Analyticity of the semigroup generated by the operator of a viscous compressible fluid

The linearized initial‐boundary value problem describing small motions of the viscous, barotropic compressible fluid in a bounded vessel is studied under various boundary conditions (Dirichlet, Neumann and intermediate). It is shown that the corresponding operator generates an analytic semigroup in the space L₂. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.