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We are concerned with the construction of global-in-time strong solutions for the incompressible Vlasov-Navier-Stokes systemin the whole three-dimensional space. One of our goals is to establish that small initial velocities with critical Sobolev regularity and sufficiently well localized initial kinetic distribution functions give rise to global and unique solutions. This constitutes an extension of the celebrated result for the incompressibleNavier-Stokes equations (NS) that has been established in 1964 by Fujita and Kato. If in addition the initial velocity is integrable, we establish that the total energy of the system decays to 0 with the optimal rate t^{-3/2}, like for the weak solutions of (NS). Our results partly rely on the use of a higher order energy functional that controls the regularity $H^1$ of the velocityand seems to have been first introduced by Li, Shou and Zhang in the contextof nonhomogeneous Vlasov-Navier-Stokes system. In the small data case, we show that this energy functional decays with the rate t^{-5/2}.

We consider the evolution of two-dimensional incompressible flows with variable density, only bounded and bounded away from zero. Assuming that the initial velocity belongs to a suitable critical subspace of L^2 , we prove a global-in-time existence and stability result for the initial (boundary) value problem. Our proof relies on new time decay estimates for finite energy weak solutions and on a 'dynamic interpolation' argument. We show that the constructed solutions have a uniformly C^1 flow, which ensures the propagation of geometrical structures in the fluid and guarantees that the Eulerian and Lagrangian formulations of the equations are equivalent. By adopting this latter formulation, we establish the uniqueness of the solutions for prescribed data, and the continuity of the flow map in an energy-like functional framework. In contrast with prior works, our results hold true in the critical regularity setting without any smallness assumption. Our approach uses only elementary tools and applies indistinctly to the cases where the fluid domain is the whole plane, a smooth two-dimensional bounded domain or the torus.

We here investigate a modification of the compressible barotropic Euler system with friction, involving a fuzzy nonlocal pressure term in place of the conventional one. This nonlocal term is parameterized by $\epsilon$ > 0 and formally tends to the classical pressure when $\epsilon$ approaches zero. The central challenge is to establish that this system is a reliable approximation of the classical compressible Euler system. We establish the global existence and uniqueness of regular solutions in the neighborhood of the static state with density 1 and null velocity. Our results are demonstrated independently of the parameter $\epsilon$, which enable us to prove the convergence of solutions to those of the classical Euler system. Another consequence is the rigorous justification of the convergence of the mass equation to various versions of the porous media equation in the asymptotic limit where the friction tends to infinity. Note that our results are demonstrated in the whole space, which necessitates the use of a suitable L^1-in-time space framework.

We are concerned with the isentropic compressible Navier-Stokes system in the two-dimensional torus, with rough data and vacuum : the initial velocity is in the Sobolev space H^1 and the initial density is only bounded and nonnegative. Arbitrary regions of vacuum are admissible, and no compatibility condition is required. Under these assumptions and for large enough bulk viscosity, global solutions have been constructed in [7]. The main goal of the paper is to establish that these solutions converge exponentially fast to a constant state, and to specify the convergence rate in terms of the viscosity coefficients. We also prove exponential decay estimates for the solutions to the inhomogeneous incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. This latter result extends to the torus case the recent paper [9] dedicated to this system in smooth bounded domains.

In this article, we prove the existence of global solutions to the inhomogeneous incompressible Navier--Stokes equations, whenever the initial velocity belongs to some subspace of $\mathrm{BMO}^{-1}$, and the initial density is sufficiently close to $1$ in the uniform metric. This is a natural extension to the variable density case of the celebrated result by H. Koch and D. Tataru concerning the classical Navier-Stokes equations., Comment: Many typos corrected; a few references added

The present paper is devoted to the proof of time decay estimates for derivatives at any order of finite energy global solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations in general two-dimensional domains. These estimates only depend on the order of derivation and on the L2 norm of the initial data. The same elementary method just based on energy estimates and Ladyzhenskaya inequality also leads to Gevrey regularity results.

