
Global existence and stability for the limit system 133
and
b
1
2
def
=
b
2
L
∞
(R
+
;H
1
2
(T
d
))
+ νb
2
L
2
(R
+
;H
3
2
(T
d
))
1
2
.
Let us prove the following results.
Proposition 6.3 (Global well-posedness) Let
u
0
and u
0,osc
be two diver-
gence-free vector fields, respectively, in H
1
2
(T
2
) and in H
1
2
(T
3
) such
that u
0,osc
(x
h
, ·) is mean-free on T
1
, and define u
0
=
u
0
+ u
0,osc
. Let us consider
also an external force f =
f + f
osc
, where f is in L
2
(R
+
; H
−
1
2
(T
2
)) and f
osc
in L
2
(R
+
; H
−
1
2
(T
3
)) and mean-free on T
1
x
3
. Then there exists a unique global
solution u to the system (NS2D − S
osc
), and
u =
u + u
osc
with u ∈ E
1
2
(T
2
) and u
osc
∈ E
1
2
(T
3
).
Moreover, the solution u goes to zero as time goes to infinity:
lim
t→+∞
u(t, ·)
H
1
2
=0. (6.4.1)
Proposition 6.4 (Stability) The application
(u
0
,f) ∈E→ u ∈
E
1
2
(T
2
)+E
1
2
(T
3
)
,
where
E
def
=
H
1
2
(T
2
)+H
1
2
(T
3
)
×
L
2
(R
+
; H
−1
(T
2
)) + L
2
(R
+
; H
−
1
2
(T
3
))
mapping the initial data u
0
=
u
0
+ u
0,osc
and external force f = f + f
osc
to the
solution u =
u + u
osc
of (NS2D − S
osc
) given in Proposition 6.3 is Lipschitz on
bounded subsets of E.
Proof of Proposition 6.3 The fact that there is a unique global solution
u
to (NS2D) in the space E
1
2
is nothing but Theorem 3.7, page 80.
Now let us consider the system (S
osc
); it has a priori the structure of the three-
dimensional Navier–Stokes equations, so it is much less obvious that it can be
solved uniquely, globally in time. The key to the proof of that result is that
the three-dimensional interactions in Q(u
osc
,u
osc
) are sufficiently few to enable
one to write two-dimensional-type estimates, and hence to conclude. That was
studied extensively in the previous section, so we shall be referring here to
Proposition 6.2.
Let us start by noticing that due to the skew-symmetry of Q shown in (6.3.1)
(with s = 0), we have as for Leray solutions of the three-dimensional Navier–
Stokes equations the energy estimate
u
osc
(t)
2
L
2
(T
3
)
+ ν
t
0
u
osc
(t
′
)
2
H
1
(T
3
)
dt
′
≤u
0,osc
2
L
2
(T
3
)
+
C
ν
t
0
f
osc
(t
′
)
2
H
−1
(T
3
)
dt
′
. (6.4.2)