Global Regularity of the 3D Axi-symmetric Navier-Stokes Equations with Anisotropic Data

Thomas Y. Hou, Zhen Lei, Congming Li

Published 2009-01-22, updated 2009-01-24Version 2

In this paper, we study the 3D axi-symmetric Navier-Stokes Equations with swirl. We prove the global regularity of the 3D Navier-Stokes equations for a family of large anisotropic initial data. Moreover, we obtain a global bound of the solution in terms of its initial data in some $L^p$ norm. Our results also reveal some interesting dynamic growth behavior of the solution due to the interaction between the angular velocity and the angular vorticity fields.