Vanishing dissipation limit to the planar rarefaction wave for the three-dimensional compressible Navier-Stokes-Fourier equations (Q2135166)

The authors study the 3D Navier-Stokes-Fourier system for a viscous compressible heat-conducting fluid in \(\Omega\in \mathbb{R}^3\). The focus is on vanisihing dissipation limit, i.e., the viscosity coefficients and heat conductivity are proportional to a small parameter. The equation of state is the ideal polytropic flow. The domain is the Cartesian product of a 2D-torus and \(\mathbb{R}\), and so the boundary conditions are periodic in two spatial variables. The limit system is the Euler system (with no viscosity). The authors prove that smooth solutions to the viscous-heat conducting problem exist and converge to the planar rarefaction wave solution of the 3D compressible Euler equations, and the rate of convergence is estimated.