We study the resolution of discontinuous singularities in gas dynamics via rarefaction waves. The mechanism is well-understood in the one dimensional case. We will prove the non-nonlinear stability of the Riemann problem for multi-dimensional isentropic Euler equations in the regime of rarefaction waves. The proof relies on the new energy estimates \emph{without loss of derivatives}. We also give a detailed geometric description of the rarefaction wave fronts. This is the first paper in the series which provides the \emph{a priori} energy bounds.
In this paper we study large time behaviors toward shock waves and rarefaction waves under periodic perturbations for 1-D convex scalar conservation laws. The asymptotic stabilities and decay rates of shock waves and rarefaction waves under periodic perturbations are proved.
The asymptotic stability of rarefaction wave for 1-d relaxed compressible isentropic Navier-Stokes equations is established. For initial data with different far-field values, we show that there exists a unique global in time solution. Moreover, as time goes to infinity, the obtained solutions are shown to converge uniformly to rarefaction wave solution of $p$-system with corresponding Riemann initial data. The proof is based on $L^2$ energy methods.
We investigate the time-asymptotic stability of planar rarefaction wave for the three-dimensional Boltzmann equation, based on the micro-macro decomposition introduced in [24, 22] and our new observations on the underlying wave structures of the equation to overcome the difficulties due to the wave propagation along the transverse directions and its interactions with the planar rarefaction wave. Note that this is the first stability result of planar rarefaction wave for 3D Boltzmann equation, while the corresponding results for the shock and contact discontinuities are still completely open.
We prove the time-asymptotic stability toward planar rarefaction wave for the three-dimensional full compressible Navier-Stokes equations in an infinite long flat nozzle domain $\mathbb{R}\times\mathbb{T}^2$. Compared with one-dimensional case, the proof here is based on our new observations on the cancellations on the flux terms and viscous terms due to the underlying wave structures, which are crucial to overcome the difficulties due to the wave propagation along the transverse directions $x_2$ and $x_3$ and its interactions with the planar rarefaction wave in $x_1$ direction.
In this paper, we are concerned with the Vlasov-Poisson-Boltzmann (VPB) system in three-dimensional spatial space without angular cutoff in a rectangular duct with or without physical boundary conditions. Near a local Maxwellian with macroscopic quantities given by rarefaction wave solution of one-dimensional compressible Euler equations, we establish the time-asymptotic stability of planar rarefaction wave solutions for the Cauchy problem to VPB system with periodic or specular-reflection boundary condition. In particular, we successfully introduce physical boundaries, namely, specular-reflec…
The large time behavior of the solutions to a multi-dimensional viscous conservation law is considered in this paper. It is shown that the solution time-asymptotically tends to the planar rarefaction wave if the initial perturbations are multi-dimensional periodic. The time-decay rate is also obtained. Moreover, a Gagliardo-Nirenberg type inequality is established in the domain $ \mathbb R \times \mathbb T^{n-1} (n\geq2) $, where $\mathbb T^{n-1}$ is the $ n-1 $-dimensional torus.
