Acta mathematica scientia,Series B ›› 2011, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (5): 1653-1670.doi: 10.1016/S0252-9602(11)60351-2

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PARTIAL REGULARITY FOR THE NAVIER-STOKES-FOURIER SYSTEM

Luisa Consiglieri   

  1. Independent Researcher, Painel da Lameira Cx 8, 7300-405 Portalegre, Portugal
  • Received:2010-04-23 Online:2011-09-20 Published:2011-09-20

Abstract:

This paper addresses a nonstationary flow of heat-conductive incompressible Newtonian fluid with temperature-dependent viscosity coupled with linear heat transfer with advection and a viscous heat source term, under Navier/Dirichlet boundary condi-tions. The partial regularity for the velocity of the fluid is proved for each proper weak solution, that is, for such weak solutions which satisfy some local energy estimates in a similar way to the suitable weak solutions of the Navier-Stokes system. Finally, we study the nature of the set of points in space and time upon which proper weak solutions could be singular.

Key words: partial regularity, Navier-Stokes-Fourier system, Joule effect, suitable weak solutions

CLC Number: 

  • 76D03
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