17 research outputs found
The Inviscid Limit and Boundary Layers for Navier-Stokes Flows
The validity of the vanishing viscosity limit, that is, whether solutions of
the Navier-Stokes equations modeling viscous incompressible flows converge to
solutions of the Euler equations modeling inviscid incompressible flows as
viscosity approaches zero, is one of the most fundamental issues in
mathematical fluid mechanics. The problem is classified into two categories:
the case when the physical boundary is absent, and the case when the physical
boundary is present and the effect of the boundary layer becomes significant.
The aim of this article is to review recent progress on the mathematical
analysis of this problem in each category.Comment: To appear in "Handbook of Mathematical Analysis in Mechanics of
Viscous Fluids", Y. Giga and A. Novotn\'y Ed., Springer. The final
publication is available at http://www.springerlink.co
Steklov problems in perforated domains with a coefficient of indefinite sign
We consider homogenization of Steklov spectral problem for a divergence form elliptic operator in periodically perforated domain under the assumption that the spectral weight function changes sign. We show that the limit behaviour of the spectrum depends essentially on wether the average of the weight function over the boundary of holes is positive, or negative or equal to zero. In all these cases we construct the asymptotics of the eigenpairs