Abstract and Applied Analysis
Volume 2005 (2005), Issue 7, Pages 757-766
doi:10.1155/AAA.2005.757

The Cauchy problem and decay rates for strong solutions of a Boussinesq system

Francisco Guillén González1 , Márcio Santos da Rocha2 and Marko Rojas Medar3

1Universidad de Sevilla, Facultad deMatemáticas, Sevilla 41012, Spain
2DM-CCE-UEL, Londrina, PR, Brazil
3DMA-IMECC-UNICAMP, CP 6065, Campinas 13083-970, SP, Brazil

Abstract

The Boussinesq equations describe the motion of an incompressible viscous fluid subject to convective heat transfer. Decay rates of derivatives of solutions of the three-dimension-al Cauchy problem for a Boussinesq system are studied in this work.