On continuation criteria for the full compressible Navier-Stokes equations in Lorentz spaces

TL;DR

This paper establishes new continuation criteria for strong solutions of the 3D compressible Navier-Stokes equations in Lorentz spaces, allowing for vacuum and anisotropic Lebesgue space conditions, advancing understanding of solution breakdown.

Contribution

It introduces the first continuation theorem in Lorentz spaces for compressible fluids and extends blow-up criteria to anisotropic Lebesgue spaces, including vacuum scenarios.

Findings

Derived conditions ensuring solution extension beyond time T.

Established blow-up criteria in anisotropic Lebesgue spaces.

Results applicable to nonhomogeneous incompressible Navier-Stokes equations without density restrictions.

Abstract

In this paper, we derive several new sufficient conditions of non-breakdown of strong solutions for for both the 3D heat-conducting compressible Navier-Stokes system and nonhomogeneous incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. First, it is shown that there exists a positive constant $\varepsilon$ such that the solution $(\rho,u,\theta)$ to full compressible Navier-Stokes equations can be extended beyond $t=T$ provided that one of the following two conditions holds (1) $\rho \in L^{\infty}(0,T;L^{\infty}(\mathbb{R}^{3}))$, $u\in L^{p,\infty}(0,T;L^{q,\infty}(\mathbb{R}^{3}))$ and $$\| u\|_{L^{p,\infty}(0,T;L^{q,\infty}(\mathbb{R}^{3}))}\leq \varepsilon, ~~\text{with}~~ {2/p}+ {3/q}=1,\ \ q>3;$$ (2) $\lambda<3\mu,$ $\rho \in L^{\infty}(0,T;L^{\infty}(\mathbb{R}^{3}))$, $\theta\in L^{p,\infty}(0,T;L^{q,\infty}(\mathbb{R}^{3}))$ and $$\|\theta\|_{L^{p,\infty}(0,T; L^{q,\infty}(\mathbb{R}^{3}))}\leq \varepsilon, ~~\text{with}~~ {2/p}+ {3/q}=2,\ \ q>3/2.$$ To the best of our knowledge, this is the first continuation theorem allowing the time direction to be in Lorentz spaces for the compressible fluid. Second, we establish some blow-up criteria in anisotropic Lebesgue spaces to the full Navier-Stokes system. Third, without the condition on $\rho$ in (0.1) and (0.3), the results also hold for the 3D nonhomogeneous incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. The appearance of vacuum in these systems could be allowed.