The book presents and develops the most recent ideas and concepts of the mathematical theory of viscous, compressible, and heat conducting fluids. Two main objectives are pursued: (i) global existence theory within the framework of variational solutions for the full Navier-Stokes-Fourier system supplemented with large data, and (ii) optimal existence results for barotropic flows with respect to the available a priori estimates.
Keywords: Navier-Stokes-Fourier system, compressible fluid, viscous fluid, heat conducting fluid, global existence, weak solution
| Print publication date: 2003 | Print ISBN-13: 9780198528388 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2007 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198528388.001.0001 |