Global stability of combination of a viscous contact wave with rarefaction waves for the compressible fluid models of Korteweg type. (4th January 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Chen, Zhengzheng; Sheng, Mengdi
• Is Part Of: Nonlinearity. Volume 32:Number 2(2019)
• Page Start: 395
• Page End: 444
• Publication Date: 2019-01-04
• Subjects: compressible Korteweg model -- viscous contact wave -- rarefaction waves -- global stability -- large initial perturbation; 35Q35 -- 35L65 -- 35B40; Nonlinear theories -- Periodicals; Mathematical analysis -- Periodicals; Mathematical analysis; Nonlinear theories; Periodicals; 515
• DOI: 10.1088/1361-6544/aaea89
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0951-7715

Abstract

Abstract: This paper is concerned with the large-time behavior of solutions to the Cauchy problem of the one-dimensional compressible fluid models of Korteweg type with density- and temperature-dependent viscosity, capillarity, and heat conductivity coefficients, which models the motions of compressible viscous fluids with internal capillarity. We show that the combination of a viscous contact wave with two rarefaction waves is asymptotically stable with a large initial perturbation if the strength of the composite wave and the capillarity coefficient satisfy some smallness conditions. The proof is based on some refined L 2 -energy estimates to control the possible growth of the solutions caused by the high nonlinearity of the system, the interactions of waves from different families and large data, and the key ingredient is to derive the uniform positive lower and upper bounds on the specific volume and the temperature.