Special Session 117: Patterns and Attractors in Nonlinear Dynamics

Asymptotic behavior for the incompressible Navier-Stokes system revisited
Noboru Chikami
Nagoya Institute of Technology
Japan
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Abstract:
We study the asymptotic behavior of small global solutions to the incompressible Navier-Stokes system. It is known that a suitable spatial decay allows the global solution to behave like self-similar solutions as time goes to infinity (Kato(1984), Planchon(1998)}). More precisely, if the spatial decay of the initial data is critical (i.e., $\varphi(x) = O(|x|^{-1})$) then the solution is asymptotic to a nonlinear self-similar solution, and if not, then the solution is asymptotic a linear self-similar solution. Under minimal assumptions on the initial data, we revisit this classical result on asymptotically self-similar solutions, and derive the second asymptotic expansion. The result can be extended to multiplier-type weighted Lorentz spaces.