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Title: Remarks on the inviscid limit problem for the Navier-Stokes equations
For data which are analytic only close to the boundary of the domain, we prove that in the inviscid limit the Navier-Stokes solution converges to the corresponding Euler solution. Compared to earlier results, in this paper we only require boundedness of an integrable analytic norm of the initial data, with respect to the normal variable, thus removing the uniform in viscosity boundedness assumption on the vorticity. As a consequence, we may allow the initial vorticity to be unbounded close to the set $y=0$, which we take as the boundary of the domain; in particular the vorticity can grow with the rate $$1/y^{1-\delta}$$ for $$y$$ close to $$0$$, for any $$\delta>0$$.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1907992
PAR ID:
10333934
Author(s) / Creator(s):
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Pure and applied functional analysis
Volume:
7
Issue:
1
ISSN:
2189-3756
Page Range / eLocation ID:
283-306
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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