Regularity Criterion to the axially symmetric Navier-Stokes Equations

Abstract

Smooth solutions to the axially symmetric Navier-Stokes equations obey the following maximum principle:$\|ru_\theta(r,z,t)\|_{L^\infty}\leq\|ru_\theta(r,z,0)\|_{L^\infty}.$ We first prove the global regularity of solutions if $\|ru_\theta(r,z,0)\|_{L^\infty}$ or $ \|ru_\theta(r,z,t)\|_{L^\infty(r\leq r_0)}$ is small compared with certain dimensionless quantity of the initial data. This result improves the one in Zhen Lei and Qi S. Zhang \cite{1}. As a corollary, we also prove the global regularity under the assumption that $|ru_\theta(r,z,t)|\leq\ |\ln r|^{-3/2},\ \ \forall\ 0<r\leq\delta_0\in(0,1/2).$