On the long-time behaviour of solutions to the Navier-Stokes-Fourier system with a time-dependent driving force (Q2465116)

The authors consider the long-time behaviour for the compressible Navier--Stokes--Fourier system with a time dependent force. They show, under physically reasonable assumptions on the properties of the fluid, that in the case of mechanically and thermically isolated system (i.e. no heat and mass transfer through the boundary) for \(f \in L^\infty((0,\infty); L^\infty(\Omega))\) only two scenarios are possible. Either the energy grows to infinity or the driving force converges to a potential one for time tending to infinity. If, additionally, the force is potential and independent of time then the velocity converges to zero, the density converges to \(\rho_s(x)\) and the temperature converges to a positive constant \(\theta_s\), where the pair \((\rho_s,\theta_s)\) is the static solution to the Navier--Stokes--Fourier system.