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Existence of Leray's Self-Similar Solutions of the Navier-Stokes Equations In $\mathcal{D}\,\subset \,{{\mathbb{R}}^{3}}$

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Xinyu He
Xinyu He*
Affiliation:
Mathematics Institute University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7AL United Kingdom
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Abstract

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Leray's self-similar solution of the Navier-Stokes equations is defined by

$$u(x,\,t)\,=\,U(y)/\sqrt{2\sigma ({{t}^{*}}\,-\,t)},$$

where $y\,=\,x/\sqrt{2\sigma ({{t}^{*}}\,-\,t)},\,\sigma \,>\,0$. Consider the equation for $U(y)$ in a smooth bounded domain $\mathcal{D}$ of ${{\mathbb{R}}^{3}}$ with non-zero boundary condition:

$$-v\,\Delta \,U\,+\,\sigma U\,+\,\sigma y\,\cdot \,\nabla U\,+\,U\,\cdot \,\nabla U\,+\,\nabla P\,=\,0,\,\,\,y\,\in \,\mathcal{D}\,$$
$$\nabla \,\cdot \,U\,=\,0,\,\,\,y\,\in \,\mathcal{D},$$
$$U\,=\,\mathcal{G}(y),\,\,\,y\,\in \,\partial \mathcal{D}.$$

We prove an existence theorem for the Dirichlet problem in Sobolev space ${{W}^{1,2}}(\mathcal{D})$. This implies the local existence of a self-similar solution of the Navier-Stokes equations which blows up at $t\,=\,{{t}^{*}}$ with ${{t}^{*}}\,<\,+\infty $, provided the function $\mathcal{G}(y)$ is permissible.

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76D0576B03
Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 47 , Issue 1 , 01 March 2004 , pp. 30 - 37
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2004

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