Abstract
In this paper, we prove a new type of energy estimate for the compressible Euler equations with free boundary, with a boundary part and an interior part. These can be thought of as a generalization of the energies in Christodoulou and Lindblad to the compressible case and do not require the fluid to be irrotational. In addition, we show that our estimates are in fact uniform in the sound speed k. As a consequence, we obtain convergence of solutions of compressible Euler equations with a free boundary to solutions of the incompressible equations, generalizing the result of Ebin to when you have a free boundary. In the incompressible case our energies reduce to those in Christodoulou and Lindblad, and our proof in particular gives a simplified proof of their estimates with improved error estimates. Since for an incompressible irrotational liquid with free surface there are small data global existence results, our result leaves open the possibility of long‐time existence also for slightly compressible liquids with a free surface.© 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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