On a set of some recent contributions to energy equality for the Navier-Stokes equations

Abstract

In these notes we want, in addition to presenting some new results, to both clean up and refine some reflections on a couple of articles published on paper a few years ago, 2019-20. These papers concerned integral sufficient conditions on $u\,,$ $\n u\,,$ and mixed, to guarantee the equality of the energy, EE in the sequel, for solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations under the classical non-slip boundary condition. Concerning the $\n u$ case a crucial role was enjoyed by a previous well known Berselli and Chiodaroli's pioneering 2019 work on the subject. The above three papers are the main sources of these notes. References will be mostly concentrated on their direct relation to the above papers at the time of pubblication. More recent results will be not stated throughout the article. However, in the last section, the reader will be suitably sent to the more recent bibliography. Below, we also turn back to the innovative interpretation of some main parameters which allowed to overcome their apparent incongruence. Non-Newtonian fluids were also considered in our 2019 paper, maybe for the first time in the above Berselli-Chiodaroli's particular $\n u\,$ context. However we will stick mostly to the Newtonian case since in the end we come to the conclusion that there are not particular additional obstacles to extend the present results from Newtonian to non-Newtonian fluids. Hence we avoid to go further in this direction.