Well-posedness and exponential stability of the inhomogeneous anisotropic incompressible Navier-Stokes equation with far-field vacuum in two-dimensional whole space

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the well-posedness theory and exponential stability for the inhomogeneous incompressible Navier-Stokes equation with only horizontal dissipative structure. Due to the lack of the vertical dissipative term and appearance of vacuum, it is a highly challenging tricky problem for us to study the well-posedness, stability and large-time behavior problems in two-dimensional whole space. The local-in-time well-posedness theory is successfully established at first because we develop some good estimates for the density and vorticity to control the nonlinear term. Finally, these good estimates of density and vorticity help us to establish the global-in-time well-posedness and exponential stability if the initial velocity is suitable small.