WIAS Preprint No. 2078, (2015)
Global-in-time existence of weak solutions to Kolmogorov's two-equation model of turbulence
Authors
- Mielke, Alexander
ORCID: 0000-0002-4583-3888 - Naumann, Joachim
2010 Mathematics Subject Classification
- 35K45 35Q30 76D03 76F99
Keywords
- Navier-Stokes equation, Kolmogorov's turbulence model, turbulent kinetic energy, global existence for weak solutions, defect measure, scaling laws, maximum principle
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Abstract
We consider Kolmogorov's model for the turbulent motion of an incompressible fluid in ℝ3. This model consists in a Navier-Stokes type system for the mean flow u and two further partial differential equations: an equation for the frequency ω and for the kinetic energy k each. We investigate this system of partial differential equations in a cylinder Ω x ]0,T[ (Ω ⊂ ℝ3 cube, 0 < T < +∞) under spatial periodic boundary conditions on ∂Ω x ]0,T[ and initial conditions in Ω x {0}. We present an existence result for a weak solution {u, ω, k} to the problem under consideration, with ω, k obeying the inequalities and .
Appeared in
- C. R. Math. Acad. Sci. Paris, 353 (2015) pp. 321--326.
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