Many physical phenomena may be modelled by first order hyperbolic equations with degenerate dissipative or diffusive terms. This is the case for example in gas dynamics, where the mass is conserved during the evolution, but the momentum balance includes a diffusion (viscosity) or damping (relaxation) term, or, in numerical simulations, of conservation laws by relaxation schemes. Such so-called partially dissipative systems have been first pointed out by S.K. Godunov in a short note in Russian in 1961. Much later, in 1984, S. Kawashima highlighted in his PhD thesis a simple criterion ensuring the existence of global strong solutions in the vicinity of a linearly stable constant state. This criterion has been revisited in a number of research works. In particular, K. Beauchard and E. Zuazua proposed in 2010 an explicit method for constructing a Lyapunov functional allowing to refine Kawashima's results and to establish global existence results in some situations that were not covered before. These notes originate essentially from the PhD thesis of T. Crin-Barat that was initially motivated by an earlier observation of the author in a Chapter of the handbook coedited by Y. Giga and A. Novotn{\'y}. Our main aim is to adapt the method of Beauchard and Zuazua to a class of symmetrizable quasilinear hyperbolic systems (containing the compressible Euler equations), in a critical regularity setting that allows to keep track of the dependence with respect to e.g. the relaxation parameter. Compared to Beauchard and Zuazua's work, we exhibit a 'damped mode' that will have a key role in the construction of global solutions with critical regularity, in the proof of optimal time-decay estimates and, last but not least, in the study of the strong relaxation limit. For simplicity, we here focus on a simple class of partially dissipative systems, but the overall strategy is rather flexible, and adaptable to much more involved situations.

We here aim at proving the global existence and uniqueness of solutions to the inhomogeneous incompressible Navier-Stokes system in the case where the initial density is discontinuous and the initial velocity has critical regularity. Assuming that the initial density is close to a positive constant, we obtain global existence and uniqueness in the two-dimensional case whenever the initial velocity belongs to some critical homogeneous Besov space (and in small in the three-dimensional case). Next, still in a critical functional framework, we establish a uniqueness statement that is valid in the case of large variations of density with, possibly, vacuum. Interestingly, our result implies that the Fujita-Kato type solutions constructed by P. Zhang in are unique. Our work relies on interpolation results, time weighted estimates and maximal regularity estimates in Lorentz spaces (with respect to the time variable) for the evolutionary Stokes system.

Here we investigate global strong solutions for a class of partially dissipative hyperbolic systems in the framework of critical homogeneous Besov spaces. Our primary goal is to extend the analysis of our previous paper [10] to a functional framework where the low frequencies of the solution are only bounded in L p-type spaces with p larger than 2. This enables us to prescribe weaker smallness conditions for global well-posedness and to get a more accurate information on the qualitative properties of the constructed solutions. Our existence theorem in particular applies to the multi-dimensional isentropic compressible Euler system with relaxation, and provide us with bounds that are independent of the relaxation parameter. As a consequence, we justify rigorously the relaxation limit to the porous media equation and exhibit explicit rates of convergence for suitable norms, a completely new result to the best of our knowledge.

We are concerned with the barotropic compressible Navier-Stokes system in a bounded domain of $\mathbb{R}^d$ (with $d\geq2$). In a critical regularity setting, we establish local well-posedness for large data with no vacuum and global well-posedness for small perturbations of a stable constant equilibrium state.Our results rely on new maximal regularity estimates - of independent interest - for the semigroup of the Lam\{\'e} operator, and of the linearized compressible Navier-Stokes equations.

We consider the inhomogeneous incompressible Navier-Stokes system in a smooth two or three dimensional bounded domain, in the case where the initial density is only bounded. Existence and uniqueness for such initial data was shown recently in [10], but the stability issue was left open. After observing that the solutions constructed in [10] have exponential decay, a result of independent interest, we prove the stability with respect to initial data, first in Lagrangian coordinates, and then in the Eulerian frame. We actually obtain stability in $L_2({\mathbb R}_+;H^1(\Omega))$ for the velocity and in a negative Sobolev space for the density. Let us underline that, as opposed to prior works, in case of vacuum, our stability estimates are not weighted by the initial densities. Hence, our result applies in particular to the classical density patches problem, where the density is a characteristic function.

We are concerned with quasilinear symmetrizable partially dissipative hyperbolic systems in the whole space $\mathbb{R}^d$ with $d\geq2$. Following our recent work [10] dedicated to the one-dimensional case, we establish the existence of global strong solutions and decay estimates in the critical regularity setting whenever the system under consideration satisfies the so-called (SK) (for Shizuta-Kawashima) condition. Our results in particular apply to the compressible Euler system with damping in the velocity equation. Compared to the papers by Kawashima and Xu [27, 28] devoted to similar issues, our use of hybrid Besov norms with different regularity exponents in low and high frequency enable us to pinpoint optimal smallness conditions for global well-posedness and to get more accurate information on the qualitative properties of the constructed solutions. A great part of our analysis relies on the study of a Lyapunov functional in the spirit of that of Beauchard and Zuazua in [2]. Exhibiting a damped mode with faster time decay than the whole solution also plays a key role.

