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Shengguo Zhu

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arXiv2019

On the global-in-time inviscid limit of the 3D isentropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations with degenerate viscosities and vacuum

In the recent paper, the global-in-time inviscid limit of the three-dimensional (3D) isentropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations is considered. First, when viscosity coefficients are given as a constant multiple of density's power ($(ρ^ε)^δ$ with $δ>1$), for regular solutions to the corresponding Cauchy problem, via introducing one "quasi-symmetric hyperbolic"--"degenerate elliptic" coupled structure to control the behavior of the velocity near the vacuum, we establish the uniform energy estimates for the local sound speed in $H^3$ and $(ρ^ε)^{\frac{δ-1}{2}}$ in $H^2$ with respect to the viscosity coefficients for arbitrarily large time under some smallness assumption on the initial density. Second, by making full use of this structure's quasi-symmetric property and the weak smooth effect on solutions, we prove the strong convergence of the regular solutions of the degenerate viscous flow to that of the inviscid flow with vacuum in $H^2$ for arbitrarily large time. The result here applies to a class of degenerate density-dependent viscosity coefficients, is independent of the B-D relation for viscosities, and seems to be the first on the global-in-time inviscid limit of smooth solutions which have large velocities and contain vacuum state for compressible flow in three space dimensions without any symmetric assumption.

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arXiv2019

Vanishing Viscosity Limit of the Navier-Stokes Equations to the Euler Equations for Compressible Fluid Flow with Vacuum

We establish the vanishing viscosity limit of the Navier-Stokes equations to the Euler equations for three-dimensional compressible isentropic flow in the whole space. It is shown that there exists a unique regular solution of compressible Navier-Stokes equations with density-dependent viscosities, arbitrarily large initial data and vacuum, whose life span is uniformly positive in the vanishing viscosity limit. It is worth paying special attention that, via introducing a "quasi-symmetric hyperbolic"--"degenerate elliptic" coupled structure, we can also give some uniformly bounded estimates of $\displaystyle\Big(ρ^{\frac{γ-1}{2}}, u\Big)$ in $H^3$ space and $ρ^{\frac{δ-1}{2}}$ in $H^2$ space (adiabatic exponent $γ>1$ and $1<δ\leq \min\{3, γ\}$), which lead the strong convergence of the regular solution of the viscous flow to that of the inviscid flow in $L^{\infty}([0, T]; H^{s'})$ (for any $s'\in [2, 3)$) space with the rate of $ε^{2(1-s'/3)}$. Further more, we point out that our framework in this paper is applicable to other physical dimensions, say 1 and 2, with some minor modifications. This paper is based on our early preprint in 2015.

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arXiv2019

Global well-posedness of regular solutions to the three-dimensional isentropic compressible Navier-Stokes Equations with degenerate viscosities and vacuum

In this paper, the Cauchy problem for the three-dimensional (3-D) isentropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations with degenerate viscosities is considered. By introducing some new variables and making use of the "quasi-symmetric hyperbolic"-"degenerate elliptic" coupled structure to control the behavior of the fluid velocity, we prove the global-in-time well-posedness of regular solutions with vacuum for a class of smooth initial data that are of small density but possibly large velocities. Here the initial mass density is required to decay to zero in the far field, and the spectrum of the Jacobi matrix of the initial velocity are all positive. The result here applies to a class of degenerate density-dependent viscosity coefficients, is independent of the BD-entropy, and seems to be the first on the global existence of smooth solutions which have large velocities and contain vacuum state for such degenerate system in three space dimensions.

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arXiv2019

Well-posedness of three-dimensional isentropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations with degenerate viscosities and far field vacuum

In this paper, the Cauchy problem for the three-dimensional (3-D) isentropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations is considered. When viscosity coefficients are given as a constant multiple of the density's power ($ρ^δ$ with $0<δ<1$), based on some analysis of the nonlinear structure of this system, we identify the class of initial data admitting a local regular solution with far field vacuum and finite energy in some inhomogeneous Sobolev spaces by introducing some new variables and initial compatibility conditions, which solves an open problem of degenerate viscous flow partially mentioned by Bresh-Desjardins-Metivier [3], Jiu-Wang-Xin [11] and so on. Moreover, in contrast to the classical theory in the case of the constant viscosity, we show that one can not obtain any global regular solution whose $L^\infty$ norm of $u$ decays to zero as time $t$ goes to infinity.

