A blow-up criterion for compressible viscous heat-conductive flows

We study an initial boundary value problem for the three-dimensional Navier–Stokes equations of viscous heat-conductive fluids in a bounded smooth domain. We establish a blow-up criterion for the local strong solutions in terms of the temperature and the gradient of velocity only, similar to the Beale–Kato–Majda criterion for ideal incompressible flows.     

A blow-up criterion for two dimensional compressible viscous heat-conductive flows

We establish a blow-up criterion in terms of the upper bound of the density and temperature for the strong solution to 2D compressible viscous heat-conductive flows. The initial vacuum is allowed.     

A blow-up criterion for 3D compressible viscoelastic flow with large initial data

In this paper, we consider a Cauchy problem for the three-dimensional compressible viscoelastic flow with large initial data. We establish a blow-up criterion for the strong solutions in terms of the gradient of velocity only, which is similar to the Beale-Kato-Majda criterion for ideal incompressible flow (cf. Beale et al. (1984) [20]) and the blow-up criterion for the compressible Navier-Stokes equations (cf. Huang et al. (2011) [21]).     

A blow-up criterion for classical solutions to the compressible Navier-Stokes equations

In this paper, we obtain a blow-up criterion for classical solutions to the 3-D compressible Navier-Stokes equations just in terms of the gradient of the velocity, analogous to the Beal-Kato-Majda criterion for the ideal incompressible flow. In addition, the initial vacuum is allowed in our case.     

Global existence of solutions for one-dimensional compressible navier-stokes equations in the half space

We prove the existence of global solutions to the initial-boundary-value problem on the half space R＋ for a one-dimensional viscous ideal polytropic gas. Some suitable assumptions are made to guarantee the existence of smooth solutions. Employing the L2- energy estimate, we prove that the impermeable problem has a unique global solutionis.     

Stability of viscous contact wave for compressible navier-stokes system of general gas with free boundary

In this paper, we study the large time behavior of solutions to the nonisentropic Navier-Stokes equations of general gas, where polytropic gas is included as a special case, with a free boundary. First we construct a viscous contact wave which approximates to the contact discontinuity, which is a basic wave pattern of compressible Euler equation, in finite time as the heat conductivity tends to zero. Then we prove the viscous contact wave is asymptotic stable if the initial perturbations and the strength of the contact wave are small. This generalizes our previous result [6] which is only for polytropic gas.     

A jump discontinuity of compressible viscous flows grazing a non-convex corner

We show existence and regularity of solution for the compressible viscous steady state Navier–Stokes system on a polygon having a grazing corner and that the density has a jump discontinuity across a curve inside the domain. There are corresponding jumps in derivatives of the velocity. The solution comes from a well-posed boundary value problem on a polygonal domain with a non-convex corner. A formula for the decay of the jump is given. The decay formula suggests that density jumps can occur in a compressible flow with a non-vanishing viscosity.     

On the zero-velocity-limit solutions to the Navier–Stokes equations of compressible flow

We consider the zero-velocity stationary problem of the Navier–Stokes equations of compressible isentropic flow describing the distribution of the density ϱ of a fluid in a spatial domain Ω⊂ℝ ^N driven by a time-independent potential external force b=∇F. A sharp condition in terms of F is given for the problem to possess a unique nonnegative solution ϱ having a prescribed mass m > 0. Received: 20 October 1997     

A blow-up criterion for a 2D viscous liquid-gas two-phase flow model

In this paper, we prove a blow-up criterion in terms of the upper bound of the liquid mass for the strong solution to the two-dimensional (2D) viscous liquid-gas two-phase flow model in a smooth bounded domain. The result also applies to three-dimensional (3D) case.     

On an inhomogeneous slip-inflow boundary value problem for a steady flow of a viscous compressible fluid in a cylindrical domain

We investigate a steady flow of a viscous compressible fluid with inflow boundary condition on the density and inhomogeneous slip boundary conditions on the velocity in a cylindrical domain Ω=Ω₀×(0,L)∈R³. We show existence of a solution , p>3, where v is the velocity of the fluid and ρ is the density, that is a small perturbation of a constant flow (, ). We also show that this solution is unique in a class of small perturbations of . The term u⋅∇w in the continuity equation makes it impossible to show the existence applying directly a fixed point method. Thus in order to show existence of the solution we construct a sequence (vn,ρn) that is bounded in and satisfies the Cauchy condition in a larger space L_∞(0,L;L₂(Ω₀)) what enables us to deduce that the weak limit of a subsequence of (vn,ρn) is in fact a strong solution to our problem.     

Measure-valued solution for non-Newtonian compressible isothermal monopolar fluid

The global existence of measure-valued solutions of initial boundary-value problems in bounded domains to systems of partial differential equations for viscous non-Newtonian isothermal compressible monopolar fluid and the global existence of the weak solution for multipolar fluid is proved.     

A blow-up criterion for 3-D non-resistive compressible heat-conductive magnetohydrodynamic equations with initial vacuum

In this paper, we prove a blow-up criterion of strong solutions to the 3-D viscous and non-resistive magnetohydrodynamic equations for compressible heat-conducting flows with initial vacuum. This blow-up criterion depends only on the gradient of velocity and the temperature, which is similar to the one for compressible Navier-Stokes equations.     

