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MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN THE APPLIED SCIENCES
Volume 30, Issue 5, Pages 595-624Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/mma.802
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Navier-Stokes equations; variational inequality; slip boundary condition
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We establish the wellposedness of the time-independent Navier-Stokes equations with threshold slip boundary conditions in bounded domains. The boundary condition is a generalization of Navier's slip condition and a restricted Coulomb-type friction condition: for wall slip to occur the magnitude of the tangential traction must exceed a prescribed threshold, independent of the normal stress, and where slip occurs the tangential traction is equal to a prescribed, possibly nonlinear, function of the slip velocity. In addition, a Dirichlet condition is imposed on a component of the boundary if the domain is rotationally symmetric. We formulate the boundary-value problem as a variational inequality and then use the Galerkin method and fixed point arguments to prove the existence of a weak solution under suitable regularity assumptions and restrictions on the size of the data. We also prove the uniqueness of the solution and its continuous dependence on the data. Copyright (C) 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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