Here we develop a method for investigating global strong solutions of partially dissipative hyperbolic systems in the critical regularity setting. Compared to the recent works by Kawashima and Xu, we use hybrid Besov spaces with different regularity exponent in low and high frequency. This allows to consider more general data and to track the exact dependency on the dissipation parameter for the solution. Our approach enables us to go beyond the L^2 framework in the treatment of the low frequencies of the solution, which is totally new, to the best of our knowledge. Focus is on the one-dimensional setting (the multi-dimensional case will be considered in a forthcoming paper) and, for expository purpose, the first part of the paper is devoted to a toy model that may be seen as a simplification of the compressible Euler system with damping. More elaborated systems (including the compressible Euler system with general increasing pressure law) are considered at the end of the paper.

An $\mathrm{L}_1$-maximal regularity theory for parabolic evolution equations inspired by the pioneering work of Da Prato and Grisvard is developed. Besides of its own interest, the approach yields a framework allowing global-in-time control of the change of Eulerian to Lagrangian coordinates in various problems related to fluid mechanics. This property is of course decisive for free boundary problems. This concept is illustrated by the analysis of the free boundary value problem describing the motion of viscous, incompressible Newtonian fluids without surface tension and, secondly, the motion of compressible pressureless gases. For this purpose, an endpoint maximal $\mathrm{L}_1$-regularity approach to the Stokes and Lam\'e systems is developed. It is applied then to establish global, strong well-posedness results for the free boundary problems described above in the case where the initial domain coincides with the half-space, and the initial velocity is small with respect to a suitable scaling invariant norm., Comment: Completely revised version compared to the first version. Sections 6 and 7 on the Lam\'e system on an analysis of a free boundary problem for pressureless gases were added

We are concerned with global-in-time existence and uniqueness results for models of pressureless gases that come up in the description of phenomena in astrophysics or collective behavior. The initial data are rough: in particular, the density is only bounded. Our results are based on interpolation and parabolic maximal regularity, where Lorentz spaces play a key role. We establish a novel maximal regularity estimate for parabolic systems in $L_{q,r}(0,T;L_p(\Omega))$ spaces.

We are concerned with the 3D incompressible Hall-magnetohydro-dynamic system (Hall-MHD). Our first aim is to provide the reader with an elementary proof of a global well-posedness result for small data with critical Sobolev regularity, in the spirit of Fujita-Kato's theorem [10] for the Navier-Stokes equations. Next, we investigate the long-time asymptotics of global solutions of the Hall-MHD system that are in the Fujita-Kato regularity class. A weak-strong uniqueness statement is also proven. Finally, we consider the so-called 2 1/2 D flows for the Hall-MHD system, and prove the global existence of strong solutions, assuming only that the initial magnetic field is small.

We investigate the existence and uniqueness issues of the 3D incompressible Hall-magnetohydrodynamic system supplemented with initial velocity $u_0$ and magnetic field $B_0$ in critical regularity spaces.In the case where $u_0,$ $B_0$ and the current $J_0:=\nabla\times B_0$ belong to the homogeneous Besov space $\dot B^{\frac 3p-1}_{p,1},$ $\:1\leq p<\infty,$ and are small enough, we establish a global result and the conservation of higher regularity.If the viscosity is equal to the magnetic resistivity, then we obtain the global well-posedness provided $u_0,$ $B_0$ and $J_0$ are small enough in the \emph{larger} Besov space $\dot B^{\frac12}_{2,r},$ $r\geq1.$If $r=1,$ then we also establish the local existence for large data, and exhibit continuation criteria for solutions with critical regularity. Our results rely on an extended formulation of the Hall-MHD system, that has some similarities with the incompressibleNavier-Stokes equations.

