Dissipative solutions to compressible Navier-Stokes equations with general inflow-outflow data: existence, stability and weak strong uniqueness

DOI10.1007/S00021-020-00553-ZMaRDI QIDQ1995036zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 18 February 2021

Published in Journal of Mathematical Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.02667

dissipative solution entropy inequality Feireisl-Lions theory inhomogeneous boundary condition relative energy inequality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Navier-Stokes equations (35Q30) Compressible Navier-Stokes equations (76N06) Existence, uniqueness, and regularity theory for compressible fluids and gas dynamics (76N10)

Abstract: So far existence of dissipative weak solutions for the compressible Navier-Stokes equations (i.e. weak solutions satisfying the relative energy inequality) is known only in the case of boundary conditions with non zero inflow/outflow (i.e., in particular, when the normal component of the velocity on the boundary of the ow domain is equal to zero). Most of physical applications (as ows in wind tunnels, pipes, reactors of jet engines) requires to consider non-zero inflow-outflow boundary condtions. We prove existence of dissipative weak solutions to the compressible Navier-Stokes equations in barotropic regime (adiabatic coefficient gamma>3/2, in three dimensions, gamma>1 in two dimensions)with large velocity prescribed at the boundary and large density prescribed at the inflow boundary of a bounded piecewise regular Lipschitz domain, without any restriction neither on the shape of the inflow/outflow boundaries nor on the shape of the domain. It is well known that the relative energy inequality has many applications, e.g., to investigation of incompressible or inviscid limits, to the dimension reduction of flows, to the error estimates of numerical schemes. In this paper we deal with one of its basic applications, namely weak-strong uniqueness principle.

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This work deals with a problem of the flow of the Newtonian compressible fluid in a 3D domain with inflow-outflow boundary conditions -- these data are supposed to be arbitrarily large. The authors provide fundamental results for such a system. Namely, they show the existence of a dissipative weak solution, roughly speaking a weak solution satisfying the relative entropy inequality. This particular notion of solution was chosen because of its admissibility for further analysis. As an example, the authors use the advantage of the relative entropy inequality to show the weak (dissipative)-strong uniqueness property. The proof of existence relies on ideas of the Feireisl-Lions theory, nevertheless, the choice of the boundary conditions requires novelties. One of them is a different approach to the pressure limit where one needs to construct appropriate test functions near the boundary in order to get uniform integrability of pressure. The weak-strong uniqueness property itself relies on rather standard use of the relative entropy inequality. Throughout the whole paper, the authors assumed that \(\Omega\) is a \(C^2\) domain. This particular assumption is weakened in the last section of the article where the authors admit domains which are piecewise \(C^2\) and Lipschitz. This generalization allows to handle many practical situations -- a typical example is a finite cylinder with inflow and outflow boundaries being lower and upper discs of the boundary of the cylinder.

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