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December  2016, 9(6): 2011-2029. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2016082

Global existence of weak solutions to the three-dimensional Prandtl equations with a special structure

 1 Department of Mathematics, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China 2 School of Mathematical Sciences, MOE-LSC and SHL-MAC, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China 3 Department of Mathematics, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Received  April 2015 Revised  September 2016 Published  November 2016

The global existence of weak solutions to the three space dimensional Prandtl equations is studied under some constraint on its structure. This is a continuation of our recent study on the local existence of classical solutions with the same structure condition. It reveals the sufficiency of the monotonicity condition on one component of the tangential velocity field and the favorable condition on pressure in the same direction that leads to global existence of weak solutions. This generalizes the result obtained by Xin-Zhang [14] on the two-dimensional Prandtl equations to the three-dimensional setting.
Citation: Cheng-Jie Liu, Ya-Guang Wang, Tong Yang. Global existence of weak solutions to the three-dimensional Prandtl equations with a special structure. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - S, 2016, 9 (6) : 2011-2029. doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2016082
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