Expanding large global solutions of the equations of compressible fluid mechanics (Q1628416)

The dynamics of moving gases in three dimensions as described by compressible isentropic Euler system is considered. Without any symmetry assumptions on the initial data, global-in-time unique solutions are constructed to the vacuum free boundary when the adiabatic exponent \(\gamma\) lies in the interval \((1, 5/3]\). The paper is organized as follows. Section 1 is an introduction. In Section 2, the stability problem is formulated and the main result in Lagrangian coordinates is stated. Vorticity bounds are explained in Section 3, main energy estimates in Section 4, and the proof of the main theorem in Section 5. The paper is finished with four appendices. In Appendix A, the properties of the background solution are summarized. Appendix B contains the basic properties of commutators between various differential operators used in the paper, while Appendix C contains the statements of frequently used Hardy-Sobolev embeddings. In Appendix D, an alternative and equivalent formulation of the problem starting from the Lagrangian coordinates are given.