CONVERGENCE RATES FOR THE COMPRESSIBLE NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS WITH GENERAL FORCES

For the viscous and heat-conductive fluids governed by the compressible Navier- Stokes equations with external force of general form in R^3, there exist nontrivial stationary solutions provided the external forces are small in suitable norms, which was studied in article [15], and there we also proved the global in time stability of the stationary solutions with respect to initial data in H^3-framework. In this article, the authors investigate the rates of convergence of nonstationary solutions to the corresponding stationary solutions when the initial data are small in H^3 and bounded in L6/5.     

Existence results for viscous polytropic fluids with vacuum

We consider the full Navier-Stokes equations for viscous polytropic fluids with nonnegative thermal conductivity. We prove the existence of unique local strong solutions for all initial data satisfying some compatibility condition. The initial density need not be positive and may vanish in an open set. Moreover our results hold for both bounded and unbounded domains.     

Steady compressible Navier-Stokes-Fourier system for monoatomic gas and its generalizations

We consider steady compressible Navier-Stokes-Fourier system for a gas with pressure p and internal energy e related by the constitutive law p=(γ−1)?e, γ>1. We show that for any there exists a variational entropy solution (i.e. solution satisfying the weak formulation of balance of mass and momentum, entropy inequality and global balance of total energy). This result includes the model for monoatomic gas (). If , these solutions also fulfill the weak formulation of the pointwise total energy balance.     

A new path to the non blow-up of incompressible flows

One of the most challenging questions in fluid dynamics is whether the three-dimensional (3D) incompressible Navier-Stokes, 3D Euler and two-dimensional Quasi-Geostrophic (2D QG) equations can develop a finite-time singularity from smooth initial data. Recently, from a numerical point of view, Luo & Hou presented a class of potentially singular solutions to the Euler equations in a fluid with solid boundary [1], [2]. Furthermore, in two recent papers [3], [4], Tao indicates a significant barrier to establishing global regularity for the 3D Euler and Navier-Stokes equations, in that any method for achieving this, must use the finer geometric structure of these equations. In this paper, we show that the singularity discovered by Luo & Hou which lies right on the boundary is not relevant in the case of the whole domain ${\mathbb{R}}^3$. We reveal also that the translation and rotation invariance present in the Euler, Navier-Stokes and 2D QG equations are the key for the non blow-up in finite time of the solutions. The translation and rotation invariance of these equations combined with the anisotropic structure of regions of high vorticity allowed to establish a new geometric non blow-up criterion which yield us to the non blow-up of the solutions in all the Kerr's numerical experiments and to show that the potential mechanism of blow-up introduced in [5] cannot lead to the blow-up in finite time of solutions of Euler equations.     

A free boundary problem for compressible hydrodynamic flow of liquid crystals in one dimension

In this paper, we consider the free boundary problem for a simplified version of Ericksen–Leslie equations modeling the compressible hydrodynamic flow of nematic liquid crystals in dimension one. We obtain both existence and uniqueness of global classical solutions provided that the initial density is away from vacuum.     

The propagation of sound in particle models of compressible fluids

Summary. The propagation of sound in compressible fluids is described by the acoustic equations that result from the linearization of the Euler equations around a state of constant mass density and velocity zero. In this article, it is shown that a stable and convergent discretization of the acoustic wave equation for the velocity field can be recovered from the particle model of compressible fluids recently developed by the author in [Numer. Math. (1997) 76: 111–142] by linearizing the equations of motion for the particles. For particles of proper shape, this discretization is second order accurate, and with an obvious modification of the basic particle model, one can even reach an arbitrarily high order of convergence. Received January 24, 2000 / Published online November 8, 2000     

A remark on the Beale-Kato-Majda criterion for the 3D MHD equations with zero kinematic viscosity

In this paper,we study the blow-up criterion of smooth solutions to the 3D magneto-hydrodynamic system in ˙ B 0 ∞,∞.We show that a smooth solution of the 3D MHD equations with zero kinematic viscosity in the whole space R 3 breaks down if and only if certain norm of the vorticity blows up at the same time.     

Analysis and finite element approximation of a Ladyzhenskaya model for viscous flow in streamfunction form

In this paper we consider a model for the motion of incompressible viscous flows proposed by Ladyzhenskaya. The Ladyzhenskaya model is written in terms of the velocity and pressure while the studied model is written in terms of the streamfunction only. We derived the streamfunction equation of the Ladyzhenskaya model and present a weak formulation and show that this formulation is equivalent to the velocity–pressure formulation. We also present some existence and uniqueness results for the model. Finite element approximation procedures are presented. The discrete problem is proposed to be well posed and stable. Some error estimates are derived. We consider the 2D driven cavity flow problem and provide graphs which illustrate differences between the approximation procedure presented here and the approximation for the streamfunction form of the Navier–Stokes equations. Streamfunction contours are also displayed showing the main features of the flow.