Well-posedness for the Prandtl system without analyticity or monotonicity

David Gérard-Varet, Nader Masmoudi

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Abstract

It has been thought for a while that the Prandtl system is only well-posed under the Oleinik monotonicity assumption or under an analyticity assumption. We show that the Prandtl system is actually locally well-posed for data that belong to the Gevrey class 7/4 in the horizontal variable x. Our result improves the classical local well-posedness result for data that are analytic in x (that is Gevrey class 1). The proof uses new estimates, based on non-quadratic energy functionals.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1273-1325
Number of pages53
JournalAnnales Scientifiques de l'Ecole Normale Superieure
Volume48
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 1 2015

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Mathematics

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