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We consider the planar Taylor-Couette system for the steady motion of a viscous incompressible fluid in the region between two concentric disks, the inner one being at rest and the outer one rotating with constant angular speed. We study the uniqueness and multiplicity of solutions to the forced system in different classes. For any angular velocity we prove that the classical Taylor-Couette flow is the unique smooth solution displaying rotational symmetry. Instead, we show that infinitely many solutions arise, even for arbitrarily small angular velocities, in a larger, class of \textit{incomplete} solutions that we introduce. By prescribing the transversal flux, unique solvability of the Taylor-Couette system is recovered among rotationally invariant incomplete solutions. Finally, we study the behavior of these solutions as the radius of the outer disk goes to infinity, connecting our results with the celebrated Stokes paradox., Comment: 26 pages

We prove that if $00$, where $\mathcal{F}_{\gamma}(s)=s\, [\ln{}(1+ s)]^{1+\gamma}$ and the subscripts "$-$" and "$+$" denote the negative and the nonnegative part, respectively, then the solution $(\mathbf{u},\mathbf{b},p)$ has no singular points in $\mathbb{R}^3\times(0,T_0]$.

We show that if u is a weak solution to the Navier-Stokes initial-boundary value problem with Navier's slip boundary conditions in $Q_T:=\Omega\times(0,T)$, where $\Omega$ is a domain in $R^3$, then an associated pressure $p$ exists as a distribution with a certain structure. Furthermore, we also show that if $\Omega$ is a "smooth" domain in $R^3$ then the pressure is represented by a function in $Q_T$ with a certain rate of integrability. Finally, we study the regularity of the pressure in sub-domains of $Q_T$, where $u$ satisfies Serrin's integrability conditions.

We formulate a new criterion for regularity of a suitable weak solution v to the Navier-Stokes equations at the space-time point (x_0,t_0). The criterion imposes a Serrin-type integrability condition on v only in a backward neighbourhood of (x_0,t_0), intersected with the exterior of a certain space-time paraboloid with vertex at point (x_0,t_0). We make no special assumptions on the solution in the interior of the paraboloid.

We deal with a weak solution v to the Navier-Stokes initial value problem in R^3 x(0,T). We denote by \omega^+ a spectral projection of \omega=\curl\, v, defined by means of the spectral resolution of identity associated with the self-adjoint operator \curl. We show that certain conditions imposed on \omega^+ or, alternatively, only on \omega^+_3 (the third component of \omega^+) imply regularity of solution v., Comment: 16 pages

We consider the compressible (barotropic) Navier-Stokes system on time-dependent domains, supplemented with slip boundary conditions. Our approach is based on penalization of the boundary behaviour, viscosity, and the pressure in the weak formulation. Global-in-time weak solutions are obtained.