COMPRESSIBLE NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS WITH DENSITY-DEPENDENT VISCOSITY AND VACUUM

In this paper, we study the one-dimensional motion of viscous gas connecting to vacuum state with a jump in density when the viscosity depends on the density. Precisely, when the viscosity coefficient μ is proportional to ρθ and 0 < θ < 1/2, where ρ is the density, the global existence and the uniqueness of weak solutions are proved. This improves the previous results by enlarging the interval of θ.

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