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A Blow-Up Criterion for the Compressible Navier-Stokes equations

Mathematical Physics 2011-12-16 v1 Analysis of PDEs math.MP

Abstract

In this paper, we obtain a blow up criterion for strong solutions to the 3-D compressible Naveri-Stokes equations just in terms of the gradient of the velocity, similar to the Beal-Kato-Majda criterion for the ideal incompressible flow. The key ingredients in our analysis are the a priori super-norm estimate of the momentum by a Moser-iteration and an estimate of the space-time square mean of the gradient of the density. In addition, initial vacuum is allowed in our case.

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@article{arxiv.0902.2606,
  title  = {A Blow-Up Criterion for the Compressible Navier-Stokes equations},
  author = {Xiangdi Huang and Zhouping Xin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.2606},
  year   = {2011}
}

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19 pages