Local profiles of self-similar solutions of the planar stationary Navier--Stokes equations

Abstract

In this paper, we revisit self-similar solutions of the two-dimensional stationary incompressible Navier-Stokes equations under scaling symmetries, also known as Jeffery-Hamel solutions. We investigate the local patterns of smooth Jeffery-Hamel solutions in a conical subdomain $\hat{I}\text{c◯}$ with vertex at the origin, without imposing any boundary conditions on $\hat{I}\text{c◯}$. For radial Jeffery-Hamel solutions, we obtain all the explicit local profiles in $\hat{I}\text{c◯}$ with arbitrary opening angles. In the non-radial case, we show that some Jeffery-Hamel solutions can be obtained via solving a Liénard equation, and we derive new explicit local profiles expressible in terms of Weierstrass elliptic functions.

25 pages, 2 figures