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Partial differential equations
On the local existence for the Euler equations with free boundary for compressible and incompressible fluids
Sur l’existence locale de solutions des équations d’Euler pour les fluides compressibles et incompressibles, avec frontière libre
Marcelo M. Disconzi
a, Igor Kukavica
baDepartmentofMathematics,VanderbiltUniversity,Nashville,TN37240,USA
bDept.ofMathematics,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia,LosAngeles,CA90089-2532,USA
a rt i c l e i n f o a b s t ra c t
Articlehistory:
Received31July2017 Accepted5February2018 Availableonline21February2018 PresentedbytheEditorialBoard
We consider the free boundary compressible and incompressible Euler equations with surfacetension.Inbothcases,weprovidea prioriestimatesforthelocalexistencewiththe initialvelocityinH3,withthe H3conditiononthedensityinthecompressiblecase.An additionalconditionisrequiredonthefreeboundary.Comparedtotheexistingliterature, bothresults lower the regularityof initial data for the Lagrangian Euler equationwith surfacetension.
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Nous considéronsles équations d’Euler compressibles et incompressibles avec frontière libreettension desurface.Danslesdeux cas, nousfournissonsdes estimationsapriori pourl’existencedesolutionslocalesavecvitesseinitialedans H3 etlacondition H3sur ladensité dansle cascompressible.Unecondition supplémentaireest nécessaire surla frontièrelibre.Parcomparaisonaveclalittérature,lesdeuxrésultatsabaissentlarégularité desdonnéesinitialespourleséquationsd’Eulerencoordonnéeslagrangiennes,avectension desurface.
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1. Introduction
In this note, we address the waterwave problem, which hasbeen studied extensively. Our settingis rather general:
we consider the Euler equations witha free surface and allow initial data to have nonzero curl, i.e. the initial data is rotational.Thedomainisassumedtobeoffinitedepth,buttheresultscanbeeasilyadaptedtotheinfinitedepthaswell.
E-mailaddresses:marcelo.disconzi@vanderbilt.edu(M.M. Disconzi),kukavica@usc.edu(I. Kukavica).
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crma.2018.02.002
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We consider both thecompressible andincompressiblecases; forthe compressibleEuler equations,we assume that the densityisboundedfrombelow,i.e.weconsiderthecaseofaliquid.
Ouraim inthis note isto announce tworecent resultson the localexistence withnon-zero surface tension.In both maintheorems(thecompressibleandincompressiblecases,respectively),weassumethattheinitialdataisofH3regularity intheinterior.Thislowerstheregularity ofexistingresultsforthecompressibleequations.Intheincompressiblesetting, ourresultlowerstheknownregularityinLagrangian coordinates,albeititdoesnotimproveoverwhathasbeenobtained inEuleriancoordinates.
The historyof the Eulerequations withfree interface is rich—we refer the readerto [2,4,5] fora more complete ac- count. We only mentiona few important worksdealing withnon-zero surface tension.The first general well-posedness resultfortheincompressiblefree-boundaryEulerequationswithsurface tensionis[2],followedby[9,10] and[3].Earlier, well-posednesshadbeenestablishedundertheassumptionthattheinitial vorticityvanishesontheboundary[8].Forthe compressibleequationswithsurfacetension,thefirstresultwas[1].
Inthefirstpartofthenote,weaddressthecompressibleEulerequations,whileinthesecondpartwetreattheincom- pressibleversion.
2. Compressiblecase
IntheLagrangiansetting,thefree-surfacecompressibleEulerequationsread
R
∂
tvα+
aμα∂
μq=
0 in[
0,
T) × ,
(1a)∂
tR+
Raμα∂
μvα=
0 in[
0,
T) × ,
(1b)∂
taαβ+
aαγ∂
μvγaμβ=
0 in[
0,
T) × ,
(1c)q
=
q(
R)
in[
0,
T) × ,
(1d)aμαNμq
+ σ |
aTN|
gη
α=
0 on[
0,
T) ×
1,
(1e)vμNμ
=
0 on[
0,
T) ×
0,
(1f)η (
0,·) =
id,
R(
0,·) =
0,
v(
0, ·) =
v0.
