Global well-posedness and inviscid limits of the generalized Oldroyd type models

Abstract

We obtain the global small solutions to the generalized Oldroyd-B model without damping on the stress tensor in $\mathbb{R}^n$. Our result give positive answers partially to the question proposed by Elgindi and Liu (Remark 2 in Elgindi and Liu [J Differ Equ 259:1958--1966, 2015)]. The proof relies heavily on the trick of transferring dissipation from $u$ to $\tau$, and a new commutator estimate which may be of interest for future works. Moreover, we prove a global result of inviscid limit of two dimensional Oldroyd type models in the Sobolev spaces. The convergence rate is also obtained simultaneously.