We give a new proof of a well-known result of Koch and Tataru on the well-posedness of Navier-Stokes equations in $R^n$ with small initial data in $BMO^{-1}(R^n)$. The proof is formulated operator theoretically and does not make use of self-adjointness of the Laplacian.
We develop a strategy making extensive use of tent spaces to study parabolic equa-tions with quadratic nonlinearities as for the Navier-Stokes system. We begin with a new proof of the well-known result of Koch and Tataru on the well-posedness of Navier-Stokes equations in R^n with small initial data in BMO^{-1}(R^n). We then study another model where neither pointwise kernel bounds nor self-adjointness are available.
We study the Cauchy problem in $n$-dimensional space for the system of Navier-Stokes equations in critical mixed-norm Lebesgue spaces. Local well-posedness and global well-posedness of solutions are established in the class of critical mixed-norm Lebesgue spaces. Being in the mixed-norm Lebesgue spaces, both of the initial data and the solutions could be singular at certain points or decaying to zero at infinity with different rates in different spatial variable directions. Some of these singular rates could be very strong and some of the decaying rates could be significantly slow. Besides other interests, the results of the paper particularly show an interesting phenomena on the persistence of the anisotropic behavior of the initial data under the evolution. To achieve the goals, fundamental analysis theory such as Youngs inequality, time decaying of solutions for heat equations, the boundedness of the Helmholtz-Leray projection, and the boundedness of the Riesz tranfroms are developed in mixed-norm Lebesgue spaces. These fundamental analysis results are independently topics of great interests and they are potentially useful in other problems.
In this paper, the initial-boundary value problem of the 1D full compressible Navier-Stokes equations with positive constant viscosity but with zero heat conductivity is considered. Global well-posedness is established for any $H^1$ initial data. The initial density is required to be nonnegative, which is not necessary to be uniformly away from vacuum. This not only generalizes the well-known result of Kazhikhov--Shelukhin (Kazhikhov, A.~V.; Shelukhin, V.~V.: emph{Unique global solution with respect to time of initial boundary value problems for one-dimensional equations of a viscous gas}, J.,Appl.,Math.,Mech., bf41 rm(1977), 273--282.) from the heat conductive case to the non-heat conductive case, and the initial vacuum is allowed.
Existence and uniqueness of solutions to the Navier-Stokes equation in dimension two with forces in the space $L^q( (0,T); mathbf{W}^{-1,p}(Omega))$ for $p$ and $q$ in appropriate parameter ranges are proven. The case of spatially measured-valued inhomogeneities is included. For the associated Stokes equation the well-posedness results are verified in arbitrary dimensions with $1 < p, q < infty$ arbitrary.
This paper is based on a formulation of the Navier-Stokes equations developed by P. Constantin and the first author (texttt{arxiv:math.PR/0511067}, to appear), where the velocity field of a viscous incompressible fluid is written as the expected value of a stochastic process. In this paper, we take $N$ copies of the above process (each based on independent Wiener processes), and replace the expected value with $frac{1}{N}$ times the sum over these $N$ copies. (We remark that our formulation requires one to keep track of $N$ stochastic flows of diffeomorphisms, and not just the motion of $N$ particles.) We prove that in two dimensions, this system of interacting diffeomorphisms has (time) global solutions with initial data in the space $holderspace{1}{alpha}$ which consists of differentiable functions whose first derivative is $alpha$ Holder continuous (see Section ref{sGexist} for the precise definition). Further, we show that as $N to infty$ the system converges to the solution of Navier-Stokes equations on any finite interval $[0,T]$. However for fixed $N$, we prove that this system retains roughly $O(frac{1}{N})$ times its original energy as $t to infty$. Hence the limit $N to infty$ and $Tto infty$ do not commute. For general flows, we only provide a lower bound to this effect. In the special case of shear flows, we compute the behaviour as $t to infty$ explicitly.