A weighted setting for the stationary Navier Stokes equations under singular forcing
This provides a theoretical foundation for handling singular forcing in fluid dynamics, but the results are incremental as they extend existing weighted space theory to a specific PDE system.
The authors prove existence of solutions to the stationary Navier-Stokes equations in weighted spaces with Muckenhoupt weights, enabling a priori error estimates for approximations with singular sources.
In two dimensions, we show existence of solutions to the stationary Navier Stokes equations on weighted spaces $\mathbf{H}^1_0(ω,Ω) \times L^2(ω,Ω)$, where the weight belongs to the Muckenhoupt class $A_2$. We show how this theory can be applied to obtain a priori error estimates for approximations of the solution to the Navier Stokes problem with singular sources.