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The second-grade fluid equations are a model for viscoelastic fluids, with two parameters: α > 0, corresponding to the elastic response, and \({\nu > 0}\), corresponding to viscosity. Formally setting these parameters to 0 reduces the equations to the incompressible Euler equations of ideal fluid flow. In this article we study the limits \({\alpha, \nu \to 0}\) of solutions of the second-grade fluid system, in a smooth, bounded, two-dimensional domain with no-slip boundary conditions. This class of problems interpolates between the Euler-α model (\({\nu = 0}\)), for which the authors recently proved convergence to the solution of the incompressible Euler equations, and the Navier-Stokes case (α = 0), for which the vanishing viscosity limit is an important open problem. We prove three results. First, we establish convergence of the solutions of the second-grade model to those of the Euler equations provided \({\nu = \mathcal{O}(\alpha^2)}\), as α → 0, extending the main result in (Lopes Filho et al., Physica D 292(293):51–61, 2015). Second, we prove equivalence between convergence (of the second-grade fluid equations to the Euler equations) and vanishing of the energy dissipation in a suitably thin region near the boundary, in the asymptotic regime \({\nu = \mathcal{O}(\alpha^{6/5})}\), \({\nu/\alpha^{2} \to \infty}\) as α → 0. This amounts to a convergence criterion similar to the well-known Kato criterion for the vanishing viscosity limit of the Navier-Stokes equations to the Euler equations. Finally, we obtain an extension of Kato’s classical criterion to the second-grade fluid model, valid if \({\alpha = \mathcal{O}(\nu^{3/2})}\), as \({\nu \to 0}\). The proof of all these results relies on energy estimates and boundary correctors, following the original idea by Kato.
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Lopes Filho, M.C., Nussenzveig Lopes, H.J., Titi, E.S. et al. Approximation of 2D Euler Equations by the Second-Grade Fluid Equations with Dirichlet Boundary Conditions. J. Math. Fluid Mech. 17, 327–340 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00021-015-0207-8
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