Vanishing viscosity limit to the planar rarefaction wave for the two-dimensional full compressible Navier-Stokes equations (Q2180578)

It is well-known that the vanishing viscosity limit for the compressible Navier-Stokes (NS) equations to the corresponding Euler equations with basic wave patterns has been investigated by many people in the 1D case. However, the study to the multi-dimensional case is very limited and few results have been recently obtained for the planar rarefaction waves. In this paper, the authors study the vanishing viscosity limit to the planar rarefaction wave for the 2D non-isentropic compressible NS equations. Compared with the known results of 2D isentropic flows in the literature, here the authors aim to obtain a better convergence rate in the vanishing parameter parameter \(\epsilon\). By choosing a different scaling argument and performing more detailed energy estimates, the authors establish a convergence rate of \(\epsilon^{2/7}|\ln\epsilon |^2\), a faster decay-rate than that in [\textit{L.-A. Li} et al., Commun. Math. Phys. 376, No. 1, 353--384 (2020; Zbl 1439.35372)].