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Keywords:
non-Newtonian fluids; weak solutions; interior regularity
Summary:
In this paper we consider weak solutions ${\bold u}: \Omega \rightarrow \Bbb R^d$ to the equations of stationary motion of a fluid with shear dependent viscosity in a bounded domain $\Omega \subset \Bbb R^d$ ($d=2$ or $d=3$). For the critical case $q=\frac{3d}{d+2}$ we prove the higher integrability of $\nabla {\bold u}$ which forms the basis for applying the method of differences in order to get fractional differentiability of $\nabla {\bold u}$. From this we show the existence of second order weak derivatives of $u$.
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