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Asymptotic structure of a Leray solution to the Navier–Stokes flow around a rotating body

Reinhard Farwig, Giovanni P. Galdi and Mads Kyed

Vol. 253 (2011), No. 2, 367–382
Abstract

Consider a body, , rotating with constant angular velocity ω and fully submerged in a Navier–Stokes liquid that fills the whole space exterior to  . We analyze the flow of the liquid that is steady with respect to a frame attached to . Our main theorem shows that the velocity field v of any weak solution (v,p) in the sense of Leray has an asymptotic expansion with a suitable Landau solution as leading term and a remainder decaying pointwise like 1|x|1+α as |x|→∞ for any α (0,1), provided the magnitude of ω is below a positive constant depending on α. We also furnish analogous expansions for v and for the corresponding pressure field p. These results improve and clarify a recent result of R. Farwig and T. Hishida.

Keywords
Navier–Stokes equations, asymptotic behavior of solutions, rotating frame
Mathematical Subject Classification 2010
Primary: 35B40, 35Q30, 76U05, 76D05
Milestones
Received: 30 September 2010
Revised: 13 March 2011
Accepted: 15 March 2011
Published: 21 January 2012
Authors
Reinhard Farwig
Fachbereich Mathematik and Center of Smart Interfaces (CSI)
Technische Universität Darmstadt
D-64289 Darmstadt
Germany
Giovanni P. Galdi
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh PA 15261
United States
Mads Kyed
Fachbereich Mathematik
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Schlossgartenstrasse 7
D-64289 Darmstadt
Germany