Regularity of weak solutions of the compressible barotropic Navier-Stokes equations

Publication date 10 November 2011

Abstract: Regularity and uniqueness of weak solutions of the compressible barotropic Navier-Stokes equations with constant viscosity coefficients is proven for small time in dimension

N = 2, 3

under periodic boundary conditions. In this paper, the initial density is not required to have a positive lower bound and the pressure law is assumed to satisfy a condition that reduces to

P (h o) = a h o^{g a m m a}

with

g a m m a > 1

(in dimension three, additional conditions of size will be ask on

g a m m a

). The second part of the paper is devoted to blow-up criteria for slightly subcritical initial data for the scaling of the equations when the viscosity coefficients

(m u, l a m b d a)

are assumed constant provided that their ratio is large enough (in particular

0 < l a m b d a < (5 / 4) m u

). More precisely we prove that under the condition

h o

belongs to

L^{i n f t y} ((0, T) i m e s T^{N})

then we can extend the unique solution beyond

T > 0

. Finally, we prove that weak solutions in the torus

m a t h b b T^{N}

turn out to be smooth as long as the density remains bounded in

L^{i n f t y} (0, T, L^{(N + 1 + e) g a m m a} (m a t h b b T^{N}))

with

e > 0

arbitrary small. This result may be considered as a Prodi-Serrin theorem (see cite{prodi} and cite{serrin}) for compressible Navier-Stokes system.

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