Vanishing viscosity limit for incompressible flow inside a rotating circle

In this article we consider circularly symmetric incompressible viscous flow in a disk. The boundary condition is no-slip with respect to a prescribed time-dependent rotation of the boundary about the center of the disk. We prove that, if the prescribed angular velocity of the boundary has finite total variation, then the Navier–Stokes solutions converge strongly in L 2 to the corresponding stationary solution of the Euler equations when viscosity vanishes. Our approach is based on a semigroup treatment of the symmetry-reduced scalar equation.