Global well-posedness and uniform-in-time vanishing damping limit for the inviscid Oldroyd-B model

TL;DR

This paper establishes global well-posedness, decay rates, and the vanishing damping limit for the inviscid Oldroyd-B model in 2D and 3D, advancing understanding of fluid models with minimal regularity assumptions.

Contribution

It introduces the first global existence results in low regularity for the 2D model and proves the uniform-in-time vanishing damping limit, linking damping rates with decay behavior.

Findings

Global strong solutions exist in low regularity classes.

Uniform-in-time vanishing damping limit is established.

Optimal decay rates and time integrability are achieved.

Abstract

In this paper, we consider global strong solutions and uniform-in-time vanishing damping limit for the inviscid Oldroyd-B model in R^d, where d=2 and 3. The well-recognized problem of the global existence of smooth solutions for the 2D inviscid Oldroyd-B model without smallness assumptions is open due to the complex structure of Q. Therefore improving the smallness assumptions, especially in lower regularity class, is the core question in the area of fluid models. On the other hand, long-time behaviors of solutions including temporal decay and uniform-in-time damping stability are also of deep significance. These problems have been widely studied, however, the existing results are not regularity critical and the (uniform) vanishing damping limit has not been discussed. The goal of this work is to dig deeper in this direction. In this work we first establish the local well-posedness in the sense of Hadamard with critical regularity. Then, by virtue of the sharp commutator estimate for Calderon-Zygmund operator, we establish the global existence of solutions for d=2 with damping in the low regularity class, which to our best knowledge, is novel in the literature. Furthermore, in both 2D and 3D cases, we prove the global existence of the solutions to the inviscid Oldroyd-B model independent of the damping parameters. In addition, we obtain the optimal temporal decay rates and time integrability by improving the existing Fourier splitting method and developing a novel decomposition strategy. One of the major contributions of the presenting paper is to prove the uniform-in-time vanishing damping limit for the inviscid Oldroyd-B model and discover the correlation between sharp vanishing damping rate and the temporal decay rate. Finally, we will support our findings by providing numerical evidence regarding the vanishing damping limit in the periodic domain T^d.