A Kato-type criterion for vanishing viscosity near the Onsager's critical regularity

Abstract

We consider a vanishing viscosity sequence of weak solutions of the three-dimensional Navier--Stokes equations on a bounded domain. In a seminal paper [25] Kato showed that for sufficiently regular solutions, the vanishing viscosity limit is equivalent to having vanishing viscous dissipation in a boundary layer of width proportional to the viscosity. We prove that Kato's criterion holds for H\"older continuous solutions with the regularity index arbitrarily close to the Onsager's critical exponent through a new boundary layer foliation and a global mollification.