Existence results for viscous polytropic fluids with degenerate viscosity coefficients and vacuum (Q2345569)

The mathematical model to the compressible isenotropic fluid with degenerate viscosities is the Cauchy problem \[ \begin{cases}\frac{\partial \rho}{\partial t}+\text{div}\,(\rho u)=0,\quad x\in\mathbb{R}^3, \;t>0, \\ \frac{\partial }{\partial t}(\rho u)+\text{div}\,(\rho u\otimes u)-\text{div}\, \mathbb{T}(u)+\nabla p=0,\quad x\in\mathbb{R}^3,\;t>0, \\ \rho(x,0)=\rho_0(x),\quad u(x,0)=u_0(x),\quad x\in\mathbb{R}^3. \end{cases} \] It is assumed additionally \[ (\rho, u)\;\to\;(0,0)\quad \text{as}\quad | x |\;\to\;\infty,\quad t>0. \] Here \(u=(u_1,u_2,u_3)\) is the velocity of a fluid, \(\rho\) is the density, \(\mathbb{T}(u)\) is the stress tensor \[ \mathbb{T}(u)=\mu(\rho)(\nabla u+(\nabla u)^T)+\lambda (\rho)\text{div}\,u\mathbb{I}, \] \(\mu(\rho)=\alpha\rho\) is the shear viscosity, \(\lambda (\rho)=\rho E(\rho)\) is the second viscosity. Constant \(\alpha\) and function \(\rho\) satisfy to the conditions \[ \alpha>0,\quad 2\alpha+3 E(\rho)\geq 0,\quad E\in C^2(\mathbb{R}^+). \] The pressure \(p\) depends of the density \(\rho\) by the law \[ p=A\rho^\gamma. \] The main result of the paper is the existence theorem. Let \(1<\gamma\leq 2\) or \(\gamma=3\). If the initial data are regular \[ \rho_0\in H^2,\quad u_0\in H^2,\quad \rho_0\geq 0, \] then the Cauchy problem has a unique regular solution \((\rho,u)\) on a small time interval \((0,T)\) \[ \rho\in C([0,T],H^2),\quad \rho_t\in C([0,T],H^1),\quad u\in C([0,T],H^2),\quad u_t\in C([0,T],L^2). \] The non-existence of global solutions with \(L^\infty\) decay on \(u\) is proved too.