We consider the Cauchy problem for the barotropic Euler system coupled to Helmholtz or Poisson equations, in the whole space. We assume that the initial density is small enough, and that the initial velocity is close to some reference vector field u0 such that the spectrum of Du0 is bounded away from zero. We prove the existence of a global unique solution with (fractional) Sobolev regularity, and algebraic time decay estimates. Our work extends the papers by D. Serre and M. Grassin [20, 21, 43] dedicated to the compressible Euler system without coupling and integer regularity exponents.

Here we prove the all-time propagation of the Sobolev regularity for the velocity field solution of the two-dimensional compressible Navier-Stokes equations, provided the volume (bulk) viscosity coefficient is large enough. The initial velocity can be arbitrarily large and the initial density is just required to be bounded. In particular, one can consider a characteristic function of a set as an initial density. Uniqueness of the solutions to the equations is shown, in the case of a perfect gas. As a by-product of our results, we give a rigorous justification of the convergence to the inhomogeneous incompressible Navier-Stokes equations when the volume viscosity tends to infinity. Similar results are proved in the three-dimensional case, under some scaling invariant smallness condition on the velocity field.

We are concerned with an isothermal model of viscous and capillary compressible fluids derived by J. E. Dunn and J. Serrin (1985), which can be used as a phase transition model. Compared with the classical compressible Navier-Stokes equations, there is a smoothing effect on the density that comes from the capillary terms. First, we prove that the global solutions with critical regularity that have been constructed in [11] by the second author and B. Desjardins (2001), are Gevrey analytic. Second, we extend that result to a more general critical L p framework. As a consequence, we obtain algebraic time-decay estimates in critical Besov spaces (and even exponential decay for the high frequencies) for any derivatives of the solution. Our approach is partly inspired by the work of Bae, Biswas \& Tadmor [2] dedicated to the classical incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, and requires our establishing new bilinear estimates (of independent interest) involving the Gevrey regularity for the product or composition of functions. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work pointing out Gevrey analyticity for a model of compressible fluids.

We are concerned with the existence and uniqueness of solutions with only bounded density for the barotropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations. Assuming that the initial velocity has slightly sub-critical regularity and that the initial density is a small perturbation (in the $L^\infty$ norm) of a positive constant, we prove the existence of local-in-time solutions. In the case where the density takes two constant values across a smooth interface (or, more generally, has striated regularity with respect to some nondegenerate family of vector-fields), we get uniqueness. This latter result supplements the work by D. Hoff in [26] with a uniqueness statement, and is valid in any dimension $d\geq2$ and for general pressure laws., Comment: Submitted

We here construct (large) local and small global-in-time regular unique solutions to the fractional Euler alignment system in the whole space ${\mathbb R}^d$, in the case where the deviation of the initial density from a constant is sufficiently small. Our analysis strongly relies on the use of Besov spaces of the type $L^1(0,T;\dot B^s_{p,1})$, which allow to get time independent estimates for the density even though it satisfies a transport equation with no damping. Our choice of a functional setting is not optimal but aims at providing a transparent and accessible argumentation.

This paper is concerned with the mathematical derivation of the inhomoge-neous incompressible Navier-Stokes equations (INS) from the compressible Navier-Stokes equations (CNS) in the large volume viscosity limit. We first prove a result of large time existence of regular solutions for (CNS). Next, as a consequence, we establish that the solutions of (CNS) converge to those of (INS) when the volume viscosity tends to infinity. Analysis is performed in the two dimensional torus, for general initial data. In particular, we are able to handle large variations of density.

We are concerned with the existence and uniqueness issue for the inhomogeneous incompressible Navier-Stokes equations supplemented with H^1 initial velocity and only bounded nonnegative density. In contrast with all the previous works on that topics, we do not require regularity or positive lower bound for the initial density, or compatibility conditions for the initial velocity, and still obtain unique solutions. Those solutions are global in the two-dimensional case for general data, and in the three-dimensional case if the velocity satisfies a suitable scaling invariant smallness condition. As a straightforward application, we provide a complete answer to Lions' question in [25], page 34, concerning the evolution of a drop of incompressible viscous fluid in the vacuum.

