Free boundary value problem for the one-dimensional compressible Navier-Stokes equations with density-dependent viscosity

Abstract

We study the free boundary value problem for one-dimensional isentropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations with density-dependent viscosity coefficient in this paper. Under certain assumptions imposed on the initial data, we show that there exists a unique global strong solution, the interface separating the flow and vacuum state propagates along particle path and expands outwards at an algebraic time-rate, the flow density is strictly positive from blow for any finite time and decays pointwise to zero also at an algebraic time-rate as the time tends to infinity.