On the motion of a nearly incompressible viscous fluid containing a small rigid body (Q6052954)

In this interesting paper, the authors consider the motion of an isentropic compressible viscous fluid containing a moving rigid body confined to a planar domain \(\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^2\). The main result states that the influence of the immersed body on the fluid is negligible, provided that (i) the diameter of the body is small and (ii) the fluid is nearly incompressible (in the low Mach number regime). The specific shape of the body as well as the boundary conditions on the fluid-body interface are irrelevant and collisions with the boundary \(\partial \Omega\) are allowed. The rigid body motion may be enforced externally or governed solely by its interaction with the fluid. This paper is a first good attempt to study the negligibility of a small rigid body immersed in a planar viscous \textit{compressible} fluid.