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arXiv2019

Formation of singularities for the Relativistic Euler equations

This paper contributes to the study of large data problems for $C^1$ solutions of the relativistic Euler equations. In the $(1+1)$-dimensional spacetime setting, if the initial data are away from vacuum, a key difficulty in proving the global well-posedness or finite time blow-up is coming up with a way to obtain sharp enough control on the lower bound of the mass-energy density function $ρ$. First, for $C^1$ solutions of the 1-dimensional classical isentropic compressible Euler equations in the Eulerian setting, we show a novel idea of obtaining a mass density time-dependent lower bound by studying the difference of the two Riemann invariants, along with certain weighted gradients of them. Furthermore, using an elaborate argument on a certain ODE inequality and introducing some key artificial (new) quantities, we apply this idea to obtain the lower bound estimate for the mass-energy density of the (1+1)-dimensional relativistic Euler equations. Ultimately, for $C^1$ solutions with uniformly positive initial mass-energy density of the (1+1)-dimensional relativistic Euler equations, we give a necessary and sufficient condition for the formation of singularity in finite time, which gives a complete picture for the ($C^1$) large data problem in dimension $(1+1)$. Moreover, for the (3+1)-dimensional relativistic fluids, under the assumption that the initial mass-energy density vanishes in some open domain, we give two sufficient conditions for $C^1$ solutions to blow up in finite time, no matter how small the initial data are. We also do some interesting studies on the asymptotic behavior of the relativistic velocity when vacuum appears at the far field, which tells us that one can not obtain any global regular solution whose $L^\infty$ norm of $u$ decays to zero as time $t$ goes to infinity.

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arXiv2018

Blow-up criterion for the $3$D non-resistive compressible Magnetohydrodynamic equations

In this paper, we prove a blow-up criterion in terms of the magnetic field $H$ and the mass density $ρ$ for the strong solutions to the $3$D compressible isentropic MHD equations with zero magnetic diffusion and initial vacuum. More precisely, we show that the $L^\infty$ norms of $(H,ρ)$ control the possible blow-up (see \cite{olga}\cite{zx}) for strong solutions, which means that if a solution of the compressible isentropic non-resistive MHD equations is initially smooth and loses its regularity at some later time, then the formation of singularity must be caused by losing the bound of the $L^\infty$ norm of $H$ or $ρ$ as the critical time approaches.

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arXiv2016

Singularity formation for compressible Euler equations

It is well-known that shock will form in finite time for hyperbolic conservation laws from initial nonlinear compression no matter how small and smooth the data are. Classical results, including Lax [14], Liu [22], Li-Zhou-Kong [16], confirm that when initial data are small smooth perturbations near constant states, blowup in gradient of solutions occurs in finite time if and only if intial data contain any compression in some truly nonlinear characteristic field. A natural puzzle is that: Will this picture keep true for large data problem of physical systems such as compressible Euler equations? One of the key issues is how to find an effective way to obtain sharp enough control on density lower bound. For isentropic flow, we offer a complete picture on the finite time shock formation from smooth initial data away from vacuum, which is consistent with small data theory. For adiabatic flow, we show a striking observation that initial weak compressions do not necessarily develop singularity in finite time, in a sharp contrast to the small data theory. Furthermore, we find the critical strength of nonlinear compression, and prove that if the compression is stronger than this critical value, then singularity develops in finite time, and otherwise there are a class of initial data admitting global smooth solutions with maximum strength of compression equals to this critical value.

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arXiv2015

On classical solutions for viscous polytropic fluids with degenerate viscosities and vacuum

In this paper, we consider the three-dimensional isentropic Navier-Stokes equations for compressible fluids with viscosities depending on density in a power law and allowing initial vacuum. We introduce the notion of regular solutions and prove the local-in-time well-posedness of solutions with arbitrarily large initial data and vacuum in this class, which is a long-standing open problem due to the very high degeneracy caused by vacuum. Moreover, for certain classes of initial data with local vacuum, we show that the regular solution that we obtained will break down in finite time, no matter how small and smooth the initial data are.

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arXiv2015

Existence results for viscous polytropic fluids with degenerate viscosities and far field vacuum

In this paper, we considered the isentropic Navier-Stokes equations for compressible fluids with density-dependent viscosities in $\mathbb{R}^3$. These systems come from the Boltzmann equations through the Chapman-Enskog expansion to the second order, cf.\cite{tlt}, and are degenerate when vacuum appears. We firstly establish the existence of the unique local regular solution (see Definition \ref{d1} or \cite{sz3}) when the initial data are arbitrarily large with vacuum at least appearing in the far field. Moreover it is interesting to show that we could't obtain any global regular solution that the $L^\infty$ norm of $u$ decays to zero as time $t$ goes to infinity.

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arXiv2015

On classical solutions to 2D Shallow water equations with degenerate viscosities

In this paper, the $2$-D isentropic Navier-Stokes systems for compressible fluids with density-dependent viscosity coefficients are considered. In particular, we assume that the viscosity coefficients are proportional to density. These equations, including several models in $2$-D shallow water theory, are degenerate when vacuum appears. We introduce the notion of regular solutions and prove the local existence of solutions in this class allowing the initial vacuum in the far field. This solution is further shown to be stable with respect to initial data in $H^2$ sense. A Beal-Kato-Majda type blow-up criterion is also established.

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arXiv2015

No BV bounds for approximate solutions to p-system with general pressure law

For the p-system with large BV initial data, an assumption introduced in [3] by Bakhvalov guarantees the global existence of entropy weak solutions with uniformly bounded total variation. The present paper provides a partial converse to this result. Whenever Bakhvalov's condition does not hold, we show that there exist front tracking approximate solutions, with uniformly positive density, whose total variation becomes arbitrarily large. The construction extends the arguments in [4] to a general class of pressure laws.

