On the long-time behavior for a damped Navier-Stokes-Bardina model

Abstract

<p style='text-indent:20px;'>We consider a damped Navier-Stokes-Bardina model posed on the whole three-dimensional space. These equations write down as the well-know Navier-Stokes equations with an additional nonlocal operator in the nonlinear transport term, and moreover, with an additional damping term depending on a parameter <inline-formula><tex-math id="M1">\begin{document}$ \beta&gt;0 $\end{document}</tex-math></inline-formula>. First, we study the existence and <i>uniqueness</i> of global in time weak solutions in the <i>energy space</i>. Thereafter, our main objective is to describe the <i>long time behavior</i> of these solutions. For this, we use some tools in the theory of dynamical systems to prove the existence of a <i>global attractor</i>, which is <i>compact subset</i> in the energy space attracting all the weak solutions when the time goes to infinity. Moreover, we derive an upper bound for the <i>fractal dimension</i> of the global attractor associated to these equations.</p><p style='text-indent:20px;'>Finally, we find a range of values for the damping parameter <inline-formula><tex-math id="M2">\begin{document}$ \beta&gt;0 $\end{document}</tex-math></inline-formula>, for which we are able to give an acute description of the internal structure of the global attractor. More precisely, we prove that in some cases the global attractor only contains the stationary (time-independent) solution of the damped Navier-Stokes-Bardina equations.</p>