Stability of planar rarefaction waves under general viscosity perturbation of the isentropic Euler system (Q2235188)

The authors consider the vanishing viscosity limit for a model of a general non-Newtonian compressible fluid in \(\mathbb{R}^d\), \(d = 2, 3\). It is supposed that the initial data approach a profile determined by the Riemann data generating a planar rarefaction wave for the isentropic Euler system. The 1-D Euler system has the form: \[ \partial_t\tilde{\rho }+ \partial_{x_1}(\tilde{\rho }\tilde{u})=0, \] \[ \partial_t(\tilde{\rho }\tilde{u })+ \partial_{x_1}(\tilde{\rho }\tilde{u}^2) +\partial_{x_1}p(\tilde{\rho })=0,\quad x_1\in\mathbb{R} \] with the Riemann initial data \([\tilde{\rho }(0,x_1),\tilde{u}(0,x_1)]= [\rho_0,\mathbf{u}_0]= [\tilde{\rho }_L,\tilde{u}_L]\) if \(x_1<0\) or \(=[\tilde{\rho }_R,\tilde{u}_R]\) if \(x_1\geq 0\), where \(\tilde{\rho }_L, \tilde{\rho }_R\), and \(\tilde{u}_L,\tilde{u}_R\in\mathbb{R}\) are constants. This Riemann problem admits a self-similar solution \(\tilde{\rho }(x_1/t)\), \(\tilde{u}(x_1/t)\). Moreover, the solution is Lipschitz for any \(t > 0\) provided some inequality hold given in a paper by \textit{E. Chiodaroli} and \textit{O. Kreml} [Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 214, No. 3, 1019--1049 (2014; Zbl 1304.35516)]. The rarefaction waves are actually the shock free solutions to the 1-D Riemann problem. Note that the rarefaction waves are stable objects. It is known that the solutions of the isentropic Navier-Stokes system converge to their Euler counterparts in the 1-D. There is a paper by \textit{L.-A. Li} et al. [Commun. Math. Phys. 376, No. 1, 353--384 (2020; Zbl 1439.35372)], where the authors construct suitable smooth perturbations of the initial data, with the associated strong solutions converging to the rarefaction waves. The main result here concerns general not necessarily smooth and small perturbation of the initial data and rather the general class of viscous stress tensors with a nonlinear dependence on the velocity gradient. The associated sequence of dissipative solutions approaches the corresponding rarefaction wave strongly in the energy norm in the vanishing viscosity limit. The result covers the particular case of a linearly viscous fluid governed by the Navier-Stokes system.