Existence of strong solutions with critical regularity to a polytropic model for radiating flows (Q509566): Difference between revisions

The authors consider a model of radiative fluid which is governed by the standard field equations of classical continuum fluid mechanics. The model is based on the compressible Navier-Stokes-Fourier system, describing the evolution of the mass density, the velocity field and the absolute temperature as functions of the time \(t\) and of the Eulerian spatial coordinate \(x\). It is assumed that the fluid domain is the whole space \(\mathbb R^n\). The time evolution of intensity is governed by a transport equation with a source term depending on the temperature, while the coupling to the macroscopic motion of the fluid is achieved by extra source terms in the momentum equation evaluated by means of intensity and temperature. The authors wish to the existence theory in a critical spaces for the radiative barotropic Navier-Stokes system, to the more physically relevant polytropic situation. In this sense they considering the \(P1\) approximation and the so-called grey case where the transport coefficients are pure positive constants independent of the frequency. A main result is the local-in-time well posedness either for smooth data and quite general assumptions on the coefficients of the system, or in the ``critical regularity framework'' but for coefficients depending only on the density, and linear equilibrium distribution function. Other result is global existence for small perturbations of a stable constant equilibrium in the strongly under relativistic situation. Also, we find a spectral analysis of the linearized equations about a constant reference state. In the last result the authors exhibit a necessary and sufficient linear stability condition in the low-frequency regime, which is fulfilled in the strongly relativistic regime, and prove optimal global-in-time estimates for the linearized equations.