Navier-Stokes Equations

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University of Chicago Press, Apr 7, 2020 - Mathematics - 200 pages
Both an original contribution and a lucid introduction to mathematical aspects of fluid mechanics, Navier-Stokes Equations provides a compact and self-contained course on these classical, nonlinear, partial differential equations, which are used to describe and analyze fluid dynamics and the flow of gases.
 

Contents

Chapter 1 Notation and Preliminary Material
1
Chapter 2 The Stokes equations Existence and Uniqueness of Weak Solutions
11
Chapter 3 Regularity of Solutions of the Stokes Equations
14
Chapter 4 The Stokes Operator
31
Chapter 5 The NavierStokes Equations
45
Chapter 6 Inequalities for the Nonlinear Term
48
Chapter 7 Stationary solutions to the NavierStokes Equations
57
Chapter 8 Weak Solutions of the NavierStokes Equations
63
Chapter 10 Further Results Concerning Weak and Strong Solutions
83
Chapter 11 Vanishing Viscosity Limits
99
Chapter 12 Analyticity and Backward Uniqueness
104
Chapter 13 Exponential Decay of Volume Elements
110
Chapter 14 Global Lyapunov Exponents Hausdorff and Fractal Dimension of the Universal Attractor
133
Chapter 15 Inertial Manifolds
154
Bibliography
185
Index
189

Chapter 9 Strong Solutions
74

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About the author (2020)

Peter Constantin is professor of mathematics at the University of Chicago. Ciprian Foias is Distinguished Professor in Mathematics at Indiana University.

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