An elliptic problem of the Prandtl-Batchelor type with a singularity

Abstract

We establish the existence of at least two solutions of the {\it Prandtl-Batchelor} like elliptic problem driven by a power nonlinearity and a singular term. The associated energy functional is nondifferentiable and hence the usual variational techniques do not work. We shall use a novel approach in tackling the associated energy functional by a sequence of $C^1$ functionals and a {\it cutoff function}. Our main tools are fundamental elliptic regularity theory and the mountain pass theorem.