Vanishing viscosity limit for Navier–Stokes equations with general viscosity to Euler equations

In this paper, we study vanishing viscosity limit of 1-D isentropic compressible Navier–Stokes equations with general viscosity to isentropic Euler equations. Firstly, we improve estimates of the entropy flux, then we obtain that the weak solution of the isentropic Euler equations is the inviscid limit of the isentropic compressible Navier–Stokes equations with general viscosity using the compensated compactness frame recently established by G.-Q. Chen and M. Perepelitsa.     

Zero-viscosity-capillarity limit to the planar rarefaction wave for the 2D compressible Navier–Stokes–Korteweg equations

We shall consider the two-dimensional (2D) isentropic Navier–Stokes–Korteweg equations which are used to model compressible fluids with internal capillarity. Formally, the 2D isentropic Navier–Stokes–Korteweg equations converge, as the viscosity and the capillarity vanish, to the corresponding 2D inviscid Euler equations, and we do justify this for the case that the corresponding 2D inviscid Euler equations admit a planar rarefaction wave solution. More precisely, it is proved that there exists a family of smooth solutions for the 2D isentropic compressible Navier–Stokes–Korteweg equations converging to the planar rarefaction wave solution with arbitrary strength for the 2D Euler equations. A uniform convergence rate is obtained in terms of the viscosity coefficient and the capillarity away from the initial time. The key ingredients of our proof are the re-scaling technique and energy estimate, in which we also introduce the hyperbolic wave to recover the physical viscosities and capillarity of the inviscid rarefaction wave profile.     

Vanishing electron mass limit in the bipolar Euler–Poisson system

The bipolar Euler–Poisson system in physics consists of the conservation laws for the electron and ion densities and their current densities, coupled with the Poisson equation for the electrostatic potential. The limit of vanishing ratio of the electron mass to the ion mass in the $n$-dimensional flat torus is proved in the case of well prepared initial data. The limiting system is composed of two separated equations, where the equation for electron is the incompressible Euler equation with damping, which means physically that the evolution for electrons and ions can be treated as separated motions in the small ratio case.     

The Navier–Stokes limit of the Boltzmann equation for bounded collision kernels

The present work establishes a Navier–Stokes limit for the Boltzmann equation considered over the infinite spatial domain R ³. Appropriately scaled families of DiPerna-Lions renormalized solutions are shown to have fluctuations whose limit points (in the w-L ¹ topology) are governed by Leray solutions of the limiting Navier–Stokes equations. This completes the arguments in Bardos-Golse-Levermore [Commun. Pure Appl. Math. 46(5), 667–753 (1993)] for the steady case, and in Lions-Masmoudi [Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 158(3), 173–193 (2001)] for the time-dependent case.Mathematics Subject Classification (2000) 35Q35, 35Q30, 82C40     

Higher derivatives estimate for the 3D Navier–Stokes equation

In this article, a nonlinear family of spaces, based on the energy dissipation, is introduced. This family bridges an energy space (containing weak solutions to Navier–Stokes equation) to a critical space (invariant through the canonical scaling of the Navier–Stokes equation). This family is used to get uniform estimates on higher derivatives to solutions to the 3D Navier–Stokes equations. Those estimates are uniform, up to the possible blowing-up time. The proof uses blow-up techniques. Estimates can be obtained by this means thanks to the galilean invariance of the transport part of the equation.     

Blowup criteria for strong solutions to the compressible Navier–Stokes equations with variable viscosity

For the compressible Navier–Stokes equations with viscosity and heat conductivity coefficients possibly depending on the density or temperature, several blowup criteria are given to the local-in-time strong solutions. The proof is based on energy methods together with elliptic and parabolic estimates adopted to the present situation.     

Vanishing viscosity limit of short wave–long wave interactions in planar magnetohydrodynamics

We study several mathematical aspects of a system of equations modelling the interaction between short waves, described by a nonlinear Schrödinger equation, and long waves, described by the equations of magnetohydrodynamics for a compressible, heat conductive fluid. The system in question models an aurora-type phenomenon, where a short wave propagates along the streamlines of a magnetohydrodynamic medium. We focus on the one dimensional (planar) version of the model and address the problem of well posedness as well as convergence of the sequence of solutions as the bulk viscosity tends to zero together with some other interaction parameters, to a solution of the limit decoupled system involving the compressible Euler equations and a nonlinear Schrödinger equation. The vanishing viscosity limit serves to justify the SW–LW interactions in the limit equations as, in this setting, the SW–LW interactions cannot be defined in a straightforward way, due to the possible occurrence of vacuum.     

