TY - JOUR
T1 - Growth of Sobolev norms and loss of regularity in transport equations
AU - Crippa, Gianluca
AU - Elgindi, Tarek
AU - Iyer, Gautam
AU - Mazzucato, Anna L.
N1 - Funding Information:
G.C. was partially supported by the ERC Starting grant no. 676675 FLIRT. The remaining authors were partially supported by the US National Science Foundation through grant nos DMS 2043024 and DMS 2124748 to T.E., DMS 1814147 and DMS 2108080 to G. Iyer, and DMS 1909103 to A.L.M. Acknowledgements
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - We consider transport of a passive scalar advected by an irregular divergence-free vector field. Given any non-constant initial data ρ ∈ H1loc(Rd), d ≥ 2, we construct a divergence-free advecting velocity field v (depending on ρ) for which the unique weak solution to the transport equation does not belong to H1loc(Rd) for any positive time. The velocity field v is smooth, except at one point, controlled uniformly in time, and belongs to almost every Sobolev space Ws,p that does not embed into the Lipschitz class. The velocity field v is constructed by pulling back and rescaling a sequence of sine/cosine shear flows on the torus that depends on the initial data. This loss of regularity result complements that in Ann. PDE, 5(1):Paper No. 9, 19, 2019. This article is part of the theme issue 'Mathematical problems in physical fluid dynamics (part 1)'.
AB - We consider transport of a passive scalar advected by an irregular divergence-free vector field. Given any non-constant initial data ρ ∈ H1loc(Rd), d ≥ 2, we construct a divergence-free advecting velocity field v (depending on ρ) for which the unique weak solution to the transport equation does not belong to H1loc(Rd) for any positive time. The velocity field v is smooth, except at one point, controlled uniformly in time, and belongs to almost every Sobolev space Ws,p that does not embed into the Lipschitz class. The velocity field v is constructed by pulling back and rescaling a sequence of sine/cosine shear flows on the torus that depends on the initial data. This loss of regularity result complements that in Ann. PDE, 5(1):Paper No. 9, 19, 2019. This article is part of the theme issue 'Mathematical problems in physical fluid dynamics (part 1)'.
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U2 - 10.1098/rsta.2021.0024
DO - 10.1098/rsta.2021.0024
M3 - Article
C2 - 35465718
AN - SCOPUS:85128844579
SN - 0962-8428
VL - 380
JO - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
JF - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
IS - 2225
M1 - 20210024
ER -