Problem of the motion of two compressible fluids separated by a closed free interface

Abstract

We consider the problem of the simultaneous evolution for two barotropic capillary viscous compressible fluids occupying the space ℝ3 and separated by a closed free interface. Under some restrictions on the viscosities of the liquids, the local (in time) unique solvability of this problem is obtained in the Sobolev-Slobodetskii spaces. After the passage to Lagrangian coordinates it is possible to exclude the fluid density from the system of equations. The proof of the existence theorem for a nonlinear, noncoercive initial boundary-value problem is based on the method of successive approximations and on an explicit solution of a model linear problem with a plane interface between the liquids. The restrictions on the viscosities mentioned above appear in the intermediate estimation of this explicit solution in the Sobolev spaces with an exponential weight. Bibliography: 8 titles.