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On the global wellposedness for free boundary problem for the Navier-Stokes systems with surface tension
The aim of this paper is to show the global wellposedness of the
Navier-Stokes equations, including surface tension and gravity, with a free
surface in an unbounded domain such as bottomless ocean. In addition, it is
proved that the solution decays polynomially as time tends to infinity. To
show these results, we first use the Hanzawa transformation in order to reduce
the problem in a time-dependent domain , , to
a problem in the lower half-space . We then establish some
time-weighted estimate of solutions, in an -in-time and -in-space
setting, for the linearized problem around the trivial steady state with the
help of time decay estimates of semigroup. Next, the
time-weighted estimate, combined with the contraction mapping principle, shows
that the transformed problem in admits a global-in-time
solution in the setting and that the solution decays
polynomially as time tends to infinity under the assumption that ,
satisfy the conditions: , , and . Finally,
we apply the inverse transformation of Hanzawa's one to the solution in
to prove our main results mentioned above for the original
problem in . Here we want to emphasize that it is not allowed to take
in the above assumption about , , which means that the different
exponents , of setting play an essential role in our
approach
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