Singular limits in thermodynamics of viscous fluids (Q5918217)

This second edition updates the original version of 2009 [Zbl 1176.35126]. This book is focused on the analysis of singular limits of heat conducting compressible viscous fluids, with pressure being the sum of two parts, the molecular pressure (keeping in mind the prototype example \(p_M(\rho,\theta)=\theta^{5/2}P(\rho/\theta^{3/2})\) with \(P(0)=0\), \(P'(0)>0\) and \(P(z)\approx z^{5/3}\) for \(z\gg 1\)), and the radiation counterpart (\(p_R(\theta)=a\theta^4/3\), \(a>0\)). The main structure of the present edition is similar to the previous one. In detail, the book is divided into one preliminary chapter, ten chapters and two supplementary chapters. The new material appears in Chapters 7--9, with Chapter 9 being a completely new one. Chapter 0 (Notation, definitions, and function spaces) stands for the notation and preliminary mathematical tools. Chapters 1 (Fluid flow modeling), 2 (Weak solutions: a priori estimates) and 3 (Existence theory) stand for the description and derivation of the variational formulation for the Navier-Stokes-Fourier (NSF) system, complemented with the entropy production rate \(\sigma\) satisfying the inequality \(\sigma\geq\theta^{-1} (\mathbb{S}:\nabla\mathbf{u} - \theta^{-1}\mathbf{q}\cdot\nabla \theta )\), where \(\mathbb{S}\) denotes the viscous stress tensor and \(\mathbf{q}\) represents the internal energy flux. Also, the existence is stated in the class of renormalized solutions. Chapter 4 (Asymptotic analysis: an introduction) identifies a sample of (dimensionless) characteristic numbers, in order to pass from compressible to incompressible limit regime. The low Mach and Froude numbers, asymptotic limit in the regime of low (Fr \(=\sqrt{\mathrm{Ma}}\)) and strong (Ma = Fr) stratification, are studied in Chapters 5 (Singular limits: low stratification) and 6 (Stratified fluids), respectivel.. In Chapter 7 (Interaction of acoustic waves with boundary), the effect of the boundary of the underlying physical space in the asymptotic analysis for the low stratified fluids, which is firstly studied in the case of no-slip boundary condition imposed on a family of domains with ``oscillating'' boundaries, that is, domains of the infinite slab type having fixed flat tops and variable bottoms, is in this version extended to the case of complete slip boundary conditions imposed on the variable bottom boundary. The effect of the boundary layer is produced in the propagation of acoustic waves. In particular, the strong convergence of the velocity is revisited, concluding that the fluid is at rest on the boundary of the limit domain. In Chapter 8 (Problems on large domains), the incompressible limit of the NSF system is examined in the situation when the spatial domain is large with respect to the characteristic speed of sound in the fluid, representing unbounded physical domains due to the difference of scales. Chapter 9 (Vanishing dissipation limits) explores the stability of smooth solutions between the NSF system and its limit, the (incompressible) Euler system with temperature transport, i.e., the Euler equation under constant temperature. Two cases are addressed: (1) when well-prepared initial data, the Mach number Ma \(\rightarrow 0\), the Reynolds and Péclet numbers Re, Pe \(\rightarrow\infty\), and \(R\rightarrow\infty\), where \(R>0\) stands for a expanding family \(\{\Omega_R\}_{R>0}\) of \(C^{2+\nu}\)-domains of \(\mathbb{R}^3\), \(\nu\in (0,1)\), verifying \(B_R\subset\Omega_R\subset\left( B_{R+D}\setminus\overline B_R\right) \), for some \(D>0\); (2) when ill-prepared initial data, Ma, Re, Pe and \(R\) as above additionaly satisfy \(\sqrt{\mathrm{Re}}\mathrm{Ma}^{2/3}\rightarrow 0\). In Chapter 10 (Acoustic analogies), the acoustic equation is discussed in the spirit of Lighthill's acoustic analogy. The last two supplementary chapters, Chapter 11 (Appendix) and Chapter 12 (Bibliographical remarks) close the book by including some additional tools related to mathematical problems in fluid mechanics to offer self-containedness and by providing an explanation of the chosen references because the literature in this field is vast. This second edition is still intended, as so as in the original version, to researchers and doctoral students that are interested in the mathematical theory of asymptotic analysis of heat conducting compressible viscous fluids.