differential equations is illustrated on two examples. Although this generalization of monotone operator theory is not as general as the M-condition, it is sufficient for many technical applications....

Consider the flow of a viscous, incompressible fluid past a rotating obstacle with velocity at infinity parallel to the axis of rotation. After a coordinate transform in order to reduce the problem to a Navier-Stokes system on a fixed exterior domain and a subsequent linearization we are led to a modified Oseen system with two additional terms one of which is not subordinate to the Laplacean. In this paper we describe two different approaches to this problem in the whole space case. One of them...

This paper is dedicated to the study of the initial value problem for density dependent incompressible viscous fluids in ${ℝ}^N$ with $N\ge 2$. We address the question of well-posedness for large and small initial data having critical Besov regularity in functional spaces as close as possible to the ones imposed in the incompressible Navier Stokes system by Cannone, Meyer and Planchon (where $u_0\in B_{p,r}^{\frac{N}{p}-1}$ with $1\le p\<+\infty ,1\le r\le +\infty$). This improves the classical analysis where $u_0$ is considered belonging in $B_{p,1}^{\frac{N}{p}-1}$ such that the velocity $u$ remains...

In this paper, we consider the interaction between a rigid body and an incompressible, homogeneous, viscous fluid. This fluid-solid system is assumed to fill the whole space ${ℝ}^d$, $d=2$ or $3$. The equations for the fluid are the classical Navier-Stokes equations whereas the motion of the rigid body is governed by the standard conservation laws of linear and angular momentum. The time variation of the fluid domain (due to the motion of the rigid body) is not known a priori, so we deal with a free boundary...

These notes are an introduction to the recent paper [7], about the well-posedness of the Prandtl equation. The difficulties and main ideas of the paper are described on a simpler linearized model.

In this paper we show that the Euler equation for incompressible fluids in R2 is well posed in the (vector-valued) Lebesgue spacesLsp = (1 - ∆)-s/2 Lp(R2) with s > 1 + 2/p, 1 < p < ∞and that the same is true of the Navier-Stokes equation uniformly in the viscosity ν.

We present a phase field approach to wetting problems, related to the minimization of capillary energy. We discuss in detail both the Γ-convergence results on which our numerical algorithm are based, and numerical implementation. Two possible choices of boundary conditions, needed to recover Young's law for the contact angle, are presented. We also consider an extension of the classical theory of capillarity, in which the introduction of a dissipation mechanism can explain and predict the hysteresis...