Existence and Uniqueness of Maximal Solutions to SPDEs with Applications to Viscous Fluid Equations

Abstract

We present two criteria to conclude that a stochastic partial differential equation (SPDE) posseses a unique maximal strong solution. This paper provides the full details of the abstract well-posedness results first given in [25], and partners the paper [27] which rigorously addresses applications to the 3D SALT (Stochastic Advection by Lie Transport, [30]) Navier-Stokes Equation in velocity and vorticity form, on the torus and the bounded domain respectively. Each criterion has its corresponding set of assumptions and can be applied to viscous fluid equations with additive, multiplicative or a general transport type noise.