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arXiv2014

Existence results and blow-up criterion of compressible radiation hydrodynamic equations

In this paper, we consider the $3$D compressible radiation hydrodynamic (RHD) equations with thermal conductivity in a bounded domain. The existence of unique local strong solutions is firstly established when the initial data are arbitrarily large and satisfy some initial layer compatibility condition. The initial mass density needs not be bounded away from zero and may vanish in some open set. Moreover, we show that if the initial vacuum domain is not so irregular, then the compatibility condition is necessary and sufficient to guarantee the existence of the unique strong solution. Finally, we show a Beal-Kato-Majda type blow-up criterion in terms of $(\nabla I,ρ,θ)$.

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arXiv2014

Existence results for compressible radiation hydrodynamics equations with vacuum

In this paper, we consider the 3-D compressible isentropic radiation hydrodynamics (RHD) equations. The local existence of strong solutions with vacuum is firstly established when the initial data is arbitrarily large, contains vacuum and satisfy some initial layer compatibility condition. The initial mass density needs not be bounded away from zero, it may vanish in some open set or decay at infinity. We also prove that if the initial vacuum is not so irregular, then the compatibility condition of the initial data is necessary and sufficient to guarantee the existence of a unique strong solution. Finally, we prove a blow-up criterion for the local strong solution. The similar result also holds for the general barotropic flow with pressure law $p_m=p_m(ρ)\in C^1(\mathbb{\overline{R}}^+)$.

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arXiv2014

Lower bound of density for Lipschitz continuous solutions in the isentropic gas dynamics

For the Euler equations of isentropic gas dynamics in one space dimension, also knowns as p-system in Lagrangian coordinate, it is known that the density can be arbitrarily close to zero as time goes to infinity, even when initial density is uniformly away from zero. In this paper, for uniform positive initial density, we prove the density in any Lipschitz continuous solutions for Cauchy problem has a sharp positive lower bound in the order of O(1/(1+t)), which is identified by explicit examples in [9](Courant and Friedrichs, Supersonic Flow and Shock Waves, 1948.).

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arXiv2014

On regular solutions of the 3-D compressible isentropic Euler-Boltzmann equations with vacuum

In this paper, we discuss the Cauchy Problem for the compressible isentropic Euler-Boltzmann equations with vacuum in radiation hydrodynamics. Firstly, we establish the local existence of regular solutions by the fundamental methods in the theory of quasi-linear symmetric hyperbolic systems under some physical assumptions. Then we give the non-global existence of regular solutions caused by the effect of vacuum for $1<γ\leq 3$. Finally, we extend our result to the initial-boundary value problem under some suitable boundary conditions. These blow-up results tell us that the radiation cannot prevent the formation of singularities caused by the appearance of vacuum.

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arXiv2014

Blow-up criterion for the compressible magnetohydrodynamic equations with vacuum

In this paper, the 3-D compressible MHD equations with initial vacuum or infinity electric conductivity is considered. We prove that the $L^\infty$ norms of the deformation tensor $D(u)$ and the absolute temperature $θ$ control the possible blow-up (see [5][18][20]) for strong solutions, which means that if a solution of the compressible MHD equations is initially regular and loses its regularity at some later time, then the formation of singularity must be caused by losing the bound of $D(u)$ and $θ$ as the critical time approaches. The viscosity coefficients are only restricted by the physical conditions. Our criterion (see (\ref{eq:2.911})) is similar to [17] for $3$-D incompressible Euler equations, [10] for $3$-D compressible isentropic Navier-stokes equations and [22]for $3$-D compressible isentropic MHD equations.

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arXiv2014

On classical solutions of the compressible magnetohydrodynamic equations with vacuum

In this paper, we consider the 3-D compressible isentropic MHD equations with infinity electric conductivity. The existence of unique local classical solutions is firstly established when the initial data is arbitrarily large, contains vacuum and satisfies some initial layer compatibility condition. The initial mass density needs not be bounded away from zero and may vanish in some open set. Moreover, we prove that the $L^\infty$ norm of the deformation tensor of velocity gradients controls the possible blow-up (see \cite{olga}\cite{zx}) for classical (or strong) solutions, which means that if a solution of the compressible MHD equations is initially regular and loses its regularity at some later time, then the formation of singularity must be caused by the losing the bound of the deformtion tensor as the critical time approches. Our result (see (1.12) is the same as Ponce's criterion for $3$-D incompressible Euler equations \cite{pc} and Huang-Li-Xin's blow-up criterion for the $3$-D compressible Navier-stokes equations \cite{hup}.

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arXiv2014

Formation of singularities in solutions to the compressible radiation hydrodynamics equations with vacuum

We study the Cauchy problem for multi-dimensional compressible radiation hydrodynamics equations with vacuum. First, we present some sufficient conditions on the blow-up of smooth solutions in multi-dimensional space. Then, we obtain the invariance of the support of density for the smooth solutions with compactly supported initial mass density by the property of the system under the vacuum state. Based on the above-mentioned results, we prove that we cannot get a global classical solution, no matter how small the initial data are, as long as the initial mass density is of compact support. Finally, we will see that some of the results that we obtained are still valid for the isentropic flows with degenerate viscosity coefficients as well as 1-D case.

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