About the regularized Navier--Stokes equations

Abstract

The first goal of this paper is to study the large time behavior of solutions to the Cauchy problem for the 3-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes system. The Marcinkiewicz space $L^{3,\infty}$ is used to prove some asymptotic stability results for solutions with infinite energy. Next, this approach is applied to the analysis of two classical ``regularized'' Navier-Stokes systems. The first one was introduced by J. Leray and consists in ``mollifying'' the nonlinearity. The second one was proposed by J.L. Lions, who added the artificial hyper-viscosity $(-\Delta)^{\ell/2}$, $\ell>2$, to the model. It is shown in the present paper that, in the whole space, solutions to those modified models converge as $t\to\infty$ toward solutions of the original Navier-Stokes system.