Existence of regular time-periodic solution to shear-thinning fluids

Abstract

In this note we investigate the existence of time-periodic solutions to the $p$-Navier-Stokes system in the singular case of $p\in (1, 2)$, that describes the flows of an incompressible shear-thinning fluid. In the $3D$ space-periodic setting and for $p \in [ \frac{5}{3} , 2)$ we prove the existence of a regular time-periodic solution corresponding to a time periodic force data which is assumed small in a suitable sense. As a particular case we obtain `regular' steady solutions.