Special Session 38: 

The viscosity operator for the Navier-Stokes equations on Riemannian manifolds

Magdalena Czubak
University of Colorado Boulder
USA
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Abstract:
There are inequivalent formulations of the Navier-Stokes equations on the Riemannian manifolds due to the different possibilities for the Laplacian operator acting on vector fields. In this talk, we discuss different suggestions for how to choose the most plausible operator.