Global wellposedness and large time behavior of solutions to the N-dimensional compressible Oldroyd-B model

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to study the global wellposedness and large time behavior results of strong solutions for the compressible Oldroyd-B model derived by Barrett, Lu, Süli (Commun. Math. Sci., 15, 1265–1323, 2017). Exploiting the harmonic analysis tools (especially Littlewood-Paley theory), we first study the global well-posedness of the model with small initial data in spaces with low regularity. Then, under some suitable conditions involving only the low frequency of the initial data, we also obtain the optimal decay rates of the solutions. Compared with the result by Wang and Wen (Math. Models Methods Appl. Sci., 30, 139–179, 2020), the polymer number density is allowed to vanish and the stress tensor is near zero equilibrium.