Dynamics and robustness for the 2D Navier–Stokes equations with multi-delays in Lipschitz-like domains

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the dynamics of the two-dimensional Navier–Stokes equations with multi-delays in a Lipschitz-like domain, subject to inhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. The regularity of global solutions and of pullback attractors, based on tempered universes, is established, extending the results of Yang, Wang, Yan and Miranville (Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. 41 (2021) 3343–3366). Furthermore, the robustness of pullback attractors when the delays, considered as small perturbations, disappear is also derived. The key technique in the proofs is the application of a retarded Gronwall inequality and a variable index for the tempered pullback dynamics, allowing to obtain uniform estimates and the compactness of the process.