Anisotropic Navier-Stokes equations in a bounded cylindrical domain

Abstract

We study the global and local existence and uniqueness of solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations with anisotropic viscosity in a bounded cylindrical domain $Q=\Omega\times (0,1)$, where $\Omega$ is a star-shaped domain in $R^2$. In this paper, we consider the case of homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions on the lateral boundary and vanishing normal trace on the top and the bottom.