On the sharp singular limit for slightly compressible fluids

✍ Scribed by H. Beirão da Veiga

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 479 KB
• Volume: 18
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0170-4214
• DOI: 10.1002/mma.1670180404

✦ Synopsis

We consider the equations of motion to slightly compressible fluids and we prove that solutions converge, in the strong norm, to the solution of the equations of motion of incompressible fluids, as the Mach number goes to zero. From a physical point of view this means the following. Assume that we are dealing with a well-specified fluid, so slightly compressible that we assume it to be incompressible. Our result means that the distance between the (continuous) trajectories of the real and of the idealized solution is 'small' with respect to the natural metric, i.e. the metric that endows the data space.