A remark on smooth solutions of the weakly compressible periodic Navier-Stokes equations (Q5930687)

The author studies periodic solutions of the weakly compressible Navier-Stokes equations for small Mach numbers. The main results of the paper are: (i) If the initial velocity satisfies a smallness condition in terms of the viscosity, then the system has a smooth solution for all \(T > 0.\) (ii) As the Mach number tends to zero, the solution of the compressible system approaches the solution of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations plus a term which represents the fast waves.