Copyright © 2011 Jaiok Roh. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

Concerning the nonstationary Navier-Stokes flow with a nonzero constant velocity at infinity, the temporal stability has been studied by Heywood (1970, 1972) and Masuda (1975) in space and by Shibata (1999) and Enomoto-Shibata (2005) in spaces for . However, their results did not include enough information to find the spatial decay. So, Bae-Roh (2010) improved Enomoto-Shibata's results in some sense and estimated the spatial decay even though their results are limited. In this paper, we will prove temporal decay with a weighted function by using decay estimates obtained by Roh (2011). Bae-Roh (2010) proved the temporal rate becomes slower by if a weighted function is for . In this paper, we prove that the temporal decay becomes slower by where if a weighted function is . For the proof, we deduce an integral representation of the solution and then establish the temporal decay estimates of weighted -norm of solutions. This method was first initiated by He and Xin (2000) and developed by Bae and Jin (2006, 2007, 2008).