Global well-posedness of the Euler-Korteweg system for small irrotational data

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Abstract: The Euler-Korteweg equations are a modification of the Euler equations that takes into account capillary effects. In the general case they form a quasi-linear system that can be recast as a degenerate Schr"odinger type equation. Local well-posedness (in subcritical Sobolev spaces) was obtained by Benzoni-Danchin-Descombes in any space dimension, however, except in some special case (semi-linear with particular pressure) no global well-posedness is known. We prove here that under a natural stability condition on the pressure, global well-posedness holds in dimension dgeq3 for small irrotational initial data. The proof is based on a modified energy estimate, standard dispersive properties if dgeq5, and a careful study of the nonlinear structure of the quadratic terms in dimension 3 and 4 involving the theory of space time resonance.


The subject of the paper under review is the compressible Euler-Korteweg system. This system can be seen as a generalization of the standard compressible Euler equations, because of the presence of the so-called Korteweg tensor, which is intended to take into account capillary effects and models, in particular the behavior at the interfaces of a liquid-vapor mixture. This system appears in different frameworks, for instance for a special choice of the tensor one can recover formally the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. Also, in the irrotational case (i.e. the initial velocity is irrotational), the system can be reformulated as a quasilinear Schrödinger equation. The main contribution of the authors in this paper is the proof of the global well-posedness and asymptotically linear behavior of small smooth solutions near the constant sate \((\rho,u)=(\overline\rho,0)\), where \(\rho\) and \(u\) stand for the fluid density and velocity field respectively. This seems to be the first global well-posedness result for the Euler-Korteweg system in the case of a general pressure and capillary coefficient. The proofs are different in dimensions 3 and 4 and when it is greater than 4 and beside standard techniques the authors rely on some singular multiplier estimates.



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