Stability of stationary solutions to the outflow problem for full compressible Navier-Stokes equations with large initial perturbation

Abstract

We investigate the large-time behavior of solutions to an outflow problem of the full compressible Navier-Stokes equations in the half line. The non-degenerate stationary solution is shown to be asymptotically stable under large initial perturbation with no restriction on the adiabatic exponent $\gamma$, provided that the boundary strength is sufficiently small. The proofs are based on the standard energy method and the crucial step is to obtain positive lower and upper bounds of the density and the temperature uniformly in time and space.