Structure of Helicity and Global Solutions of Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equation

Zhen Lei, Fang-Hua Lin, Yi Zhou

Published 2015-05-01Version 1

In this paper we derive a new energy identity for the three-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations by a special structure of helicity. The new energy functional is critical with respect to the natural scalings of the Navier-Stokes equations. Moreover, it is conditionally coercive. As an application we construct a family of finite energy smooth solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations whose critical norms can be arbitrarily large.