# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

February  2016, 9(1): 315-342. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2016.9.315

## Local well-posedness of free surface problems for the Navier-Stokes equations in a general domain

 1 Department of Mathematics and Research Institute of Science and Engineering, JST CREST, Waseda University, Ohkubo 3-4-1, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555

Received  September 2014 Revised  February 2015 Published  December 2015

In this paper, we prove the local well-posedness of the free boundary problems of Navier-Stokes equations in a general domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N$ ($N \geq 2$). The velocity field is obtained in the maximal regularity class $W^{2,1}_{q,p}(\Omega\times(0, T)) = L_p((0, T), W^2_q(\Omega)^N) \cap W^1_p((0, T), L_q(\Omega)^N)$ ($2 < p < \infty$ and $N < q < \infty$) for any initial data satisfying certain compatibility conditions. The assumption of the domain $\Omega$ is the unique existence of solutions to the weak Dirichlet-Neumann problem as well as some uniformity of covering of the closure of $\Omega$. A bounded domain, a perturbed half space, and a perturbed layer satisfy the conditions for the domain, and therefore drop problems and ocean problems are treated in the uniform manner. Our method is based on the maximal $L_p$-$L_q$ regularity theorem of a linearized problem in a general domain.
Citation: Yoshihiro Shibata. Local well-posedness of free surface problems for the Navier-Stokes equations in a general domain. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - S, 2016, 9 (1) : 315-342. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2016.9.315
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##### References:
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Shibata, On the maximal $L_p$-$L_q$ regularity of the Stokes equations and the one phase free boundary problem for the Navier-Stokes equations,, in Mathematical Analysis on the Navier-Stokes Equations and Related Topics, (2011), 185.   Google Scholar [22] Y. Shibata, On some free boundary problem of the Navier-Stokes equations in the maximal $L_p$-$L_q$ regularity class,, J. Differential Equations, 258 (2015), 4127.  doi: 10.1016/j.jde.2015.01.028.  Google Scholar [23] Y. Shibata, On the $\mathcalR$-bounded solution operators in the study of free boundary problem for the Navier-Stokes equations,, to appear in the proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematical Fluid Dynamics, ().   Google Scholar [24] Y. Shibata and S. Shimizu, Report on a local in time solvability of free surface problems for the Navier-Stokes equations with surface tension,, Applicable Analysis, 90 (2011), 201.  doi: 10.1080/00036811003735899.  Google Scholar [25] V. A. Solonnikov, Unsteady motion of a finite mass of fluid, bounded by a free surface,, Zap. Nauchn. Sem. (LOMI), 152 (1986), 137.  doi: 10.1007/BF01094193.  Google Scholar [26] V. A. Solonnikov, On the transient motion of an isolated volume of viscous incompressible fluid,, Izv. Akad. Nauk SSSR Ser. Mat., 51 (1987), 1065.   Google Scholar [27] V. A. Solonnikov, Solvability of the problem of evolution of a viscous incompressible fluid bounded by a free surface on a finite time interval,, Algebra i Analiz, 3 (1991), 222.   Google Scholar [28] V. A. Solonnikov, Lectures on evolution free boundary problems: Classical solutions,, Mathematical aspects of evolving interfaces (Funchal, (2000), 123.  doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-39189-0_4.  Google Scholar [29] D. Sylvester, Large time existence of small viscous surface waves without surface tension,, Commun. Partial Differential Equations, 15 (1990), 823.  doi: 10.1080/03605309908820709.  Google Scholar [30] N. 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