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Free boundary problem for compressible flows with density--dependent viscosity coefficients

• In this paper, we consider the free boundary problem of the spherically symmetric compressible isentropic Navier--Stokes equations in $R^n (n \geq 1)$, with density--dependent viscosity coefficients. Precisely, the viscosity coefficients $\mu$ and $\lambda$ are assumed to be proportional to $\rho^\theta$, $0 < \theta < 1$, where $\rho$ is the density. We obtain the global existence, uniqueness and continuous dependence on initial data of a weak solution, with a Lebesgue initial velocity $u_0\in L^{4 m}$, $4m>n$ and $\theta<\frac{4m-2}{4m+n}$. We weaken the regularity requirement of the initial velocity, and improve some known results of the one-dimensional system.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 76D05, 35R35; Secondary: 35Q35, 76N10.

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