The formulation of the Navier-Stokes equations on Riemannian manifolds

Abstract

We consider the generalization of the Navier-Stokes equations from ${\mathbb{R}}^n$ to the Riemannian manifolds. There are inequivalent formulations of the Navier-Stokes equations on manifolds due to the different possibilities for the Laplacian operator acting on vector fields on a Riemannian manifold. We present several distinct arguments that indicate that the form of the equations proposed by Ebin and Marsden in 1970 should be adopted as the correct generalization of the Navier-Stokes to the Riemannian manifolds.

16 pages; published version. See version 1 for the details of the non-relativistic limit, which were omitted in the published version

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