Stability of rarefaction wave for the compressible non-isentropic Navier-Stokes-Maxwell equations

Abstract

<p style='text-indent:20px;'>We study the large-time asymptotic behavior of solutions toward the rarefaction wave of the compressible non-isentropic Navier-Stokes equations coupling with Maxwell equations under some small perturbations of initial data and also under the assumption that the dielectric constant is bounded. For that, the dissipative structure of this hyperbolic-parabolic system is studied to include the effect of the electromagnetic field into the viscous fluid and turns out to be more complicated than that in the simpler compressible Navier-Stokes system. The proof of the main result is based on the elementary <inline-formula><tex-math id="M1">\begin{document}$ L^2 $\end{document}</tex-math></inline-formula> energy methods.