The vacuum boundary problem for the spherically symmetric compressible Euler equations with positive density and unbounded entropy

Abstract

Global stability of the spherically symmetric nonisentropic compressible Euler equations with positive density around global-in-time background affine solutions is shown in the presence of free vacuum boundaries. Vacuum is achieved despite a non-vanishing density by considering a negatively unbounded entropy and we use a novel weighted energy method whereby the exponential of the entropy will act as a changing weight to handle the degeneracy of the vacuum boundary. Spherical symmetry introduces a coordinate singularity near the origin for which we adapt a method developed for the Euler-Poisson system by Guo, Hadžic and Jang to our problem.