Asymptotic stability of composite waves of viscous shock and rarefaction for relaxed compressible Navier-Stokes equations

Abstract

The time asymptotic stability for one-dimensional relaxed compressible Navier-Stokes equations is studied. We show that the composite waves of viscous shock and rarefaction are asymptotically nonlinear stable with both small wave strength and small initial perturbations. Moreover, as the relaxation parameter goes to zero, the solutions of relaxed system are shown to converge globally in time to that of classical system. The methods are based on relative entropy, the a-contraction with shifts theory and basic energy estimates.