Existence and regularity of steady-state solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations arising from irregular data

Abstract

We analyze the forced incompressible stationary Navier-Stokes flow in ${\mathbb{R}}_{+}^n$, $n>2$. Existence of a unique solution satisfying a global integrabilty property measured in a scale of tent spaces is established for small data in homogenous Sobolev space with $s=-\frac{1}{2}$ degree of smoothness. Moreover, the velocity field is shown to be locally Hölder continuous while the pressure belongs to $L_{loc}^p$ for any $p\in (1,\infty )$. Our approach is based on the analysis of the inhomogeneous Stokes system for which we derive a new solvability result involving Dirichlet data in Triebel-Lizorkin classes with negative amount of smoothness and is of independent interest.

arXiv commentTypos corrected and some proofs revised (Accepted in JFA)