Weak-strong uniqueness for the Navier-Stokes equation for two fluids with ninety degree contact angle and same viscosities

TL;DR

This paper proves weak-strong uniqueness for a 2D two-fluid Navier-Stokes system with a contact angle condition, using a relative entropy approach and focusing on equal viscosities.

Contribution

It extends weak-strong uniqueness results to include contact angle conditions in a two-fluid Navier-Stokes model in 2D.

Findings

Establishes weak-strong uniqueness in 2D for the two-fluid Navier-Stokes system.

Incorporates contact angle condition into the relative entropy framework.

Focuses on the case of equal viscosities for the two fluids.

Abstract

We consider the flow of two viscous and incompressible fluids within a bounded domain modeled by means of a two-phase Navier-Stokes system. The two fluids are assumed to be immiscible, meaning that they are separated by an interface. With respect to the motion of the interface, we consider pure transport by the fluid flow. Along the boundary of the domain, a complete slip boundary condition for the fluid velocities and a constant ninety degree contact angle condition for the interface are assumed. The main result of the present work establishes in 2D a weak-strong uniqueness result in terms of a varifold solution concept \`a la Abels (Interfaces Free Bound. 9, 2007). The proof is based on a relative entropy argument. More precisely, we extend ideas from the recent work of Fischer and the first author (Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 236, 2020) to incorporate the contact angle condition. To focus on the effects of the necessarily singular geometry, we work for simplicity in the regime of same viscosities for the two fluids.