Full Regularity and Well-Posedness of the Nonlinear Unsteady Prandtl Equations with Robin or Dirichlet Boundary Condition

TL;DR

This paper establishes the full regularity and well-posedness of classical solutions to the nonlinear unsteady Prandtl equations with Robin or Dirichlet boundary conditions, under certain assumptions, for large times.

Contribution

It proves the existence, uniqueness, and stability of solutions with full regularity for the nonlinear Prandtl equations with Robin or Dirichlet boundary conditions, extending previous results.

Findings

Large time existence of classical solutions under small initial vorticity and Euler flow.

Preservation of full regularity in solution spaces.

Uniqueness and stability in weighted Sobolev spaces.

Abstract

In this paper, we study the full regularity and well-posedness of classical solutions to the nonlinear unsteady Prandtl equations with Robin or Dirichlet boundary condition in half space. Under Oleinik's monotonicity assumption, we prove the large time existence of classical solutions to the nonlinear Prandtl equations with Robin or Dirichlet boundary condition, when both initial vorticity and the general Euler flow are sufficiently small. For the general Euler flow, the vertical velocity of the Prandtl flow is unbounded. We prove that the Prandtl solutions preserve the full regularities in our solution spaces. The uniqueness and stability are also proved in the weighted Sobolev spaces.