(1g) Above, v, R,andq denote theLagrangian velocity, density,andthe pressure,respectively; N is theunit outer normalto∂,aistheinverseof∇
η
,σ
=constant>0 isthecoefficientofsurfacetension,andg istheLaplacianofthemetricgi j inducedon∂(t)bytheembeddingη
,i.e.gi j=∂iη
·∂jη
=∂iη
μ∂jη
μ.Weconsiderthedomain0≡=T2×(0,1).Wenotethatusingthestraighteningmapin[7,Remark 4.2],itiseasyto modifytheapproachto considerageneralcurveddomain=R2×(0,h(x1,x2)).Applyingthechangeofvariablein[7], weget
R
∂
tvα+
aμαbβμ∂
βq=
0insteadof(1a);herebisthecofactorinversematrixofthestraighteningmap.Theother equationsinthesystem(1a)–(1g) aremodifiedsimilarly.Themethodsoutlinedheretheneasilycarryoverforthenewsystemaswell,providedisatleast H5regular.
Denotingthecoordinateson by(x1,x2,x3),wehave1=T2× {x3=1}asthefreeboundaryand0=T2× {x3=0} asthestationaryone.Onthepressurefunction,weassume
q(
R)
R≥
Aq=
constant>
0,
(2)whichissatisfiedbyalargeclassofequationsofstate.
We denoteby thecanonical projection,on
η
(1),fromthetangent bundle ofη
() toits normalbundle, whichis givenby αβ=δαβ−gkl∂kη
α∂lη
β.Werecall thatinitial datafor(2) isrequiredto satisfycompatibilityconditions(cf. [5]).Thefollowingisthemainresultinthecompressiblecase.
Theorem2.1.Letv0beasmoothvectorfieldonand 0asmoothpositivefunctiononboundedawayfromzerofrombelow.
Assumethatv0and 0satisfythecompatibilityconditions.Letq:(0,∞)→(0,∞)beasmoothfunctionsatisfying(2)inaneigh- borhoodof 0.Then,thereexista T∗>0andaconstant C∗,dependingonlyon
σ
>0, v0 3, v0 3,1,0 3,
0 3,1,and (divv0)1 −1,1 suchthatanysmoothsolution(v,R)to(1),withinitialcondition(v0,
0)anddefinedonthetimeinterval [0,T∗),satisfies
N
(
t) =
v 23+ ∂
tv 22+ ∂
t2v 21+ ∂
t3v 20+
R 23+ ∂
tR 22+ ∂
t2R 21+ ∂
t3R 20+ ∂∂
t2v 20,1+ ∂
2∂
tv 20,1
≤
C∗,
(3)where∂standsforthetangentialderivative.
Next,wedescribe thestrategy oftheproof anddiscussthetreatmentofdifficultterms.Themainpartisbasedonthe energyestimateforthreetimederivatives,
1 2
d dt
R
(
0)∂
t3vβ∂
t3vβ+
1 2d dt
R
(
0)
R q
¯
(
R)(∂
t3R)
2+
1
∂
t3(
Jaαβq)∂
t3vβNα= −
R
(
0)
R
∂
t3(
Raαβ∂
αvβ) −
Raαβ∂
t3∂
αvβ∂
t3 qR
+
R
(
0)
∂
t3aαβq R
−
aαβ∂
t3 qR
∂
t3∂
αvβ−
3
R
(
0)
q¯
(
R)
R
∂
t4R∂
t2R∂
tR−
R
(
0)
q¯
(
R)
R
∂
t4R(∂
tR)
3+
1 2R
(
0)∂
t q¯
(
R)
R(∂
t3R)
2(4)
where
¯
q
(
R) =
q(
R)
Rand J=det(∇
η
). The first two terms on the left provide a coercive term ∂t3v 20+ ∂t3R 20. In the third term I1 =1∂t3(J aαβq)∂t3vβNα ontheleftside of(4),weuse(1e) forthepressure,leadingto I1=t
0
1∂t3(√
gg
η
α)∂t3vα,where wesetσ
=1 forsimplicity.ThismayberewrittenasI1
= −
t0
1
√
g gi jαμ
∂
j∂
t2vμ∂
i∂
t3vα−
t0
1
∂
i( √
g gi j
αμ
)∂
j∂
t2vμ∂
t3vα= −
1 21
√
g gi jαμ
∂
j∂
t2vμ∂
i∂
t2vα+
1 2 t0
1
∂
t√
g gi jαμ
∂
j∂
t2vμ∂
i∂
t2vα−
t0
1
∂
i( √
g gi j
αμ
)∂
j∂
t2vμ∂
t3vα+
1 21
√
g gi jαμ
∂
j∂
t2vμ∂
i∂
t2vα|
0=
I11+
I12+
I13+
I14.