Multi-Dimensional Structural Stability of Mixed Riemann Configurations Containing Centered Rarefaction Waves and Surfaces of Discontinuities of Gas Dynamics
School of Mathematics, Hunan University（湖南大学数学学院）；Department of Mathematics, City University of Hong Kong（香港城市大学数学系）
We study supersonic flow past a convex corner which is surrounded by quiescent gas. When the pressure of the upstream supersonic flow is larger than that of the quiescent gas, there appears a strong rarefaction wave to rarefy the supersonic gas. Meanwhile, a transonic characteristic discontinuity appears to separate the supersonic flow behind the rarefaction wave from the static gas. In this paper, we employ a wave front tracking method to establish structural stability of such a flow pattern under non-smooth perturbations of the upcoming supersonic flow. It is an initial-value/free-boundary p…
Stability of Superposition of Viscous Contact Wave and Rarefaction Waves for Compressible Navier-Stokes System with Degenerate Heat-Conductivity and Large-Data
This paper studies the asymptotic stability of solution to an initial-boundary value problem for a hyperbolic-elliptic coupled system on two-dimensional half space, where the data on the boundary and at the far field are prescribed as $u_-$ and $u_+$. We show that the solution to the problem converges to the corresponding planar rarefaction wave for $0\le u_-<u_+$ as time tends to infinity under smallness assumptions on the initial perturbation and wave strength. These results are based on the analysis of div-curl decomposition, the standard $L^2$-energy method, $L^1$-estimate, and the monoton…
In this paper, we study the nonlinear stability of the composite wave consisting of planar rarefaction and planar contact waves for viscous conservation laws with degenerate flux under multi-dimensional periodic perturbations. To the level of our knowledge, it is the first stability result of the composite wave for conservation laws in several dimensions. Moreover, the perturbations studied in the present paper are periodic, which keep constantly oscillating at infinity. Suitable ansatz is constructed to overcome the difficulty caused by this kind of perturbation and delicate estimates are don…
This paper studies the asymptotic stability of shock profiles and rarefaction waves under space-periodic perturbations for one-dimensional convex scalar viscous conservation laws. For the shock profile, we show that the solution approaches the background shock profile with a constant shift in the $ L^\infty(\mathbb{R}) $ norm at exponential rates. The new phenomena contrasting to the case of localized perturbations is that the constant shift cannot be determined by the initial excessive mass in general, which indicates that the periodic oscillations at infinities make contributions to this shi…
Stability of composite waves consisting of a non-classical Liu shock and a rarefaction wave for a non-convex viscoelastic system
State Key Laboratory of Mathematical Sciences and Institute of Applied Mathematics, AMSS, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院数学与系统科学研究院应用数学研究所）；University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）；Chengdu University of Technology（成都理工大学）
We study the asymptotic stability of a planar rarefaction wave (in the $ x_1 $- direction) for the 3-d isentropic Navier-Stokes equations, where the initial perturbation is periodic on the torus $ \mathbb{T}^3 $ with zero average. To solve this Cauchy problem in which the initial data is periodic with respect to only $ x_2 $ and $ x_3 $ but not to $ x_1, $ we construct a suitable ansatz carrying the oscillations of the solution in the $ x_1 $- direction, but remaining to be periodic in the transverse $ x_2 $- and $ x_3 $- directions. In such a way, the difference between the ansatz and the sol…
Considering the space-periodic perturbations, we prove the time-asymptotic stability of the composite wave of a viscous contact wave and two rarefaction waves for the Cauchy problem of 1-D compressible Navier-Stokes equations in this paper. This kind of perturbations keep oscillating at the far field and are not integrable. The key is to construct a suitable ansatz carrying the same oscillation %eliminating the oscillation of the solution as in \cite{HuangXuYuan2020,HuangYuan2021}, but due to the degeneration of contact discontinuity, the construction is more subtle. We find a way to use the s…
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 the viscous contact wave with two rarefaction waves is asymptotically stable with a large initial perturbation if the strength of the composite wave and the heat conductivity coefficient satisfy some smallness conditions. The proof…
We study the large-time asymptotic behavior of solutions toward the combination of a viscous contact wave with two rarefaction waves for the compressible non-isentropic Navier-Stokes equations coupling with the Maxwell equations through the Lorentz force (called the Navier-Stokes-Maxwell equations). It includes the electrodynamic effects into the dissipative structure of the hyperbolic-parabolic system and turns out to be more complicated than that in the simpler compressible Navier-Stokes equations. Based on a new observation of the specific structure of the Maxwell equations in the Lagrangia…
We investigate the time-asymptotically nonlinear stability of rarefaction waves to the Cauchy problem of an one-dimensional compressible Navier-Stokes type system for a viscous, compressible, radiative and reactive gas, where the constitutive relations for the pressure $p$, the specific internal energy $e$, the specific volume $v$, the absolute temperature $θ$, and the specific entropy $s$ are given by $p=Rθ/v +aθ^4/3$, $e=C_vθ+avθ^4$, and $s=C_v\ln θ+ 4avθ^3/3+R\ln v$ with $R>0$, $C_{v}>0$, and $a>0$ being the perfect gas constant, the specific heat and the radiation constant, respectively. F…
It is well-known that the rarefaction wave, one of the basic wave patterns to the hyperbolic conservation laws, is nonlinearly stable to the one-dimensional compressible Navier-Stokes equations (cf. [14,15,12,17]). In the present paper we proved the time-asymptotically nonlinear stability of the planar rarefaction wave to the two-dimensional compressible and isentropic Navier-Stokes equations, which gives the first stability result of the planar rarefaction wave to the multi-dimensional system with physical viscosities.
