Vanishing Viscous Limits for 3D Navier-Stokes Equations with A Navier-Slip Boundary Condition

Lizhen Wang, Zhouping Xin, Aibin Zang

Published 2012-01-10, updated 2012-01-17Version 2

In this paper, we investigate the vanishing viscosity limit for solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations with a Navier slip boundary condition on general compact and smooth domains in $\mathbf{R}^3$. We first obtain the higher order regularity estimates for the solutions to Prandtl's equation boundary layers. Furthermore, we prove that the strong solution to Navier-Stokes equations converges to the Eulerian one in $C([0,T];H^1(\Omega))$ and $L^\infty((0,T)\times\o)$, where $T$ is independent of the viscosity, provided that initial velocity is regular enough. Furthermore, rates of convergence are obtained also.