Asymptotic stability of rarefaction waves for compressible Navier-Stokes equations with relaxation

Abstract

The asymptotic stability of rarefaction wave for 1-d relaxed compressible isentropic Navier-Stokes equations is established. For initial data with different far-field values, we show that there exists a unique global in time solution. Moreover, as time goes to infinity, the obtained solutions are shown to converge uniformly to rarefaction wave solution of $p$-system with corresponding Riemann initial data. The proof is based on $L^2$ energy methods.