Long-time asymptotics of the Navier-Stokes and vorticity equations on R^3

Details Long-time asymptotics of the Navier-Stokes and vorticity equations on R^3 Long-time asymptotics of the Navier-Stokes and vorticity equations on R^3

2001-02-26

arxiv.org/abs/math/0102198v1

Mathematics

Analysis of PDEs

32 pages, 2 figures

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We use the vorticity formulation to study the long-time behavior of solutions to the Navier-Stokes equation on R^3. We assume that the initial vorticity is small and decays algebraically at infinity. After introducing self-similar variables, we compute the long-time asymptotics of the rescaled vorticity equation up to second order. Each term in the asymptotics is a self-similar divergence-free vector field with Gaussian decay at infinity, and the coefficients in the expansion can be determined by solving a finite system of ordinary differential equations. As a consequence of our results, we are able to characterize the set of solutions for which the velocity field converges to zero faster than t^(-5/4) in energy norm. In particular, we show that these solutions lie on a smooth invariant submanifold of codimension 11 in our function space.

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