Electron. J. Differential Equations, Vol. 2025 (2025), No. 74, pp. 1-18.

Zero-viscosity-capillarity limit for the contact discontinuity for the 1-D full compressible Navier-Stokes-Korteweg equations

Jiaxue Chen, Yeping Li, Rong Yin

Abstract:
In this article, we study the zero-viscosity-capillarity limit problem for the one-dimensional full compressible Navier-Stokes-Korteweg equations. This equation models compressible viscous fluids with internal capillarity and heat conductivity. We prove that if the solution of the inviscid Euler equations is piecewise constants with a contact discontinuity, then there exist smooth solutions to the one-dimensional full compressible Navier-Stokes-Korteweg system which converge to the inviscid solution away from the contact discontinuity. It converges a rate of \(\epsilon^{1/4}\) as the the viscosity \(\mu=\epsilon\), heat-conductivity coefficient \(\alpha=\nu\epsilon\) and the capillarity \(\kappa=\lambda\epsilon^2\) and \(\epsilon\) tends to zero. The proof is completed using the energy method and the scaling technique.

Submitted May 19, 2025. Published July 16, 2025.
Math Subject Classifications: 76W05, 35B40.
Key Words: Full compressible Navier-Stokes-Korteweg equation; compressible Euler system; zero-viscosity-capillarity limit; contact discontinuity.
DOI: 10.58997/ejde.2025.74

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Jiaxue Chen
School of Mathematics and statistics
Nantong University
Nantong 226019, China
email: jxchen2025@163.com
Yeping Li
School of Mathematics and statistics
Nantong University
Nantong 226019, China
email: ypleemei@aliyun.com
Rong Yin
School of Mathematics and statistics
Nantong University
Nantong 226019, China
email: yin.r@ntu.edu.cn

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