MAXIMAL ATTRACTORS FOR THE COMPRESSIBLE NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS OF VISCOUS AND HEAT CONDUCTIVE FLUID

This article is concerned with the existence of maximal attractors in Hi(i=1,2,4) for the compressible Navier-Stokes equations for a polytropic viscous heat conduc-tive ideal gas in bounded annular domains Ωn in Rn(n =2,3).One of the important features is that the metric spaces H(1),H(2),and H(4) we work with are three incomplete metric spaces,as can be seen from the constraints θ0 and u0,with θ and u being absolute temperature and specific volume respectively.For any constants δ1,δ2,···,δ8 verifying some conditions,a sequence of closed subspaces Hδ(i)H(i)(i = 1,2,4) is found,and the existence of maximal(universal) attractors in Hδ(i)(i = 1,2,4) is established.