Solenoidal Lipschitz truncation for parabolic PDE's

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We consider functions u∈ L∞(L²)∩ Lᵖ(W¹,ᵖ) with 1<p<∞ on a time space domain. Solutions to non-linear evolutionary PDE's typically belong to these spaces. Many applications require a Lipschitz approximation uλ of u which coincides with u on a large set. For problems arising in fluid mechanics one needs to work with solenoidal (divergence-free) functions. Thus, we construct a Lipschitz approximation, which is also solenoidal. As an application we revise the existence proof for non-stationary generalized Newtonian fluids in [DRW10]. Since div uλ=0, we are able to work in the pressure free formulation, which heavily simplifies the proof. We also provide a simplified approach to the stationary solenoidal Lipschitz truncation of [BDF12].