CALCULUS OF VARIATIONS AND PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
Abstract
We prove that the hydrodynamic pressure p associated to the velocity u is an element of C-theta(omega), theta is an element of (0, 1), of an inviscid incompressible fluid in a bounded and simply connected domain omega subset of R-d with C2+ boundary satisfies p is an element of C-theta (omega) for theta <= 1/2 and p is an element of C-1,C-2 theta-1(omega) for theta > 1/2 . Moreover, when & part;omega is an element of C3+, we prove that an almost double Holder regularity p is an element of C2 theta-(omega) holds even for theta < 1/2. This extends and improves the recent result of Bardos and Titi (Philos Trans R Soc A, 2022) obtained in the planar case to every dimension d >= 2 and it also doubles the pressure regularity. Differently from Bardos and Titi (2022), we do not introduce a new boundary condition for the pressure, but instead work with the natural one. In the boundary free case of the d-dimensional torus, we show that the double regularity of the pressure can be actually achieved under the weaker assumption that the divergence of the velocity is sufficiently regular, thus not necessarily zero.