(5)
Theintegral I11leadstoacoerciveterm 14 ∂∂t2v 20,
1.Thehighest-ordertermresultswhen∂ifallson√
g gi j,whichgives theintegral
I131
= −
t0
1
∂
i( √
g gi j
)ˆ
nαnˆ
μ∂
j∂
t2vμ∂
t3vα,
forwhichweneedtoexploreitsspecialstructure.Notethatweusedtheidentityαμ= ˆnαnˆμ,nˆ beingtheunitouternormal tothemovingboundary.ItturnsoutthatthisintegralcancelsapartoftheintegralresultingfromI14(cf. [5] forcomplete details).
Itremains todiscussthetreatmentoftherightsideof(4).Denotethetermsontherightsideof(4) byJ1–J5.Allthe integralsresultingfromJ1,J3,J4,andJ5 canbeestimatedusingintegrationby partsintime andspaceandemploying theHölderandSobolevinequalities.Ontheotherhand,whenexpandingJ2,thereisatrickytermT=t
0
∂t3Aμα∂t3∂μvαq where A= J a,whichcannotbetreatedinthisway,andspecialcancellationsareneededtocontrolit.Wenamelyclaim
|
T|
N+
P0+
P t0
P
,
(6)wherePdenotesagenericpolynomialinN,P0agenericpolynomialofthenormsoftheinitialdata.
Herewesketchthemainideasusedinproving(6).UsingtheformulaforthecofactormatrixA= J a,werewrite
T
=
t0
q
αλτ
∂
2∂
t2vλ∂
3η
τ∂
1∂
t3vα+
t0
q
αλτ
∂
2η
λ∂
3∂
t2vτ∂
1∂
t3vα−
t0
q
αλτ
∂
1∂
t2vλ∂
3η
τ∂
2∂
t3vα−
t0
q
αλτ
∂
1η
λ∂
3∂
t2vτ∂
2∂
t3vα+
t0
q
αλτ
∂
1∂
t2vλ∂
2η
τ∂
3∂
t3vα+
t0
q
αλτ
∂
1η
λ∂
2∂
t2vτ∂
3∂
t3vα+
L=
T1+ · · · +
T6+
L(7)
where A1α =
αλτ∂2
η
λ∂3η
τ, A2α= −αλτ∂1
η
λ∂3η
τ, A3α=αλτ∂1
η
λ∂2η
τ, and L stands for the lower-order terms. Also,ε
αβγ isthetotallyanti-symmetricsymbolwithε
123=1.Toexplorethecancellation,wegroupthetermsin(7) asT1+T3, T2+T5,andT4+T6.Allthreepairsaretreatedbyintegratingbypartsintime.WhenwritingoutT1+T3,thehighest-order termsare t0
q
αλτ
∂
2∂
t2vλ∂
3η
τ∂
1∂
t3vα+
t0
q
αλτ
∂
1∂
t3vλ∂
3η
τ∂
2∂
t2vαandtheleadingtermscancelbyrelabelingtheindices
α
↔λ inthesecond integral.Thesamecancellationoccursalsoin theothergroupingsT2+T5andT4+T6.However,thereweintegratethederivatives∂2and∂3;thelastsumproducesthe boundaryterm1q∂t2v2∂2∂t2v3.Toboundthisterm,weusetheprojection identityαβ=δαβ−gkl∂k
η
α∂lη
β,whichallows ustorelate∂∂t2vand∂∂t2v3andwrite1
q
∂
t2v2∂
2∂
t2v3=
1
q
∂
t2v2(
3λ∂
2∂
t2vλ+
gkl∂
kη
3∂
lη
λ∂
2∂
t2vλ).
Thelastexpressioncanthenbe controlledusingthecoercivetermsandthetrace inequality.Collectingalltheinequalities leadsto
∂
t3v 20+ ∂
t3R 20+ ∂∂
t2v 20,1≤
N+
P0+
P t0
P
.
Theenergyestimatesfortwotimederivativesandonetimederivativearesimilar.Forinstance,usinganalogousmethods, weobtain
∂∂
t2v 20+ ∂∂
t2R 20+ ∂
2∂
tv 20,1
≤
N+
P0+
P t0
P (8)
and
∂
2∂
tv 20+ ∂
2∂
tR 20+ ∂
3v 20,1
≤
N+
P0+
P t0
P
.
(9)We emphasize however, that unlike [1], we cannot continue and perform the same estimate for ∂3v 20+ ∂3R 20. The reasonisthattheanalogoftheterm(7) cannotbetreatedthesamewayduetolackoftimederivatives.
Instead,weobtainthefullcontrolofN byusinganewCauchyinvariancepropertyforthecompressibleEulerequations, statednext.NotethattheCauchyinvarianceprovidesa3Danalogofthe2Dvorticitypreservation.
Theorem2.2.(CompressibleCauchyInvarianceFormula)Let(v,R)beasmoothsolutionto(1)definedon[0,T).Then
ε
αβγ∂
βvμ∂
γη
μ= ω
α0+
t0
ε
αβγaλμ∂
λq∂
γη
μ∂
βRR2
,
(10)for0≤t<T ,where
ω
0isthevorticityattimezero.Here,weprovideasketchoftheproof(cf. [5] forcompletedetails).First,wehave
∂
t( ε
αβγ∂
βvμ∂
γη
μ) = ε
αβγ∂
βvμ∂
γvμ+ ε
αβγ∂
β∂
tvμ∂
γη
μ= −
1R
ε
αβγ∂
β(
aλμ∂
λq)∂
γη
μ+
1R2
ε
αβγaλμ∂
λq∂
βR∂
γη
μ,
by theanti-symmetryof
ε
αβγ and(1a).Sincea=(∇η
)−1,weget∂β(aλμ∂γη
μ)=∂βaλμ∂γη
μ+aλμ∂γ∂βη
μ=0,andafter somesimplealgebra,∂t(ε
αβγ∂βvμ∂γη
μ)= R12ε
αβγaλμ∂λq∂βR∂γη
μ.Theformula(10) thenfollowsbyintegratingintime.TherestoftheproofofTheorem2.1maynowbeperformedsimilarlyto [6].Namely,controlofthecurlisprovidedby theCauchyinvarianceformula(10).Thenthedivergenceofvanditstimederivativesareobtainedfrom(1b) inaninductive fashion, usingthe factthatthethird timederivativesareindependentlyestimatedfrom(4).Finally,theboundaryintegral isestimatedusing(5),(8),and(9).Theexception isthemissingestimate forv3,whichisobtainedfromtheequation(1e) (cf. [5] fordetails).
Collectingalltheestimatesleadsto
N
(
t) ≤
C0P(
N(
0)) +
P(
N(
t))
t0
P
(
N(
s))
ds,
where P isapolynomial,andtherestfollowsbyastandardGronwallargument.
3. Incompressiblecase
In this section, we describe the a priori estimates forthe local existence forthe incompressible Eulerequations. We addresstheequationsintheLagrangiancoordinates,wheretheytaketheform
∂
tvα+
aμα∂
μq=
0 in[
0,
T) × ,
(11a)aαβ
∂
αvβ=
0 in[
0,
T) × ,
(11b)∂
taαβ+
aαγ∂
μvγaμβ=
0 in[
0,
T) × ,
(11c)aμαNμq
+ σ |
aTN|
gη
α=
0 on[
0,
T) ×
1,
(11d)vμNμ
=
0 on[
0,
T) ×
0,
(11e)η (
0, · ) =
id,
v(
0, · ) =
v0.