The final goal of the present work is to extend the Fourier transform on the Heisenberg group $\H^d,$ to tempered distributions. As in the Euclidean setting, the strategy is to first show that the Fourier transform is an isomorphism on the Schwartz space, then to define the extension by duality. The difficulty that is here encountered is that the Fourier transform of an integrable function on $\H^d$is no longer a function on $\H^d$ : according to the standard definition, it is a family of bounded operators on $L^2(\R^d).$ Following our new approach in\ccite{bcdFHspace}, we here define the Fourier transform of an integrable functionto be a mapping on the set~$\wt\H^d=\N^d\times\N^d\times\R\setminus\{0\}$endowed with a suitable distance $\wh d$.This viewpoint turns out to provide a user friendly description of the range of the Schwartz space on $\H^d$ by the Fourier transform, which makes the extension to the whole set of tempered distributions straightforward. As a first application, we give an explicit formula for the Fourier transform of smooth functions on $\H^d$ that are independent of the vertical variable. We also provide other examples.

The global existence issue in critical regularity spaces for the full Navier-Stokes equationssatisfied by compressible viscous and heat-conductive gases has been first addressed in \cite{D2}, then recently extended to the general $L^p$ framework in \cite{DH}.In the present work, we establish decay estimates for the global solutions constructed in \cite{DH}, under anadditional mild integrability assumption that is satisfied if the low frequencies of the initial data are in $L^{p/2}({\mathbb{R}}^d).$As a by-product we recover in dimension three the classical decay rate $t^{-\frac34}$ for $t\to+\infty$ that has been observed by A. Matsumura and T. Nishida in \cite{MN2} for solutions with high Sobolev regularity. Compared to a recent paper of us \cite{DX} dedicated to the barotropic case, not only we are able to treat the full system, but we also improve the decay rates for the high frequencies of the solution. We believe the correspondant decay exponents to be optimal.

In our recent work dedicated to the Boussinesq equations [Danchin and Zhang 2016], we established the persistence of solutions with piecewise constant temperature along interfaces with H\"older regularity. We here address the same problem for the inhomogeneous Navier-Stokes equations satisfied by a viscous incompressibleand inhomogeneous fluid. We establish that, indeed, in the slightly inhomogeneous case, patches of densities with $\mathcal{C}^{1, \varepsilon}$ regularity propagate for all time. As in [Danchin and Zhang 2016], our result follows from the conservation of H\"older regularityalong vector fields moving with the flow. The proof of that latter result is based on commutator estimates involving para-vector fields, and multiplier spaces. The overall analysis is more complicated than in [Danchin and Zhang 2016] however, since the coupling between the mass and velocity equations in the inhomogeneous Navier-Stokes equations is \emph{quasilinear} while it is linear for the Boussinesq equations.

We here revisit Fourier analysis on the Heisenberg group H^d. Whereas, according to the standard definition, the Fourier transform of an integrable function f on H^d is a one parameter family of bounded operators on L 2 (R^d), we define (by taking advantage of basic properties of Hermite functions) the Fourier transform f\_H of f to be a uniformly continuous mapping on the set N^d x N^d xR \ {0} endowed with a suitable distance. This enables us to extend f\_H to the completion of that space, and to get an explicit asymptotic description of the Fourier transform when the 'vertical' frequency tends to 0. We expect our approach to be relevant for adapting to the Heisenberg framework a number of classical results for the Euclidean case that are based on Fourier analysis. As an example, we here establish an explicit extension of the Fourier transform for smooth functions on H^d that are independent of the vertical variable.

The global existence issue for the isentropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations in the critical regularity framework has been addressed in [7] more than fifteen years ago. However, whether (optimal) time-decay rates could be shown in general critical spaces and any dimension d $\ge$ 2 has remained an open question. Here we give a positive answer to that issue not only in the L 2 critical framework of [7] but also in the more general L p critical framework of [3, 6, 14]. More precisely, we show that under a mild additional decay assumption that is satisfied if the low frequencies of the initial data are in e.g. L p/2 (R d), the L p norm (the slightly stronger $\dot B^0_{p,1}$ norm in fact) of the critical global solutions decays like t --d(1 p -- 1 4) for t $\rightarrow$ +$\infty$, exactly as firstly observed by A. Matsumura and T. Nishida in [23] in the case p = 2 and d = 3, for solutions with high Sobolev regularity. Our method relies on refined time weighted inequalities in the Fourier space, and is likely to be effective for other hyperbolic/parabolic systems that are encountered in fluid mechanics or mathematical physics.

