Viscoelastic Navier-Stokes equations with damping

Series
PDE Seminar
Time
Tuesday, February 14, 2012 - 3:05pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 005
Speaker
Ryan Hynd – Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Organizer
Andrzej Swiech
We prove an analog of the Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg theorem for weak solutions of a system of PDE that model a viscoelastic fluid in the presence of an energy damping mechanism. The system was recently introduced in a method of establishing the global in time existence of weak solutions of the well known Oldroyd model, which remains an open problem.