Asymptotic stability of viscous contact wave and rarefaction waves for the system of heat-conductive ideal gas without viscosity

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the Cauchy problem of heat-conductive ideal gas without viscosity. We show that, for the non-viscous case, if the strengths of the wave patterns and the initial perturbation are suitably small, the unique global-in-time solution exists and asymptotically tends toward the corresponding the viscous contact wave or the composition of a viscous contact wave with rarefaction waves determined by the initial condition, which extended the results by Huang-Li-Matsumura[13], where they treated the viscous and heat-conductive ideal gas.