Inertial Limit of global weak solutions for Compressible Navier--Stokes

TL;DR

This paper rigorously analyzes the inertial limit of the compressible Navier--Stokes equations on a 3D torus, showing convergence to a stationary system with vanishing kinetic energy and overdamped behavior.

Contribution

It provides a rigorous mathematical framework for the overdamped limit of compressible viscous flows with vacuum regions, extending previous analyses to global weak solutions.

Findings

Convergence of scaled solutions to a stationary elliptic balance

Vanishing kinetic energy in the inertial limit

Weak solutions satisfy an exact energy equality in the limit

Abstract

We investigate the inertial limit of the compressible Navier--Stokes system posed on the $3$-dimensional torus, and allowing for regions of vacuum. Considering global-in-time finite-energy weak solutions of a scaled system, we rigorously establish convergence to a limiting system in which the momentum equation reduces to a stationary elliptic balance between pressure and viscous forces. In this limit, the scaled kinetic energy vanishes, reflecting an overdamped regime, and the limiting weak solution satisfies an exact energy equality. Our analysis relies on uniform a priori estimates, renormalized techniques, and compactness arguments in the Lions--Feireisl framework, providing a mathematically rigorous analysis for the overdamped dynamics arising from vanishing inertia in compressible viscous flows.