Decay and vanishing of some axially symmetric D-solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations

We study axially symmetric D-solutions of the 3 dimensional Navier-Stokes equations. The first result is an a priori decay estimate of the velocity for general domains. The second is an a priori decay estimate of the vorticity in \(\bR^3\), which improves the corresponding results in the literature. In addition, we prove a similar decay of full 3d solutions except for a small set of angles. Next we turn to D-solutions which are periodic in the third variable and prove vanishing result under a reasonable condition. As a corollary we prove that axially symmetric D-solutions in the slab \(\bR^2 \times I\) with suitable boundary condition is \(0\). Here \(I\) is any finite interval. To the best of our knowledge, this seems to be the first vanishing result on a 3 dimensional D-solution without extra integral or decay or smallness assumption on the solution. The tools used include Brezis-Gallouet inequality, dimension reduction, scaling, Green's function bound and Liouville theorems for Navier-Stokes equations.