Here we investigate the so-called temperature patch problem for the incompressible Boussinesq system with partial viscosity, in the whole space $\mathbb{R}^N$ $(N \geq 2)$, where the initial temperature is the characteristic function of some simply connected domain with $C^{1, \varepsilon}$ H{\"o}lder regularity. Although recent results in [1, 15] ensure that an initially $C^1$ patch persists through the evolution, whether higher regularity is preserved has remained an open question. In the present paper, we give a positive answer to that issue globally in time, in the 2-D case for large initial data and in the higher dimension case for small initial data.

Here we prove the existence of global in time regular solutions to the two-dimensional compressible Navier-Stokes equations supplemented with arbitrary large initial velocity $v\_0$ and almost constantdensity $\varrho\_0$, for large volume (bulk) viscosity. The result is generalized to the higher dimensional case under the additional assumption that the strong solution of the classical incompressible Navier-Stokes equations supplemented with the divergence-freeprojection of $v\_0,$ is global. The systems are examined in $R^d$ with $d \geq 2$, in the critical $\dot B^s\_{2,1}$ Besov spaces framework.

Here we aim at justifying rigorously different types of physically relevant diffusive limits for radiative flows. For simplicity, we consider the barotropic situation, and adopt the so-called P1-approximation of the radiative transfer equation. In the critical functional framework, we establish the existence of global-in-time strong solutions corresponding to small enough data, and exhibit uniform estimates with respect to the coefficients of the system. Combining with standard compactness arguments, this enables us to justify rigorously the convergence of the solutions to the expected limit systems. Our results hold true in the whole space as well as in a periodic box in dimension n $\ge$ 2.

In the last three decades, Fourier analysis methods have known a growing importance in the study of linear and nonlinear PDE's. In particular, techniques based on Littlewood-Paley decomposition and paradifferential calculus have proved to be very efficient for investigating evolutionary fluid mechanics equations in the whole space or in the torus. We here give an overview of results that we can get by Fourier analysis and paradifferential calculus, for the compressible Navier-Stokes equations. We focus on the Initial Value Problem in the case where the fluid domain is the whole space or the torus in dimension at least two, and also establish some asymptotic properties of global small solutions. The time decay estimates in the critical regularity framework that are stated at the end of the survey are new, to the best of our knowledge.

This paper aims at justifying the low Mach number convergence to the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations for viscous compressible flows in the ill-prepared data case. The fluid domain is either the whole space, or the torus. A number of works have been dedicated to this classical issue, all of them being, to our knowledge, related to $L^2$ spaces and to energy type arguments. In the present paper, we investigate the low Mach number convergence in the $L^p$ type critical regularity framework. More precisely, in the barotropic case, the divergence-free part of the initial velocity field just has to be bounded in the critical Besov space $\dot B^{d/p-1}_{p,r}\cap\dot B^{-1}_{\infty,1}$ for some suitable $(p,r)\in[2,4]\times[1,+\infty].$ We still require $L^2$ type bounds on the low frequencies of the potential part of the velocity and on the density, though, an assumption which seems to be unavoidable in the ill-prepared data framework, because of acoustic waves. In the last part of the paper, our results are extended to the full Navier-Stokes system for heat conducting fluids.

We are concerned with the Cauchy problem of the full compressible Navier-Stokes equations satisfied by viscous and heat conducting fluids in $\mathbb{R}^n.$ We focus on the so-called critical Besov regularity framework. In this setting, it is natural to consider initial densities $\rho_0,$ velocity fields $u_0$ and temperatures $\theta_0$ with $a_0:=\rho_0-1\in\dot B^{\frac np}_{p,1},$ $u_0\in\dot B^{\frac np-1}_{p,1}$ and $\theta_0\in\dot B^{\frac np-2}_{p,1}.$ After recasting the whole system in Lagrangian coordinates, and working with the \emph{total energy along the flow} rather than with the temperature, we discover that the system may be solved by means of Banach fixed point theorem in a critical functional framework whenever the space dimension is $n\geq2,$ and $1

This work is the continuation of the recent paper \cite{D2} devoted to the density-dependent incompressible Euler equations. Here we concentrate on the well-posedness issue in Besov spaces of type $B^s_{\infty,r}$ embedded in the set of Lipschitz continuous functions, a functional framework which contains the particular case of H\"older spaces and of the endpoint Besov space $B^1_{\infty,1}.$ For such data and under the nonvacuum assumption, we establish the local well-posedness and a continuation criterion in the spirit of that of Beale, Kato and Majda in \cite{BKM}. In the last part of the paper, we give lower bounds for the lifespan of a solution. In dimension two, we point out that the lifespan tends to infinity when the initial density tends to be a constant. This is, to our knowledge, the first result of this kind for the density-dependent incompressible Euler equations.

