On the existence of local strong solutions for the Navier–Stokes equations in completely general domains Original Research Article

There are only very few results on the existence of unique local in time strong solutions of the Navier–Stokes equations for completely general domains Ω⊆R3Ω⊆R3, although domains with edges and corners, bounded or unbounded, are very important in applications. The reason is that the LqLq-theory for the Stokes operator AA is available in general only in the Hilbert space setting, i.e., with q=2q=2. Our main result for a general domain ΩΩ is optimal in a certain sense: Consider an initial value View the MathML sourceu0∈Lσ2(Ω) and a zero external force. Then the condition View the MathML source∫0∞‖e−tAu0‖48dt<∞ is sufficient and necessary for the existence of a unique local strong solution u∈L8(0,T;L4(Ω))u∈L8(0,T;L4(Ω)) in some interval [0,T)[0,T), 0