Compressible Navier-Stokes equations with density-dependent viscosity and vacuum

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)965-981
Journal / PublicationCommunications in Partial Differential Equations
Volume26
Issue number5-6
Publication statusPublished - 2001

Abstract

In this paper, we study the one-dimensional motion of viscous gas connecting to vacuum state with a jump in density when the viscosity depends on the density. Precisely, when the viscosity coefficient μ is proportional to ρθ and 0 <θ <1/2, where ρ is the density, the global existence and the uniqueness of weak solutions are proved. This improves the previous results by enlarging the interval of θ. Copyright © 2001 by Marcel Dekker, Inc.