In this paper we study the validity of the so-called Oberbeck-Boussinesq approximation for compressible viscous perfect gases in the whole three-dimensional space. Both the cases of uids with positive heat conductivity and zero conductivity are considered. For small perturbations of a constant equilibrium, we establish the global existence of unique strong solutions in a critical regularity functional framework. Next, taking advantage of Strichartz estimates for the associated system of acoustic waves, and of uniform estimates with respect to the Mach number, we obtain all-time convergence to the Boussinesq system with a explicit decay rate., Comment: Asymptotic Analysis (2013) 35 pages

In this paper, we establish the global existence of small solutions to the inhomogeneous Navier-Stokes system in the half-space. The initial density only has to be bounded and close enough to a positive constant, and the initial velocity belongs to some critical Besov space. With a little bit more regularity for the initial velocity, those solutions are proved to be unique. In the last section of the paper, our results are partially extended to the bounded domain case.

We investigate the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with variable density. The aim is to prove existence and uniqueness results in the case of discontinuous ini- tial density. In dimension n = 2, 3, assuming only that the initial density is bounded and bounded away from zero, and that the initial velocity is smooth enough, we get the local-in-time existence of unique solutions. Uniqueness holds in any dimension and for a wider class of velocity fields. Let us emphasize that all those results are true for piecewise constant densities with arbitrarily large jumps. Global results are established in dimension two if the density is close enough to a positive constant, and in n-dimension if, in addition, the initial velocity is small. The Lagrangian formula- tion for describing the flow plays a key role in the analysis that is proposed in the present paper., Comment: 32 pages

This paper is dedicated to the proof of new maximal regularity results involving Besov spaces for the heat equation in the half-space or in bounded or exterior domains of R^n. We strive for time independent a priori estimates in regularity spaces of type L^1(0,T;X) where X stands for some homogeneous Besov space. In the case of bounded domains, the results that we get are similar to those of the whole space or of the half-space. For exterior domains, we need to use mixed Besov norms in order to get a control on the low frequencies. Those estimates are crucial for proving global-in-time results for nonlinear heat equations in a critical functional framework., Comment: 28 pages

This work is devoted to the well-posedness issue for the low-Mach number limit system obtained from the full compressible Navier-Stokes system, in the whole space. In the case where the initial temperature (or density) is close to a positive constant, we establish the local existence and uniqueness of a solution in critical homogeneous Besov spaces. If, in addition, the initial velocity is small then we show that the solution exists for all positive time. In the fully nonhomogeneous case, we establish the local well-posedness in nonhomogeneous Besov spaces (still with critical regularity) for arbitrarily large data with positive initial temperature. Our analysis strongly relies on the use of a modified divergence-free velocity which allows to reduce the system to a nonlinear coupling between a parabolic equation and some evolutionary Stokes system. The Lebesgue exponents of the Besov spaces for the temperature and the (modified) velocity, need not be the same. This enables us to consider initial data in Besov spaces with a negative index of regularity., Comment: To appear in Communications in Contemporary Mathematics. First version was submitted on Feb. 28th, 2011

Here we investigate the Cauchy problem for the barotropic Navier-Stokes equations in R^n, in the critical Besov spaces setting. We improve recent results as regards the uniqueness condition: initial velocities in critical Besov spaces with (not too) \emph{negative} indices generate a unique local solution. Apart from (critical) regularity, the initial density just has to be bounded away from 0 and to tend to some positive constant at infinity. Density-dependent viscosity coefficients may be considered. Using Lagrangian coordinates is the key to our statements as it enables us to solve the system by means of the basic contraction mapping theorem. As a consequence, conditions for uniqueness are the same as for existence, and Lipschitz continuity of the flow map (in Lagrangian coordinates) is established.

We give lower bounds for the lifespan of a solution to the inviscid Boussinesq system. In dimension two, we point out that it tends to infinity when the initial (relative) temperature tends to zero. This is, to the best of our knowledge, the first result of this kind for the inviscid Boussinesq system. In passing, we provide continuation criteria (of independent interest) in the $N$-dimensional case. In the second part of the paper, our method is adapted to handle the axisymmetric incompressible Euler equations with swirl., Comment: 13