Stability of planar stationary solutions to the compressible Navier-Stokes equation on the half space (Q881629)

The authors consider the large-time behavior of solutions to the compressible Navier-Stokes equation: \(\partial_t\rho+\text{div}(\rho u)=0\), \(\partial_t(\rho u)+ \text{div}(\rho u\otimes u)+\nabla p(\rho)= u\Delta u+(\mu+\mu')\nabla \text{div}\,u\), and \(p(\rho)=K\rho^\gamma\), \(\gamma>1\), on the half-space \({\mathbb R}_+^n\) for \(n\geq 2\), under the initial condition \((\rho,u)| _{t=0}=(\rho_0,u_0)\) and the outflow boundary condition \(u| _{x_1=0}=(u_b^1,0,\dots,0)\), where \(u_b^1<0\) is a constant, together with the boundary condition \(\rho\rightarrow\rho_+\), \(u\rightarrow(u_b^1,0,\dots,0)\) as \(x_1\rightarrow\infty\), where \(\rho_+>0\) is a constant. It is shown by means of an a priori estimate that the planar stationary solution is stable with respect to small perturbations in \(H^s({\mathbb R}^n)\) with \(s\geq[n/2]+1\) and the perturbations decay in the \(L^\infty\) norm as \(t\rightarrow\infty\) provided the perturbations are sufficiently small.