Vanishing viscosity limit for the 3D magnetohydrodynamic system with a slip boundary condition

This work investigates the solvability, regularity and vanishing viscosity limit of the 3D viscous magnetohydrodynamic system in a class of bounded domains with a slip boundary condition.     

A complex-analytic approach to the problem of uniform controllability of a transport equation in the vanishing viscosity limit

We revisit a result by Coron and Guerrero stating that the one-dimensional transport-diffusion equation

     

Zero dissipation limit to strong contact discontinuity for the 1-D compressible Navier-Stokes equations

In this paper, we study the zero dissipation limit problem for the one-dimensional compressible Navier-Stokes equations. We prove that if the solution of the inviscid Euler equations is piecewise constants with a contact discontinuity, then there exist smooth solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations which converge to the inviscid solution away from the contact discontinuity at a rate of as the heat-conductivity coefficient κ tends to zero, provided that the viscosity μ is of higher order than the heat-conductivity κ. Without loss of generality, we set μ≡0. Here we have no need to restrict the strength of the contact discontinuity to be small.     

Vanishing viscosity approximation to hyperbolic conservation laws

We study high order convergence of vanishing viscosity approximation to scalar hyperbolic conservation laws in one space dimension. We prove that, under suitable assumptions, in the region where the solution is smooth, the viscous solution admits an expansion in powers of the viscosity parameter ε. This allows an extrapolation procedure that yields high order approximation to the non-viscous limit as ε→0. Furthermore, an integral across a shock also admits a power expansion of ε, which allows us to construct high order approximation to the location of the shock. Numerical experiments are presented to justify our theoretical findings.     

Vanishing pressure limits of Riemann solutions to the isentropic relativistic Euler system for Chaplygin gas

The Riemann solutions to the isentropic relativistic Euler system for Chaplygin gas with a small parameter are considered. Unlike the polytropic or barotropic gas cases, we find that firstly, as the parameter decreases to a certain critical number, the two-shock solution converges to a delta shock wave solution of the same system. Moreover, as the parameter goes to zero, that is, the pressure vanishes, the solution is nothing but the delta shock wave solution to the zero-pressure relativistic Euler system. Meanwhile, the two-rarefaction wave solution tends to the vacuum solution to the zero-pressure relativistic system, and the solution containing one rarefaction wave and one shock wave tends to the contact discontinuity solution to the zero-pressure relativistic system as pressure vanishes.     

Vanishing viscosity solutions for conservation laws with regulated flux

In this paper we introduce a concept of “regulated function” $v(t,x)$ of two variables, which reduces to the classical definition when v is independent of t. We then consider a scalar conservation law of the form $u_t+F{(v(t,x),u)}_x=0$, where F is smooth and v is a regulated function, possibly discontinuous w.r.t. both t and x. By adding a small viscosity, one obtains a well posed parabolic equation. As the viscous term goes to zero, the uniqueness of the vanishing viscosity limit is proved, relying on comparison estimates for solutions to the corresponding Hamilton–Jacobi equation.As an application, we obtain the existence and uniqueness of solutions for a class of $2\times 2$ triangular systems of conservation laws with hyperbolic degeneracy.     

Remarks on one-dimensional Compressible Navier-Stokes equations with density-dependent viscosity and vacuum

The Navier-Stokes system for one-dimensional compressible fluids with density-dependent viscosities when the initial density connects to vacuum continuously is considered in the present paper. When the viscosity coefficient u is proportional to pθ with 0 〈 θ 〈 1, the global existence and the uniqueness of weak solutions are proved which improves the previous results in [Vong, S. W., Yang, T., Zhu, C. J.： Compressible Navier-Stokes equations with degenerate viscosity coefficient and vacuum II. J. Differential Equations, 192（2）, 475-501 （2003）]. Here p is the density. Moreover, a stabilization rate estimate for the density as t → ＋∞ for any θ 〉 0 is also given.     

Zero dissipation limit of the 1D linearized Navier-Stokes equations for a compressible fluid

In this paper we study the asymptotic limiting behavior of the solutions to the initial boundary value problem for linearized one-dimensional compressible Navier-Stokes equations. We consider the characteristic boundary conditions, that is we assume that an eigenvalue of the associated inviscid Euler system vanishes uniformly on the boundary. The aim of this paper is to understand the evolution of the boundary layer, to construct the asymptotic ansatz which is uniformly valid up to the boundary, and to obtain rigorously the uniform convergence to the solution of the Euler equations without the weakness assumption on the boundary layer.     

Remark on compressible Navier-Stokes equations with density-dependent viscosity and discontinuous initial data

In this paper, we study the free boundary problem for 1D compressible Navier-Stokes equations with density-dependent viscosity. We focus on the case where the viscosity coefficient vanishes on vacuum. We prove the global existence and uniqueness for discontinuous solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations when the initial density is a bounded variation function, and give a decay result for the density as t→+∞.     

