Solutions of the Cauchy problem for the Navier-Stokes equation, in a certain generalized sense, are not unique.

We show that in bounded domains with no-slip boundary conditions, the Navier-Stokes pressure can be determined in a such way that it is strictly dominated by viscosity. As a consequence, in a general domain we can treat the Navier-Stokes equations as a perturbed vector diffusion equation, instead of as a perturbed Stokes system. To illustrate the advantages of this view, we provide a simple pro...

Both experimental and numerical studies of fluid motion indicate that initially localized regions of vorticity tend to evolve into isolated vortices and that these vortices then serve as organizing centers for the flow. In this paper we prove that in two dimensions localized regions of vorticity do evolve toward a vortex. More precisely we prove that any solution of the two-dimensional Navier-S...

We consider the decay at high wavenumbers of the energy spectrum for weak solutions to the three-dimensional forced Navier-Stokes equation in the whole space. We observe that known regularity criteria imply that solutions are regular if the energy density decays at a sufficiently fast rate. This result applies also to a class of solutions with infinite global energy by localizing the Navier-Sto...

The gauge-Uzawa method which has been constructed in [11] is a projection type method to solve the evolution Navier-Stokes equations. The method overcomes many shortcomings of projection methods and displays superior numerical performance [11, 12, 15, 16]. However, we have obtained only suboptimal accuracy via the energy estimate in [11]. In this paper, we study semi-discrete gauge-Uzawa method...