The vanishing viscosity limit for a 2D Cahn–Hilliard–Navier–Stokes system with a slip boundary condition

This paper studies the vanishing viscosity limit for the 2D Cahn–Hilliard–Navier–Stokes system in a bounded domain with a slip boundary condition. The result is proved globally in time.     

The incompressible Navier–Stokes limit of the Boltzmann equation for hard cutoff potentials

The present paper proves that all limit points of sequences of renormalized solutions of the Boltzmann equation in the limit of small, asymptotically equivalent Mach and Knudsen numbers are governed by Leray solutions of the Navier–Stokes equations. This convergence result holds for hard cutoff potentials in the sense of H. Grad, and therefore completes earlier results by the same authors [Invent. Math. 155 (2004) 81–161] for Maxwell molecules.     

Convergence to the superposition of rarefaction waves and contact discontinuity for the 1-D compressible Navier–Stokes–Korteweg system

This paper is concerned with the vanishing capillarity–viscosity limit for the one-dimensional compressible Navier–Stokes–Korteweg system to the Riemann solution of the Euler system that consists of the supposition of two rarefaction waves and a contact discontinuity. It is shown that there exists a family of smooth solutions to the compressible Navier–Stokes–Korteweg system which converge to the Riemann solution away from the initial time t=0$t=0$ and the contact discontinuity located at x=0$x=0$, as the coefficients of capillarity, viscosity and heat conductivity tend to zero. Moreover, a uniform convergence rate in terms of the above physical parameters is also obtained. Here, the strengths of both the rarefaction waves and the contact discontinuity are not required to be small.     

Compressible Navier–Stokes approximation to the Boltzmann equation

Even though the system of the compressible Navier–Stokes equations is not a limiting system of the Boltzmann equation when the Knudsen number tends to zero, it is the second order approximation by applying the Chapman–Enskog expansion. The purpose of this paper is to justify this approximation rigorously in mathematics. That is, if the difference between the initial data for the compressible Navier–Stokes equations and the Boltzmann equation is of the second order of the Knudsen number, so is the difference between two solutions for all time. The analysis is based on a refined energy method for a fluid-type system using the techniques for the system of viscous conservation laws.     

Stabilization and stability for the spherically symmetric Navier–Stokes–Poisson system

We consider global behaviour of viscous compressible flows with spherical symmetry driven by gravitation and an outer pressure, outside a hard core. For a general state function $p=p\left(\rho \right)$, we present global-in-time bounds for solutions with arbitrarily large data. For non-decreasing $p$, the $\omega$-limit set for the density $\rho$ is studied. For increasing $p$, uniqueness and static stability of the stationary solutions (including variational aspects) are investigated. Moreover, stabilization rate bounds toward the statically stable solutions are given and their nonlinear dynamical stability is shown.     

On the p-adic Navier–Stokes equation

ABSTRACT

We prove the local solvability of the p-adic analog of the Navier–Stokes equation. This equation describes, within the p-adic model of porous medium, the flow of a fluid in capillaries.     

Unilateral problem for the Navier–Stokes operators with variable viscosity in noncylindrical domain

We study a unilateral problem for the operator L perturbed of Navier–Stokes operator in a noncylindrical case, where

Lu=u^′-(_ν0+_ν1∥u(t)∥²)Δu+(u.∇)u-f+∇p.$\mathit{Lu}=u^{\prime }-({\nu }_0+{\nu }_1\parallel u(t){\parallel }^2)\mathrm{\Delta }u+(u.\nabla )u-f+\nabla p\text{.}$

Blowup of solutions for the compressible Navier–Stokes equations with density-dependent viscosity coefficients

We study the blowup phenomena of solutions to the compressible Navier–Stokes equations with density-dependent viscosity coefficients in arbitrary dimensions. By constructing a family of self-similar analytical solutions with spherical symmetry, some interesting information including the blowup and expanding properties are shown. In addition, the case of constant viscosity coefficients is also considered. The approach is based on the phase plane method.