Navier-Stokes regularization of multidimensional Euler shocks

摘要

We establish existence and stability of multidimensional shock fronts in the vanishing viscosity limit for a general class of conservation laws with "real", or partially parabolic, viscosity including the Navier-Stokes equations of compressible gas dynamics with standard or van der Waals-type equation of state. More precisely, given a curved Lax shock solution u(0) of the corresponding inviscid equations for which (i) each of the associated planar shocks tangent to the shock front possesses a smooth viscous profile and (ii) each of these viscous profiles satisfies a uniform spectral stability condition expressed in terms of an Evans function, we construct nearby smooth viscous shock solutions u(is an element of) of the viscous equations converging to u(0) as viscosity is an element of -> 0, and establish for these sharp linearized stability estimates generalizing those of Majda in the inviscid case. Conditions (i)-(ii) hold always for shock waves of sufficiently small amplitude, but in general may fail for large amplitudes.