Uniform Regularity for free-boundary navier-stokes equations with surface tension

2014/03/05 by Elgindi, Tarek, Lee, Donghyun
#Analysis of PDEs (math.AP) #FOS: Mathematics

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1403.0980

Abstract

We study the zero-viscosity limit of free boundary Navier-Stokes equations with surface tension in ℝ³ thus extending the work of Masmoudi and Rousset [1] to take surface tension into account. Due to the presence of boundary layers, we are unable to pass to the zero-viscosity limit in the usual Sobolev spaces. Indeed, as viscosity tends to zero, normal derivatives at the boundary should blow-up. To deal with this problem, we solve the free boundary problem in the so-called Sobolev co-normal spaces (after fixing the boundary via a coordinate transformation). We prove estimates which are uniform in the viscosity. And after inviscid limit process, we get the local existence of free-boundary Euler equation with surface tension. One of the main differences between this work and the work [1] is our use of time-derivative estimates and certain properties of the Dirichlet-Neumann operator. In a forthcoming work, we discuss how we can take the simultaneous limit of zero viscosity and surface tension [].

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