On the global regularity of 2-D density patch for inhomogeneous incompressible viscous flow
arXiv:1503.04898 · doi:10.1007/s00205-015-0945-z
Abstract
Toward P.-L. Lions' open question in \cite{Lions96} concerning the propagation of regularity for density patch, we establish the global existence of solutions to the 2-D inhomogeneous incompressible Navier-Stokes system with initial density given by $(1-η){\bf 1}_{\Om_0}+{\bf 1}_{\Om_0^c}$ for some small enough constant and some domain $\Om_0,$ and with initial vorticity belonging to and with appropriate tangential regularities. Furthermore, we prove that the regularity of the domain $\Om_0$ is preserved by time evolution.