1D compressible flow with temperature dependent transport coefficients

Details 1D compressible flow with temperature dependent transport coefficients 1D compressible flow with temperature dependent transport coefficients

2009-06-25

arxiv.org/abs/0906.4737v1

Mathematics

Analysis of PDEs

26 pages, 1 figure

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We establish existence of global-in-time weak solutions to the one dimensional, compressible Navier-Stokes system for a viscous and heat conducting ideal polytropic gas (pressure $p=K\theta/\tau$, internal energy $e=c_v \theta$), when the viscosity $\mu$ is constant and the heat conductivity $\kappa$ depends on the temperature $\theta$ according to $\kappa(\theta) = \bar \kappa \theta^\beta$, with $0\leq\beta<{3/2}$. This choice of degenerate transport coefficients is motivated by the kinetic theory of gasses. Approximate solutions are generated by a semi-discrete finite element scheme. We first formulate sufficient conditions that guarantee convergence to a weak solution. The convergence proof relies on weak compactness and convexity, and it applies to the more general constitutive relations $\mu(\theta) = \bar \mu \theta^\alpha$, $\kappa(\theta) = \bar \kappa \theta^\beta$, with $\alpha\geq 0$, $0 \leq \beta < 2$ ($\bar \mu, \bar \kappa$ constants). We then verify the sufficient conditions in the case $\alpha=0$ and $0\leq\beta<{3/2}$. The data are assumed to be without vacuum, mass concentrations, or vanishing temperatures, and the same holds for the weak solutions.

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