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    Weak-strong uniqueness and energy-variational solutions for a class of viscoelastoplastic fluid models
    (Boston, Mass. : De Gruyter, 2022) Eiter, Thomas; Hopf, Katharina; Lasarzik, Robert
    We study a model for a fluid showing viscoelastic and viscoplastic behavior, which describes the flow in terms of the fluid velocity and a symmetric deviatoric stress tensor. This stress tensor is transported via the Zaremba-Jaumann rate, and it is subject to two dissipation processes: one induced by a nonsmooth convex potential and one by stress diffusion. We show short-time existence of strong solutions as well as their uniqueness in a class of Leray-Hopf-type weak solutions satisfying the tensorial component in the sense of an evolutionary variational inequality. The global-in-time existence of such generalized solutions has been established in a previous work. We further study the limit when stress diffusion vanishes. In this case, the above notion of generalized solutions is no longer suitable, and we introduce the concept of energy-variational solutions, which is based on an inequality for the relative energy. We derive general properties of energy-variational solutions and show their existence by passing to the nondiffusive limit in the relative energy inequality satisfied by generalized solutions for nonzero stress diffusion.
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    On the Stokes-Type Resolvent Problem Associated with Time-Periodic Flow Around a Rotating Obstacle
    (Dordrecht [u.a.] : Springer Science + Business Media B.V, 2022) Eiter, Thomas
    Consider the resolvent problem associated with the linearized viscous flow around a rotating body. Within a setting of classical Sobolev spaces, this problem is not well posed on the whole imaginary axis. Therefore, a framework of homogeneous Sobolev spaces is introduced where existence of a unique solution can be guaranteed for every purely imaginary resolvent parameter. For this purpose, the problem is reduced to an auxiliary problem, which is studied by means of Fourier analytic tools in a group setting. In the end, uniform resolvent estimates can be derived, which lead to the existence of solutions to the associated time-periodic linear problem.
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    On periodic solutions for one-phase and two-phase problems of the Navier–Stokes equations
    (Basel : Springer, 2020) Eiter, Thomas; Kyed, Mads; Shibata, Yoshihiro
    This paper is devoted to proving the existence of time-periodic solutions of one-phase or two-phase problems for the Navier–Stokes equations with small periodic external forces when the reference domain is close to a ball. Since our problems are formulated in time-dependent unknown domains, the problems are reduced to quasilinear systems of parabolic equations with non-homogeneous boundary conditions or transmission conditions in fixed domains by using the so-called Hanzawa transform. We separate solutions into the stationary part and the oscillatory part. The linearized equations for the stationary part have eigen-value 0, which is avoided by changing the equations with the help of the necessary conditions for the existence of solutions to the original problems. To treat the oscillatory part, we establish the maximal Lp–Lq regularity theorem of the periodic solutions for the system of parabolic equations with non-homogeneous boundary conditions or transmission conditions, which is obtained by the systematic use of R-solvers developed in Shibata (Diff Int Eqns 27(3–4):313–368, 2014; On the R-bounded solution operators in the study of free boundary problem for the Navier–Stokes equations. In: Shibata Y, Suzuki Y (eds) Springer proceedings in mathematics & statistics, vol. 183, Mathematical Fluid Dynamics, Present and Future, Tokyo, Japan, November 2014, pp 203–285, 2016; Comm Pure Appl Anal 17(4): 1681–1721. https://doi.org/10.3934/cpaa.2018081, 2018; R boundedness, maximal regularity and free boundary problems for the Navier Stokes equations, Preprint 1905.12900v1 [math.AP] 30 May 2019) to the resolvent problem for the linearized equations and the transference theorem obtained in Eiter et al. (R-solvers and their application to periodic Lp estimates, Preprint in 2019) for the Lp boundedness of operator-valued Fourier multipliers. These approaches are the novelty of this paper. © 2020, The Author(s).
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    On the Regularity of Weak Solutions to Time-Periodic Navier–Stokes Equations in Exterior Domains
    (Basel : MDPI, 2022) Eiter, Thomas
    Consider the time-periodic viscous incompressible fluid flow past a body with non-zero velocity at infinity. This article gives sufficient conditions such that weak solutions to this problem are smooth. Since time-periodic solutions do not have finite kinetic energy in general, the well-known regularity results for weak solutions to the corresponding initial-value problem cannot be transferred directly. The established regularity criterion demands a certain integrability of the purely periodic part of the velocity field or its gradient, but it does not concern the time mean of these quantities.
