ArticleOriginal scientific text

Title

On local existence of solutions of the free boundary problem for an incompressible viscous self-gravitating fluid motion

Authors 1, 2

Affiliations

  1. Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Warsaw University, Banacha 2 02-097 Warszawa, Poland
  2. Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Śniadeckich 8, 00-950 Warszawa, Poland

Abstract

The local-in-time existence of solutions of the free boundary problem for an incompressible viscous self-gravitating fluid motion is proved. We show the existence of solutions with lowest possible regularity for this problem such that uW2,1_r(w{mitΩ}~T) with r>3. The existence is proved by the method of successive approximations where the solvability of the Cauchy-Neumann problem for the Stokes system is applied. We have to underline that in the Lp-approach the Lagrangian coordinates must be used. We are looking for solutions with lowest possible regularity because this simplifies the proof and decreases the number of compatibility conditions.

Keywords

anisotropic Sobolev space, Navier-Stokes equations, local existence, sharp regularity, incompressible viscous barotropic self-gravitating fluid

Bibliography

  1. O. V. Besov, V. P. Il'in and S. M. Nikol'skiĭ, Integral Representations of Functions and Imbedding Theorems, Nauka, Moscow, 1975 (in Russian).
  2. O. A. Ladyzhenskaya, V. A. Solonnikov and N. N. Ural'tseva, Linear and Quasilinear Equations of Parabolic Type, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1975.
  3. P. B. Mucha and W. M. Zajączkowski, On the existence for the Cauchy-Neumann problem for the Stokes system in the Lp-framework, Studia Math., to appear.
  4. V. A. Solonnikov, On nonstationary motion of an isolated volume of a viscous incompressible fluid, Izv. Akad. Nauk SSSR 51 (1987), 1065-1087 (in Russian).\vadjust
  5. V. A. Solonnikov,Solvability on a finite time interval of the problem of evolution of a viscous incompressible fluid bounded by a free surface, Algebra Anal. 3 (1991), 222-257 (in Russian).
Pages:
319-333
Main language of publication
English
Received
1999-05-28
Accepted
2000-01-17
Published
2000
Exact and natural sciences