The Global Existence of Martingale Solutions to Stochastic Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations with Density-dependent Viscosity

Abstract

The global existence of martingale solutions to the compressible Navier-Stokes equations driven by stochastic external forces, with density-dependent viscosity and vacuum, is established in this paper. This work can be regarded as a stochastic version of the deterministic Navier-Stokes equations \cite{Vasseur-Yu2016} (Vasseur-Yu, Invent. Math., 206:935--974, 2016.), in which the global existence of weak solutions was established for adiabatic exponent $\gamma > 1$. For the stochastic case, the regularity of density and velocity is even worse for passing the limit in nonlinear terms. We design a regularized system to approximate the original system. To make up for the lack of regularity of velocity, we need to add an artificial Rayleigh damping term besides the artificial viscosity and damping forces in \cite{Vasseur-Yu-q2016,Vasseur-Yu2016}. Moreover, we have to send the artificial terms to $0$ in a different order.