Dimension Reduction of Compressible Fluid Models over Product Manifolds

Abstract

In this paper we study the dimension reduction limits of the compressible Navier--Stokes equations over product Riemannian manifolds $\mathcal{O}_\epsilon \cong \mathcal{M} \times \epsilon\mathcal{F}$, such that $\dim\,(\mathcal{M})=n$ and $\dim\,(\mathcal{F})=d$ are arbitrary. Using the method of relative entropies, we establish the convergence of the suitable weak solutions of the Navier--Stokes equations on $\mathcal{O}_\epsilon$ to the classical solution of the limiting equations on $\mathcal{M}$ as $\epsilon \rightarrow 0^+$, provided the latter exists. In addition, we also deduce the vanishing viscosity limit. The limiting equations identified through our analysis contain the weight function $A:\mathcal{M} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^+$ as a parameter, where $A(x)$ = area of fibre $\mathcal{F}_x$. Our work is based on and generalises the results in P. Bella, E. Feireisl, M. Lewicka and A. Novotn\'{y}, A rigorous justification of the Euler and Navier--Stokes equations with geometric effects, \textit{SIAM J. Math. Anal.}, \textbf{48} (2016), 3907--3930, and it contains as special cases the physical models of circular nozzles, thin plate limits and finite-length longitudinal nozzles.