On the convective Brinkman-Forchheimer equations

Abstract

The convective Brinkman--Forchheimer equations or the Navier--Stokes equations with damping in bounded or periodic domains $\subset\mathbb{R}^d$, $2\leq d\leq 4$ are considered in this work. The existence and uniqueness of a global weak solution in the Leray-Hopf sense satisfying the energy equality to the system: $$\partial_t\boldsymbol{u}-\mu \Delta\boldsymbol{u}+(\boldsymbol{u}\cdot\nabla)\boldsymbol{u}+\alpha\boldsymbol{u}+\beta|\boldsymbol{u}|^{r-1}\boldsymbol{u}+\nabla p=\boldsymbol{f},\ \nabla\cdot\boldsymbol{u}=0,$$ (for all values of $\beta>0$ and $\mu>0$, whenever the absorption exponent $r>3$ and $2\beta\mu \geq 1$, for the critical case $r=3$) is proved. We exploit the monotonicity as well as the demicontinuity properties of the linear and nonlinear operators and the Minty-Browder technique in the proofs. Finally, we discuss the existence of global-in-time strong solutions to such systems in periodic domains.