(11f)All thequantitiesare asinthecompressiblecase, exceptforq,whichisnow aLagrange multiplier enforcingtheincom- pressibilityconstraint.Thenwehavethefollowinga prioriestimatessupportingthelocalexistencewiththevelocity H3 in theinterior,withaconditiononthetraceatthefreeboundary.
Theorem3.1.Assumethat
σ
>0in(11).Letv0beasmoothdivergence-freevectorfieldon.ThenthereexistT∗>0andaconstant C0,dependingonlyon v0 3, v0 4,1,andσ
>0,suchthatanysmoothsolution(v,q)to(11)withinitialconditionv0anddefined onthetimeinterval[0,T∗),satisfiesv 3
+ ∂
tv 2.5+ ∂
t2v 1.5+ ∂
t3v 0+
q 3+ ∂
tq 2+ ∂
t2q 1≤
C0.
(12)Observethat theSobolevexponentsin(3) and(12) differ.Theproof ofTheorem3.1isdifferentthan theoneofTheo- rem2.1;however,themainstepsalsorelyontheenergyinequalityforthethirdtimederivativeofthevelocity
1
2
∂
t3v 20=
12
∂
t3v(
0)
20−
t0
∂
t3∂
μ(
aμαq)∂
t3vα.
Themaindifferencewiththecompressiblecaseareinthetreatmentofthepressureandinboundingtheboundaryintegral
−
t0
1
√
g(
gi jgkl−
gljgik)∂
jη
α∂
kη
λ∂
t2∂
lvλ∂
t3∂
ivα.
(13)Forthepressure,themaininequalitiesaresummarizedinthefollowingstatement.
Lemma3.2.Wehavetheestimates
q 3
≤
C∇
v 2 v 2+
C∂
tv 1.5,1+
C,
∂
tq 2≤
C∇
v 1.5+δ(
q 2.5+ ∂
tv 1.5) +
C( ∇
v 1.5∇
v L∞+ ∇∂
tv 1.5)
v 1.5+δ+
C∂
t2v 1,1+
C v 2.5+
C∂
tv 2.5,
∂
t2q 1≤
C(
v 1.5∇
v L∞+ ∂
tv 1.5)(
q 2+ ∂
tv 1) +
C∇
v L∞( ∂
tq 1+ ∂
t2v 0) +
C(
v 1.5∇
v 2L∞+ ∂
tv 1.5∇
v L∞+ ∂
t2v 1.5)
v 1+
C∂
t3v 0+
C( ∂
tv 2.5+
v 3∂
tq 1) +
C(
1+
v 23+ ∂
tv 2)( ∂
tv 2+
v 23),
fort∈(0,T)andδ >0asmallnumber.
Thelemmaisobtainedbysolvingtheellipticboundaryvalueproblemsforq,∂tq,and∂t2q.Forq andqt,weconsiderthe Neumannproblem,whileforthesecondderivative,weusetheDirichletproblem,togetherwithanestimate
∂
t2q 0,1≤ ∂
t2q 1+
C( ∂
tv 2.5+
v 3∂
tq 1) +
C(
1+
v 23+ ∂
tv 2)( ∂
tv 2+
v 23)
(cf. [4] for details). The treatment for the boundary integral (13) is involved and it relies on its determinant structure (cf. [2]). The restof the proof is obtained by the H1 estimate for ∂t2v. However, in order to control v 3, we use the additionalboundaryregularityprovidedbythesurfacetension,togetherwiththediv-curlestimatesprovidedbytheCauchy invariance[7].
Acknowledgements
We thank the referee for corrections and useful suggestions. MMD was partially supported by the NSF grant DMS-1305705,whileIKwaspartiallysupportedbytheNSFgrantDMS-1615239.
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