Global well-posedness and exponential decay to the Cauchy problem of nonhomogeneous Navier-Stokes equations with density-dependent viscosity and vacuum in ${\mathbb{R}}^2$

Abstract

We study global well-posedness of strong solutions for the nonhomogeneous Navier-Stokes equations with density-dependent viscosity and initial density allowing vanish in ${\mathbb{R}}^2$. Applying a logarithmic interpolation inequality and delicate energy estimates, we show the global existence of a unique strong solution provided that $\Vert \nabla \mu ({\rho }_0){\Vert }_{L^q}$ is suitably small, which improves the previous result of Huang and Wang [SIAM J. Math. Anal. 46, 1771--1788 (2014)] to the whole space case. Moreover, we also derive exponential decay rates of the solution. In particular, there is no need to require additional initial compatibility condition despite the presence of vacuum.

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