An asymptotic limit of a Navier-Stokes system with capillary effects

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Abstract: A combined incompressible and vanishing capillarity limit in the barotropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations for smooth solutions is proved. The equations are considered on the two-dimensional torus with well prepared initial data. The momentum equation contains a rotational term originating from a Coriolis force, a general Korteweg-type tensor modeling capillary effects, and a density-dependent viscosity. The limiting model is the viscous quasi-geostrophic equation for the "rotated" velocity potential. The proof of the singular limit is based on the modulated energy method with a careful choice of the correction terms.


The authors investigate the barotropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations on the two-dimensional torus with well-prepared initial data. For this purpose they combine an incompressible and vanishing capillarity limit. The main objective of this paper is to make this limit rigorous. Their proof requires the (local) existence of a smooth solution to a corresponding initial value problem, which is shown in the appendix. The momentum equation contains some special terms. The proof of the singular limit is based on the modulated energy method with a careful choice of the correction terms.



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