Asymptotic stability of steady compressible fluids. (Q545397)

Addressed to a wide audience of theoretical and applied mathematicians, this monograph introduces a systematic approach to the solution of some problems that arise in the study of hyperbolic-parabolic systems of equations governing the motions of thermodynamic fluids. It contains recent results on nonlinear asymptotic stability under no smallness assumption on initial data. The author also does not assume the loss of control from initial data for some steady flows of compressible fluids. The main ideas are illustrated in the context of three different physical problems: (i) A barotropic viscous gas in a fixed domain with compact boundary. The domain may be either an exterior domain or a bounded domain, and the boundary may be either impermeable or porous. (ii) An isothermal viscous gas in a domain with free boundaries. (iii) A heat-conducting viscous polytropic gas.