Global existence and exponential decay of strong solutions for the inhomogeneous incompressible Navier–Stokes equations with vacuum

Abstract

The inhomogeneous incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with fractional Laplacian dissipations in the multi-dimensional whole space are considered. The existence and uniqueness of global strong solution with vacuum are established for large initial data. The exponential decay-in-time of the strong solution is also obtained, which is different from the homogeneous case. The initial density may have vacuum and even compact support.