The vorticity equations in a half plane with measures as initial data

Abstract

We consider the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations subject to the Dirichlet boundary condition in a half plane for initial vorticity with finite measures. We study local well-posedness of the associated vorticity equations for measures with a small pure point part and global well-posedness for measures with a small total variation. Our construction is based on an $L^1$-estimate of a solution operator for the vorticity equations associated with the Stokes equations.