Regularity Criteria of the Axisymmetric Navier-Stokes Equations

Abstract In this note we present results on the regularity criteria for the axisymmetric weak solutions of the three dimensional Navier-Stokes equations with nonzero swirl. In particular we find that the integrability of single component of vorticity or velocity fields, in terms of norms with zero scaling dimension give sufficient conditions for the regularity of weak solutions. To obtain these criteria we derive new a priori estimates for the axisymmetric smooth solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations.