On the low Mach number limit for Quantum Navier-Stokes equations

Abstract

We investigate the low Mach number limit for the 3-D quantum Navier-Stokes system. For general ill-prepared initial data, we prove strong convergence of finite energy weak solutions to weak solutions of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. Our approach relies on a quite accurate dispersive analysis for the acoustic part, governed by the well-known Bogoliubov dispersion relation for the elementary excitations of the weakly-interacting Bose gas. Once we have a control of the acoustic dispersion, the a priori bounds provided by the energy and Bresch-Desjardins entropy type estimates lead to the strong convergence. Moreover, for well-prepared data we show that the limit is a Leray weak solution, namely it satisfies the energy inequality. Solutions under consideration in this paper are not smooth enough to allow for the use of relative entropy techniques.