Inertial manifolds for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations

Abstract

In this article, we devote to the existence of an $N$-dimensional inertial manifold for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in ${\mathbb{T}}^d$ ($d=2,3$). Our results can be summarized as two aspects: Firstly, we construct an $N$-dimensional inertial manifold for the Navier-Stokes equations in ${\mathbb{T}}^2$; Secondly, we extend slightly the spatial averaging method to the abstract case: ${\partial }_{t}u+A^{1+\alpha }u+A^{\alpha }F(u)=f$ (here $0<\alpha <1$, $A>0$ is a self-adjoint operator with compact inverse and $F$ is Lipschitz from a Hilbert space $\mathbb{H}$ to $\mathbb{H}$), and then verify the existence of an $N$-dimensional inertial manifold for the hyperviscous Navier-Stokes equation with the hyperviscous index $5/4$ in ${\mathbb{T}}^3$.

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