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Keywords:
stationary Stokes and Navier-Stokes system; very weak solutions; existence and uniqueness in higher dimensions; regularity classes in higher dimensions
Summary:
For a bounded domain $\Omega \subset \Bbb R ^n$, $n\geq 3,$ we use the notion of very weak solutions to obtain a new and large uniqueness class for solutions of the inhomogeneous Navier-Stokes system $-\Delta u + u \cdot \nabla u + \nabla p=f$, $\div u = k$, $u_{|_{\partial \Omega }}=g$ with $u \in L^q$, $q \geq n$, and very general data classes for $f$, $k$, $g$ such that $u$ may have no differentiability property. For smooth data we get a large class of unique and regular solutions extending well known classical solution classes, and generalizing regularity results. Moreover, our results are closely related to those of a series of papers by Frehse & Růžička, see e.g. Existence of regular solutions to the stationary Navier-Stokes equations, Math. Ann. 302 (1995), 669--717, where the existence of a weak solution which is locally regular is proved.
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