Nonlinear Stability for the Superposition of Viscous Contact Wave and Rarefaction Waves to Non-isentropic Compressible Navier-Stokes System with General Initial Perturbations
Global stability of superposition of viscous contact wave and rarefaction waves for compressible Navier-Stokes system with temperature-dependent transport coefficients and large data
This paper is concerned with the impermeable wall problem for an ideal polytropic model of non-viscous and heat-conductive gas in one-dimensional half space. It is shown that the 3-rarefaction wave is stable under some smallness conditions. The proof is given by an elementary energy method and the key point is to control the boundary terms due to the less dissipativity of the system.
In this paper, we establish the global in time hydrodynamic limit of Boltzmann equation to the planar rarefaction wave of compressible Euler system in three dimensional space $x\in\mathbb{R}^3$ for general collision kernels. Our approch is based on a generalized Hilbert expansion, and a recent $L^2-L^\infty$ framework. In particular, we improve the $L^2$-estimate to be a localized version because the planar rarefaction wave is indeed a one-dimensional wave which makes the source terms to be not integrable in the $L^2$ energy estimate of three dimensional problem. We also point out that the wav…
In this paper, we investigate the asymptotic behavior of solutions to the Cauchy problem with the far field condisiton for the generalized Benjamin-Bona-Mahony-Burgers equation with a fourth-order dissipative term. When the corresponding Riemann problem for the hyperbolic part admits a Riemann solution which consists of single rarefaction wave, it is proved that the solution of the Cauchy problem tends toward the rarefaction wave as time goes to infinity. We can further obtain the same global asymptotic stability of the rarefaction wave to the generalized Korteweg-de Vries-Benjamin-Bona-Mahony…
We prove the time-asymptotic stability of composite waves consisting of the superposition of a viscous shock and a rarefaction for the one-dimensional compressible barotropic Navier-Stokes equations. Our result solves a long-standing problem first mentioned in 1986 by Matsumura and Nishihara in [25]. The same authors introduced it officially as an open problem in 1992 in [26] and it was again described as very challenging open problem in 2018 in the survey paper [23]. The main difficulty is due to the incompatibility of the standard anti-derivative method, used to study the stability of viscou…
We are concerned with the large time behavior of solutions to the Cauchy problem of the one-dimensional compressible micropolar fluid model without viscosity, where the far-field states of the initial data are prescribed to be different. If the corresponding Riemann problem of the compressible Euler system admits a contact discontinuity and two rarefaction waves solutions, we show that for such a non-viscous model, the combination of the viscous contact wave with two rarefaction waves is time-asymptotically stable provided that the strength of the composite wave and the initial perturbation ar…
Hydrodynamic limit of rarefaction wave for the Vlasov-Maxwell-Landau system with Coulomb potential
School of Mathematics, Guangxi University（广西大学数学学院）；Department of Applied Mathematics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University（香港理工大学应用数学系）；Center for Applied Mathematical of Guangxi (Guangxi University)（广西应用数学中心（广西大学））
This paper is concerned with the asymptotic stability of the solution to an initial-boundary value problem on the half line for a hyperbolic-elliptic coupled system of the radiating gas, where the data on the boundary and at the far field state are defined as $u_-$ and $u_+$ satisfying $u_-<u_+$. For the scalar viscous conservation law case, it is known by the work of Liu, Matsumura, and Nishihara (SIAM J. Math. Anal. 29 (1998) 293-308) that the solution tends toward rarefaction wave or stationary solution or superposition of these two kind of waves depending on the distribution of $u_\pm$. Mo…
