Vanishing viscosity approach to the compressible Euler equations for transonic nozzle and spherically symmetric flows (Q1661670)

The authors are concerned with global entropy solutions to the Euler equations for compressible fluid flows in transonic nozzles whose cross-sectional area functions are allowed at the nozzle ends to be either zero or infinity. Using a vanishing viscosity method (involving Dirichlet boundary conditions) they define approximate solutions and establish essential uniform estimates for them in weighted \(L^p\)-norms. These estimates lead to the convergence of the approximate solutions to the global, finite energy entropy solutions to the Euler equations for any adiabatic exponent \(\gamma \in (1, \infty)\). The method is used to construct global, spherically symmetric entropy solutions to the Euler equations for all \(\gamma \in (1,\infty)\).