Surface waves for a compressible viscous fluid (Q1411665)

The paper is concerned with the boundary value problem for a compressible viscous isotropic Newtonian fluid. The problem is to find the three-dimensional domain occupied by the fluid which is bounded below by the fixed bottom and above by a free surface, together with the density, the velocity vector field and the absolute temperature of the fluid satisfying the system of Navier-Stokes equations and the initial-boundary conditions. The Navier-Stokes equations consist of the conservations of mass, momentum under the gravitational field in a downward direction and energy. The effect of the surface tension on the free surface is taken into account. The purpose of this paper is to establish two existence theorems to the problem mentioned above: The first concerns with the temporary local solvability in anisotropic Sobolev-Slobodetskii spaces and the second the global solvability near the equilibrium rest state. Here the equilibrium rest state (heat conductive state) means that the temperature distribution is a linear function with respect to a vertical direction and the density is determined by an ordinary differential equation which involves the equation of state. For the proof, the authors rely on the methods due to Solonnikov in the case of incompressible fluid, with some modifications, since the problem is a hyperbolic-parabolic coupled system.