The incompressible limit in $$L^p$$ L p type critical spaces

Abstract

This paper aims at justifying the low Mach number convergence to the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations for viscous compressible flows in the ill-prepared data case. The fluid domain is either the whole space, or the torus. A number of works have been dedicated to this classical issue, all of them being, to our knowledge, related to $L^2$ spaces and to energy type arguments. In the present paper, we investigate the low Mach number convergence in the $L^p$ type critical regularity framework. More precisely, in the barotropic case, the divergence-free part of the initial velocity field just has to be bounded in the critical Besov space $\dot B^{d/p-1}_{p,r}\cap\dot B^{-1}_{\infty,1}$ for some suitable $(p,r)\in[2,4]\times[1,+\infty].$ We still require $L^2$ type bounds on the low frequencies of the potential part of the velocity and on the density, though, an assumption which seems to be unavoidable in the ill-prepared data framework, because of acoustic waves. In the last part of the paper, our results are extended to the full Navier-Stokes system for heat conducting fluids.