Authors: David GérardVaret Matthieu Hillairet
Publish Date: 2009/01/21
Volume: 195, Issue: 2, Pages: 375-407
Abstract
We investigate the evolution of rigid bodies in a viscous incompressible fluid The flow is governed by the 2D Navier–Stokes equations set in a bounded domain with Dirichlet boundary conditions The boundaries of the solids and the domain have Hölder regularity C1α 0 α ≦ 1 First we show the existence and uniqueness of strong solutions up to the collision A key ingredient is a BMO bound on the velocity gradient which substitutes to the standard H2 estimate for smoother domains Then we study the asymptotic behaviour of one C1α body falling over a flat surface We show that a collision is possible in finite time if and only if α 1/2
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