Vacuum states on compressible Navier-Stokes equations with general density-dependent viscosity and general pressure law

In this paper,we study the one-dimensional motion of viscous gas with a general pres- sure law and a general density-dependent viscosity coefficient when the initial density connects to the vacuum state with a jump.We prove the global existence and the uniqueness of weak solutions to the compressible Navier-Stokes equations by using the line method.For this,some new a priori estimates are obtained to take care of the general viscosity coefficientμ(ρ)instead ofρ~θ.     

Inverse viscosity problem for the Navier-Stokes equation

We consider an inverse problem of determining a viscosity coefficient in the Navier-Stokes equation by observation data in a neighborhood of the boundary. We prove the Lipschitz stability by the Carleman estimates in Sobolev spaces of negative order.     

Global solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations for compressible flow with density-dependent viscosity and discontinuous initial data

In this paper, we study the evolutions of the interfaces between the gas and the vacuum for viscous one-dimensional isentropic gas motions. We prove the global existence and uniqueness for discontinuous solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations for compressible flow with density-dependent viscosity coefficient. Precisely, the viscosity coefficient μ is proportional to ρ^θ with 0<θ<1. Specifically, we require that the initial density be piecewise smooth with arbitrarily large jump discontinuities, bounded above and below away from zero, in the interior of gas. We show that the discontinuities in the density persist for all time, and give a decay result for the density as t→+∞.     

Discontinuous solutions of the compressible Navier-Stokes equations with degenerate viscosity coefficient and vacuum

In this paper, we study the evolutions of the interfaces between gas and the vacuum for one-dimensional viscous gas motions when the initial density connects to vacuum continuously. The degeneracy appears in the initial data and has effect on the viscosity coefficient because the coefficient is assumed to be a power function of the density. Using some new a priori estimates, we establish the new local (in time) existence and uniqueness results under minimal hypotheses on the initial density, so that the interval for the power of the density in the viscosity coefficient is enlarged to (0,γ). In particular, we include the important case that the initial density could be piecewise smooth with arbitrarily large jump discontinuities, and could degenerate to zero.     

Global behavior of spherically symmetric Navier-Stokes equations with density-dependent viscosity

In this paper, we study a free boundary problem for compressible spherically symmetric Navier-Stokes equations without a solid core. Under certain assumptions imposed on the initial data, we obtain the global existence and uniqueness of the weak solution, give some uniform bounds (with respect to time) of the solution and show that it converges to a stationary one as time tends to infinity. Moreover, we obtain the stabilization rate estimates of exponential type in L^∞-norm and weighted H¹-norm of the solution by constructing some Lyapunov functionals. The results show that such system is stable under the small perturbations, and could be applied to the astrophysics.     

Low Mach number limit for the non-isentropic Navier-Stokes equations

We study the low Mach number limit of the local in time solutions to the compressible Navier-Stokes equations with zero heat conductivity coefficient as the Mach number tends to zero. A uniform existence result for the one-dimensional initial-boundary value problem is proved provided that the initial data are “well-prepared” in the sense that the temporal derivatives up to order two are bounded initially.     

Global existence of strong solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations for isentropic compressible fluids with density-dependent viscosity

This paper is concerned with global strong solutions of the isentropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations with density-dependent viscosity coefficient in one-dimensional bounded intervals. Precisely, the viscosity coefficient μ=μ(ρ) and the pressure P is proportional to ργ with γ>1. The important point in this paper is that the initial density may vanish in an open subset. We also show that the strong solution obtained above is unique provided that the initial data satisfies additional regularity and a compatible condition. Compared with former results obtained by Hyunseok Kim in [H. Kim, Global existence of strong solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations for one-dimensional isentropic compressible fluids, available at: http://com2mac.postech.ac.kr/papers/2001/01-38.pdf], we deal with density-dependent viscosity coefficient.     

Zero Dissipation Limit to Rarefaction Waves for the 1-D Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations

The zero dissipation limit for the one-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations of compressible,isentropic gases in the case that the corresponding Euler equations have rarefaction wave solutions is investi...     

Vanishing viscosity limits and boundary layers for circularly symmetric 2D flows

We continue the work of Lopes Filho, Mazzucato and Nussenzveig Lopes [10] on the vanishing viscosity limit of circularly symmetric viscous flow in a disk with rotating boundary, shown there to converge to the inviscid limit in L ²-norm as long as the prescribed angular velocity α(t) of the boundary has bounded total variation. Here we establish convergence in stronger L ² and L ^p -Sobolev spaces, allow for more singular angular velocities α, and address the issue of analyzing the behavior of the boundary layer. This includes an analysis of concentration of vorticity in the vanishing viscosity limit. We also consider such flows on an annulus, whose two boundary components rotate independently. Supported in part by NSF grant DMS-0456861.