Asymptotic behavior of spherically or cylindrically symmetric solutions to the compressible Navier-Stokes equations with large initial data (Q2300984)

The authors study the large-time behavior of global spherically/cylindrically symmetric strong solutions to the compressible Navier-Stokes equations for ideal polytropic gases in an \(n\)-dimensional annular domain, with large initial data in \(H^1\) and the heat conductivity coefficient depending on the temperature in the form: \(\kappa (\theta )=\kappa_1 + \kappa_2\theta^q\), where \(\kappa_1,\kappa_2 ,q >0\) are constants. By employing careful weighted uniform-in-time energy estimates and using the iterative method from [\textit{C. M. Dafermos}, SIAM J. Math. Anal. 13, 397--408 (1982; Zbl 0489.73124); \textit{R. Pan} and \textit{W. Zhang}, Commun. Math. Sci. 13, No. 2, 401--425 (2015; Zbl 1315.35173)], the authors obtain the exponential decay rate of the solutions toward to the constant state as time tends to infinity. Besides, the mass density and temperature are shown to be pointwise bounded from below and above, independent of time. Moreover, in the case of \(\kappa_1 = 0\) and \(\kappa_2 > 0\), i.e., the case of degenerate heat conductivity, the authors also get a similar decay result for \(1/2 < q < 1\).