Remarks on the inviscid limit for the Navier-Stokes equations for uniformly bounded velocity fields

Abstract

We consider the vanishing viscosity limit of the Navier-Stokes equations in a half space, with Dirichlet boundary conditions. We prove that the inviscid limit holds in the energy norm if the product of the components of the Navier-Stokes solutions are equicontinuous at $x_2=0$. A sufficient condition for this to hold is that the tangential Navier-Stokes velocity remains uniformly bounded and has a uniformly integrable tangential gradient near the boundary.

We thank Gung-Min Gie and Jim Kelliher for many useful comments about the paper, which are incorporated in this new version