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14.—Global Non-existence of Solutions to Ladyzhenskaya's Variants of the Navier-Stokes Equations Backward in Time

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2012

Brian Straughan
Brian Straughan
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Department of Mathematics, University of Glasgow.
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Synopsis

It is shown that classical solutions backward in time to the alternatives to the Navier-Stokes equations proposed by Ladyzhenskaya cannot exist for all time. Estimates are obtained for the maximum interval of existence.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 75 , Issue 2 , 1976 , pp. 165 - 170
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1976

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