Entropy solutions of the Euler equations for isothermal relativistic fluids

DOI10.1504/IJDSDE.2007.013742MaRDI QIDQ2379088zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mitsuru Yamazaki, Philippe G. LeFloch

Publication date 15 January 2009

Published in International Journal of Dynamical Systems and Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0701042

zbMATH Keywords

existenceinitial value problemmethod of compensated compactnessscaling invariance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Quantum hydrodynamics and relativistic hydrodynamics (76Y05)

Abstract: We investigate the initial-value problem for the relativistic Euler equations governing isothermal perfect fluid flows, and generalize an approach introduced by LeFloch and Shelukhin in the non-relativistic setting. We establish the existence of globally defined, bounded measurable, entropy solutions with arbitrary large amplitude. An earlier result by Smoller and Temple for the same system covered solutions with bounded variation that avoid the vacuum state. The new framework proposed here provides entropy solutions in a larger function space and allows for the mass density to vanish and the velocity field to approach the speed of light. The relativistic Euler equations become strongly degenerate in both regimes, as the conservative or the flux variables vanish or blow-up. Our proof is based on the method of compensated compactness for nonlinear systems of conservation laws (Tartar, DiPerna) and takes advantage of a scaling invariance property of the isothermal fluid equations. We also rely on properties of the fundamental kernel that generates the mathematical entropy and entropy flux pairs. This kernel exhibits certain singularities on the boundary of its support and we are led to analyze certain nonconservative products (after Dal Maso, LeFloch, and Murat) consisting of functions of bounded variation by measures.

Review text

Summary: We investigate the initial value problem for relativistic Euler equations of isothermal perfect fluids, and generalize an existence result due to \textit{P. G. LeFloch} and \textit{V. Shelukhin} [Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 175, No. 3, 389--430 (2005; Zbl 1178.76302)] for the non-relativistic setting. We establish the existence of globally defined, bounded measurable, entropy solutions with arbitrary large amplitude. An earlier result by \textit{J. A. Smoller} and \textit{B. Temple} [Commun. Math. Phys. 156, No. 1, 67--99 (1993; Zbl 0780.76085)] covered solutions with bounded variation that avoid the vacuum state. Our new framework provides solutions in a larger function space and allows for the mass density to vanish and the velocity field to approach the light speed. The relativistic Euler equations become strongly degenerate in both regimes, as the conservative or flux variables vanish or blow-up. Our proof is based on the method of compensated compactness and takes advantage of a scaling invariance property of Euler equations.

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