Stability of Coexisting Phases for Compressible Van Der Waals Fluids

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The authors consider the Navier-Stokes equations for compressible van der Waals fluids in one space dimension, i.e. \[ \begin{aligned} v_ t-u_ x & = 0, \\ u_ t+p(v,e)_ x & =\left( {\varepsilon u_ x \over v} \right)_ x, \\ \left( {1\over 2} u^ 2+e \right)_ t+(up(v,e))_ x & =\left( {\varepsilon uu_ x \over v} +{\lambda T(v,e)_ x \over v} \right)_ x. \end{aligned} \tag{*} \] They examine the nonlinear stability of steady state solutions \((\overline v,\overline u,\overline e)\) consisting of two constant states separated by a convecting phase boundary. It is proved that \((*)\) has a global weak solution \((v,u,e)\) which converges uniformly to \((\overline v,\overline u,\overline e)\) as \(t \to \infty\) provided its initial values are sufficiently close to \((\overline v,\overline u,\overline e)\). The main part of the proof consists in the derivation of time independent upper bounds for various norms of \((v-\overline v,u- \overline u,e-\overline e)\).











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