Decay estimates for the compressible Navier-Stokes equations in unbounded domains (Q1188029)

We consider the Navier-Stokes equations for a compressible viscous and heat-conductive fluid in the half space or an exterior domain of \(\mathbb{R}^ 3\). By means of suitable differential inequalities and a-priori estimates for elliptic problems we give explicit estimates for the rate with which the instationary solution converges to the corresponding stationary state as \(t\to\infty\).