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On the regularity of flows with Ladyzhenskaya Shear‐dependent viscosity and slip or non‐slip boundary conditions
Author(s) -
Beirão da Veiga H.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
communications on pure and applied mathematics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.12
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1097-0312
pISSN - 0010-3640
DOI - 10.1002/cpa.20036
Subject(s) - slip (aerodynamics) , boundary value problem , mathematics , shear viscosity , viscosity , shear (geology) , mathematical analysis , boundary (topology) , turbulence , mechanics , calculus (dental) , geology , physics , thermodynamics , petrology , medicine , dentistry
Navier‐Stokes equations with shear dependent viscosity under the classical non‐slip boundary condition have been introduced and studied, in the sixties, by O. A. Ladyzhenskaya and, in the case of gradient dependent viscosity, by J.‐L. Lions. A particular case is the well known Smagorinsky turbulence model. This is nowadays a central subject of investigation. On the other hand, boundary conditions of slip type seems to be more realistic in some situations, in particular in numerical applications. They are a main research subject. The existence of weak solutions u to the above problems, with slip (or non‐slip) type boundary conditions, is well known in many cases. However, regularity up to the boundary still presents many open questions. In what follows we present some regularity results, in the stationary case, for weak solutions to this kind of problems; see Theorems 3.1 and 3.2. The evolution problem is studied in the forthcoming paper [6]; see the remark at the end of the introduction. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.