On the Navier-Stokes Equations for Exothermically Reacting Compressible Fluids

Abstract We analyze mathematical models governing planar flow of chemical reaction from unburnt gasesto burnt gases in certain physical regimes in which diffusive effects such as viscosity and heat conduction aresignificant. These models can be then formulated as the Navier-Stokes equations for exothermically reactingcompressible fluids. We first establish the existence and dynamic behavior, including stability, regularity, andlarge-time behavior, of global discontinuous solutions of large oscillation to the Navier-Stokes equations withconstant adiabatic exponent γ and specific heat C_v. Our approach for the existence and regularity is to combinethe difference approximation techniques with the energy methods, total variation estimates, and weak conver-gence argumeots to deal with large jump discontinuities; and for large-time behavior is an a posteriori argumentdirectly from the weak form of the equations. The approach and ideas we develop here can be applied to solvinga more complicated model where γ

On the Navier-Stokes Equations for Exothernlically Reacting Compressible Fluids