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| PROPERTIES OF SOLUTIONS OF n-DIMENSIONAL INCOMPRESSIBLE NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS |
| Linghai Zhang |
| (Dept. of Math., Lehigh University, 17 East Memorial Drive, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015, USA) |
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| Abstract: |
| Consider the n-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations.There exists a global weak solution under some assumptions on the initial function and the external force.
It is well known that the global weak solutions become sufficiently small and smooth after a long time. Here are several very interesting questions about the global weak solutions of the Cauchy problems for the n-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations.
\item Can we establish better decay estimates with sharp rates not only for the global weak solutions but also for all order derivatives of the global weak solutions?
\item Can we accomplish the exact limits of all order derivatives of the global weak solutions in terms of the given information?
\item Can we use the global smooth solution of the linear heat equation, with the same initial function and the external force, to approximate the global weak solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations?
\item If we drop the nonlinear terms in the Navier-Stokes equations, will the exact limits reduce to the exact limits of the solutions of the linear heat equation?
\item Will the exact limits of the derivatives of the global weak solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations and the exact limits of the derivatives of the global smooth solution of the heat equation increase at the same rate as the order m of the derivative increases?
In another word, will the ratio of the exact limits for the derivatives of the global weak solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations be the same as the ratio of the exact limits for the derivatives of the global smooth solutions for the linear heat equation?
The positive solutions to these questions obtained in this paper will definitely help us to better understand the properties of the global weak solutions of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations and hopefully to discover new special structures of the Navier-Stokes equations. |
| Key words: the n-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations; decay estimates with sharp rates; exact limits; appropriate coupling of existing ideas and results; Fourier transformation; Parseval's identity; Lebesgue's dominated convergence theorem; Gagliardo-Nirenberg's interpolation inequality |