Special Session 11: Stochastic Partial Differential Equations

The incompressible Navier--Stokes--Fourier system with thermal noise
Max Sauerbrey
MPI MiS, Leipzig
Germany
Co-Author(s):    Benjamin Gess, Zhengyan Wu
Abstract:
We establish a solution theory (global weak existence, local strong existence and weak-strong uniqueness) for the incompressible Navier--Stokes--Fourier system with thermal noise, posed on the three-dimensional torus. While in the incompressible deterministic setting the equation for the velocity $u$ can be solved independently of the temperature $\vt$, the inclusion of the effects of thermal fluctuations by means of the GENERIC framework leads to a nonlinear gradient noise term, which couples the dynamics of both variables. Therefore, the analysis of the system for $(u,\vt)$ poses new challenges, which are absent in deterministic Navier--Sokes--Fourier equations.