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Free boundary regularity of vacuum states for incompressible viscous flows in unbounded domains

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In the well-known book of Lions [{\em Mathematical topics in fluid mechanics. Incompressible models}, 1996], global existence results of finite energy weak solutions of the inhomogeneous incompressible Navier-Stokes equations (INS) were proved without assuming positive lower bounds on the initial density, hence allowing for vacuum. Uniqueness, regularity and persistence of boundary regularity of density patches were listed as open problems. A breakthrough on Lions' problems was recently made by Danchin and Mucha [The incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in vacuum, {\em Comm. Pure Appl. Math.}, 72 (2019), 1351--1385] in the case where the fluid domain is either bounded or the torus. However, the case of unbounded domains was left open because of the lack of Poincar\'{e}-type inequalities. In this paper, we obtain regularity and uniqueness of Lions' weak solutions for (INS) with \emph{only bounded and nonnegative initial density} and additional regularity only assumed for the initial velocity, in the whole-space case $\mathbb R^d$, $d=2$ or $3$. In particular, our result allows us to study the evolution of a vacuum bubble embedded in an incompressible fluid, as well as a patch of a homogeneous fluid embedded in the vacuum, which provides an answer to Lions' question in the whole-space case.
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hal-04337071 , version 1 (12-12-2023)

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Christophe Prange, Jin Tan. Free boundary regularity of vacuum states for incompressible viscous flows in unbounded domains. 2023. ⟨hal-04337071⟩
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