On the stability of solutions to non-Newtonian Navier--Stokes--Fourier-like systems in the supercritical case

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Main Authors: Abbatiello, Anna, Bulíček, Miroslav, Kaplický, Petr
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author Abbatiello, Anna
Bulíček, Miroslav
Kaplický, Petr
author_facet Abbatiello, Anna
Bulíček, Miroslav
Kaplický, Petr
contents We consider a three-dimensional domain occupied by a homogeneous, incompressible, non-Newtonian, heat-conducting fluid with prescribed nonuniform temperature on the boundary and no-slip boundary conditions for the velocity. No external body forces are assumed. The constitutive relation for the Cauchy stress tensor is assumed in a general form that includes, in particular, the power-law and Ladyzhenskaya models with the power-law exponent in the range where neither regularity, uniqueness, nor the validity of the energy equality is known to hold. Nevertheless, we introduce a novel concept of solution suitable for this setting, which enables us to establish the existence of global-in-time solutions for arbitrary physically relevant initial data. A remarkable feature of this formulation is that the steady-state solution is nonlinearly stable: every such solution converges, in a suitable sense, to the steady state as time tends to infinity. This provides the first result that combines existence with long-time stability in this physically relevant yet mathematically challenging regime.
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spellingShingle On the stability of solutions to non-Newtonian Navier--Stokes--Fourier-like systems in the supercritical case
Abbatiello, Anna
Bulíček, Miroslav
Kaplický, Petr
Analysis of PDEs
35Q30, 35K61, 76E30, 37L15
We consider a three-dimensional domain occupied by a homogeneous, incompressible, non-Newtonian, heat-conducting fluid with prescribed nonuniform temperature on the boundary and no-slip boundary conditions for the velocity. No external body forces are assumed. The constitutive relation for the Cauchy stress tensor is assumed in a general form that includes, in particular, the power-law and Ladyzhenskaya models with the power-law exponent in the range where neither regularity, uniqueness, nor the validity of the energy equality is known to hold. Nevertheless, we introduce a novel concept of solution suitable for this setting, which enables us to establish the existence of global-in-time solutions for arbitrary physically relevant initial data. A remarkable feature of this formulation is that the steady-state solution is nonlinearly stable: every such solution converges, in a suitable sense, to the steady state as time tends to infinity. This provides the first result that combines existence with long-time stability in this physically relevant yet mathematically challenging regime.
title On the stability of solutions to non-Newtonian Navier--Stokes--Fourier-like systems in the supercritical case
topic Analysis of PDEs
35Q30, 35K61, 76E30, 37L15
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.16868