On the global stability of large Fourier mode for 3-D Navier-Stokes equations

In this paper, we first prove the global existence of strong solutions to 3-D incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with solenoidal initial data, which writes in the cylindrical coordinates is of the form: A(r, z) cos N theta + B(r, z) sin N theta, provided that N is large enough. In particular, we prove that the corresponding solution has almost the same frequency N for any positive time. The main idea of the proof is first to write the solution in trigonometrical series in theta variable and estimate the coefficients separately in some scale-invariant spaces, then we handle a sort of weighted sum of these norms of the coefficients in order to close the a priori estimate of the solution. Furthermore, we shall extend the above well-posedness result for initial data which is a linear combination of axisymmetric data without swirl and infinitely many large mode trigonometric series in the angular variable. (c) 2023 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.