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    Viscous Flow Around a Rigid Body Performing a Time-periodic Motion
    (Cham (ZG) : Springer International Publishing AG, 2021) Eiter, Thomas; Kyed, Mads
    The equations governing the flow of a viscous incompressible fluid around a rigid body that performs a prescribed time-periodic motion with constant axes of translation and rotation are investigated. Under the assumption that the period and the angular velocity of the prescribed rigid-body motion are compatible, and that the mean translational velocity is non-zero, existence of a time-periodic solution is established. The proof is based on an appropriate linearization, which is examined within a setting of absolutely convergent Fourier series. Since the corresponding resolvent problem is ill-posed in classical Sobolev spaces, a linear theory is developed in a framework of homogeneous Sobolev spaces.
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    Periodic Lp estimates by R-boundedness: Applications to the Navier--Stokes equations
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2022) Eiter, Thomas; Kyed, Mads; Shibata, Yoshihiro
    General evolution equations in Banach spaces are investigated. Based on an operator-valued version of de Leeuw's transference principle, time-periodic Lp estimates of maximal regularity type are established from R-bounds of the family of solution operators (R-solvers) to the corresponding resolvent problems. With this method, existence of time-periodic solutions to the Navier--Stokes equations is shown for two configurations: in a periodically moving bounded domain and in an exterior domain, subject to prescribed time-periodic forcing and boundary data.
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    On the spatially asymptotic structure of time-periodic solutions to the Navier--Stokes equations
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2020) Eiter, Thomas
    The asymptotic behavior of weak time-periodic solutions to the Navier--Stokes equations with a drift term in the three-dimensional whole space is investigated. The velocity field is decomposed into a time-independent and a remaining part, and separate asymptotic expansions are derived for both parts and their gradients. One observes that the behavior at spatial infinity is determined by the corresponding Oseen fundamental solutions.
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    Spatial decay of the vorticity field of time-periodic viscous flow past a body
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2020) Eiter, Thomas; Galdi, Giovanni P.
    We study the asymptotic spatial behavior of the vorticity field associated to a time-periodic Navier-Stokes flow past a body in the class of weak solutions satisfying a Serrin-like condition. We show that outside the wake region the vorticity field decays pointwise at an exponential rate, uniformly in time. Moreover, decomposing it into its time-average over a period and a so-called purely periodic part, we prove that inside the wake region, the time-average has the same algebraic decay as that known for the associated steady-state problem, whereas the purely periodic part decays even faster, uniformly in time. This implies, in particular, that ``sufficiently far'' from the body, the time-periodic vorticity field behaves like the vorticity field of the corresponding steady-state problem.
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    On the Oseen-type resolvent problem associated with time-periodic flow past a rotating body
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2021) Eiter, Thomas
    Consider the time-periodic flow of an incompressible viscous fluid past a body performing a rigid motion with non-zero translational and rotational velocity. We introduce a framework of homogeneous Sobolev spaces that renders the resolvent problem of the associated linear problem well posed on the whole imaginary axis. In contrast to the cases without translation or rotation, the resolvent estimates are merely uniform under additional restrictions, and the existence of time-periodic solutions depends on the ratio of the rotational velocity of the body motion to the angular velocity associated with the time period. Provided that this ratio is a rational number, time-periodic solutions to both the linear and, under suitable smallness conditions, the nonlinear problem can be established. If this ratio is irrational, a counterexample shows that in a special case there is no uniform resolvent estimate and solutions to the time-periodic linear problem do not exist.
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    On the Stokes-type resolvent problem associated with time-periodic flow around a rotating obstacle
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2021) Eiter, Thomas
    Consider the resolvent problem associated with the linearized viscous flow around a rotating body. Within a setting of classical Sobolev spaces, this problem is not well posed on the whole imaginary axis. Therefore, a framework of homogeneous Sobolev spaces is introduced where existence of a unique solution can be guaranteed for every purely imaginary resolvent parameter. For this purpose, the problem is reduced to an auxiliary problem, which is studied by means of Fourier analytic tools in a group setting. In the end, uniform resolvent estimates can be derived, which lead to the existence of solutions to the associated time-periodic linear problem.