Solvability of the free boundary value problem of the navier-stokes equations

Abstract

In this paper, we study the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations on a moving domain in ℝ3 of finite depth, bounded above by the free surface and bounded below by a solid at bottom. We prove that there exists a unique, global-in-time solution to the problem provided that the initial velocity field and the initial profile of the boundary are suciently small in Sobolev spaces.