Estimates for stress concentration between two adjacent rigid inclusions in Stokes flow

Abstract

In this paper, we establish the estimates for the gradient and the second-order partial derivatives for the Stokes flow in the presence of two closely located strictly convex inclusions in dimension three. Moreover, the blow-up rate of the gradient is showed to be optimal by a pointwise upper bound and a lower bound in the narrowest region. We also show the optimal blow-up rate of Cauchy stress tensor. In dimensions greater than three, the upper bounds of the gradient are established. These results answer the questions raised in [25].