Decay of solutions of isentropic gas dynamics for large data

Abstract

In this paper, we are concerned with the Cauchy problem for isentropic gas dynamics. Through the contribution of many researchers such as Lax, P. D., Glimm, J., DiPerna, R. J. and Liu, T. P., the decay of solutions was established. They treated with initial data with the small total variation. On the other hand, the decay for large initial data has been open for half a century. Our goal is to provide a new method to analyze this problem. We prove the existence of a global attractor, which yields a decay of solutions for large data. To construct approximate solutions, we introduce a modified Godunov scheme.