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This book deals with some mathematical problems of convection processes in viscous weakly compressible fluid. The first chapter contains technical results concerning properties of certain functional spaces. In particular, multiplicative inequalities of Nirenberg-Galiardo type are derived, and on this basis integral estimates are obtained for nonlinear differential operators, arising in convection problems. In the second chapter the notion of weakly compressible fluid is introduced, and initial boundary value problems with axial symmetry are formulated for viscous thermally inhomogeneous weakly compressible fluids. The corresponding system of PDEs for velocity, temperature, and heat flow is written in cylindrical coordinates. Since such a system involves a small parameter, the notion of asymptotic solution can be naturally introduced. This solution is governed by a system of 4 quasilinear equations of different types (parabolic and elliptic), together with initial and boundary conditions. The author proves that such a system has a unique weak solution. Besides this result, the author obtains here also some auxiliary results concerning simplified models such as Boussinesq initial-boundary value problem which describes the convection of viscous incompressible fluid. In the third chapter the author studies a difficult three-dimensional problem of convection in viscous thermally inhomogeneous weakly compressible fluid. The corresponding mathematical model involves two small parameters. An asymptotic solution is introduced based on the fact that any vector field in \(\mathbb R^3\) can be decomposed into a sum of solenoidal and potential components. The problem is simplified and reduced to a modified Boussinesq equations, for which the global unique solvability is established. Then the general case is investigated, and some essential difficulties arising here are discussed. The last chapter is devoted to the stability of weak solutions. For all problems from the previous chapters the author proves continuous dependence of solutions on initial data, and establishes estimates which guarantee Lipschitz properties of inverse operators for convection problems. The book concludes with theorems on asymptotic stability of solutions together with estimates of exponential type which describe long-time averaged dissipation rates of solutions.