Röckner and Zhang in [31] proved the existence of a unique strong solution to a stochastic tamed 3D Navier-Stokes equation in the whole space and for the periodic boundary case using a result from [36]. In the latter case, they also proved the existence of an invariant measure. In this paper, we improve their results (but for a slightly simplified system) using a self-contained approach. In particular, we generalise their result about an estimate on the L 4 -norm of the solution from the torus to R 3 , see Lemma 5.1 and thus establish the existence of an invariant measure on R 3 for a time-homogeneous damped tamed 3D Navier-Stokes equation, given by (6.1). (2010). Primary 60H15; Secondary 35R60, 35Q30, 76D05.
Mathematics Subject ClassificationKeywords. Stochastic tamed Navier-Stokes equations, stochastic damped Navier-Stokes equations, invariant measures. 1 i.e. the equation is satisfied in the weak sense and the solution u belongs to the space L ∞ (0, T ; H) ∩ L 2 (0, T ; V) ∩ L β+1 (0, T ; L β+1 ). 2 A pair of function (u, p) is a strong solution iff it is a weak solution and u ∈ L ∞ (0, T ; V) ∩ L 2 (0, T ; H 2 ) ∩ L ∞ (0, T ; L β+1 ).