Absence of anomalous dissipation for vortex sheets

Authors

Elgindi, TM; Lopes Filho, MC; Nussenzveig Lopes, HJ

Abstract

A family of solutions of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations is said to present anomalous dissipation if energy dissipation due to viscosity does not vanish in the limit of small viscosity. In this article we present a proof of absence of anomalous dissipation for 2D flows on the torus, with an arbitrary non-negative measure plus an integrable function as initial vorticity and square-integrable initial velocity. Our result applies to flows with forcing and provides an explicit estimate for the dissipation at small viscosity. The proof relies on a new refinement of a classical inequality due to J. Nash.

Citation

Elgindi, T. M., M. C. Lopes Filho, and H. J. Nussenzveig Lopes. “Absence of anomalous dissipation for vortex sheets.” Journal of Functional Analysis 290, no. 6 (March 15, 2026). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfa.2025.111304.
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