A note on the vanishing viscosity limit in the Yudovich class

Abstract

We consider the inviscid limit for the two-dimensional Navier--Stokes equations in the class of integrable and bounded vorticity fields. It is expected that the difference between the Navier--Stokes and Euler velocity fields vanishes in $L^2$ with an order proportional to the square root of the viscosity constant $\nu$. Here, we provide an order $\left(\nu/|\log\nu|\right)^{\frac12\exp(-Ct)}$ bound, which slightly improves upon earlier results by Chemin.