
144 The periodic case
recalling that ∂
τ
L + PR
π
2
L = 0 where R
π
2
is the rotation by angle π/2. Finally
we have
ε∂
t
u
ε,η
1
+ P
u
ε,η
1
∧ e
3
= L
t
ε
(Q−Q
ε
)(u
N
η
,u
N
η
)+εL
t
ε
R
ε,t
η
.
Since u
ε,η
1
is arbitrarily smooth (for a fixed η) and so is R
ε,t
η
, we find finally that
εPL
ε
ν
u
ε,η
1
= R
ε,η
+ L
t
ε
(Q−Q
ε
)(u
N
η
,u
N
η
),
and Lemma 6.4 is proved.
6.6 Study of the limit system with anisotropic viscosity
In Chapter 7, we shall be dealing with a fluid evolving between two fixed hori-
zontal plates at x
3
= 0 and x
3
= 1, with Dirichlet boundary conditions on the
plates, and periodic horizontal boundary conditions. In that case we will see that
the limit system is quite similar to the purely periodic case, apart from the fact
that there is no vertical viscosity. There is also an additional, positive operator E.
In other words the limit system in that case is
(NSE
ν,E
)
∂
t
u − ν∆
h
u + Eu + Q(u, u)=0
div u =0
u
|t=0
= u
0
.
The well-posedness result will be useful in the next chapter. Before stating and
proving that result, we need some additional notation. We define
H
0,1
def
=
'
f ∈ L
2
(Ω),∂
3
f ∈ L
2
(Ω)
(
and
f
2
H
0,1
= f
2
L
2
+ ∂
3
f
2
L
2
.
Moreover we denote by H
0
the space of divergence-free vector fields with a
vanishing horizontal mean.
Finally we shall need the notion of admissible classes of periodic boxes.
Definition 6.2 We say that T
3
satisfies condition (A) if one of the
following conditions is satisfied:
• the following implication holds:
(R) k ∈K
σ
n
⇒ k
3
n
3
=0;
• condition (R) does not hold and a
i
/a
j
∈ Q for all (i, j) ∈{1, 2, 3}
2
;
• condition (R) does not hold and there are i = j, i = k, j = k such
that a
2
i
/a
2
j
∈ Q and a
2
j
/a
2
k
is not algebraic of degree 4.