The self-similar solutions to full compressible Navier–Stokes equations without heat conductivity

Abstract

In this work, we establish a class of globally defined large solutions to the free boundary problem of compressible full Navier–Stokes equations with constant shear viscosity, vanishing bulk viscosity and heat conductivity. We establish such solutions with initial data perturbed around the self-similar solutions when [Formula: see text]. In the case when [Formula: see text], solutions with bounded entropy can be constructed. It should be pointed out that the solutions we obtain in this fashion do not in general keep being a small perturbation of the self-similar solution due to the second law of thermodynamics, i.e. the growth of entropy. If, in addition, in the case when [Formula: see text], we can construct a solution as a global-in-time small perturbation of the self-similar solution and the entropy is uniformly bounded in time. Our result extends the one of Hadžić and Jang [Expanding large global solutions of the equations of compressible fluid mechanics, J. Invent. Math. 214 (2018) 1205.] from the isentropic inviscid case to the non-isentropic viscous case.