Steady Prandtl Layer for Compressible Fluids

Abstract

Despite its importance, there have been few PDE results to investigate Prandtl layers for compressible fluids, in which the thermal boundary layer for the temperature field interacts with the classical velocity Prandtl boundary layer in a strong nonlinear fashion. We establish local-in-$x$ well-posedness of Prandtl layers for steady compressible fluids and construct Prandtl layer expansion in strong Sobolev norms, a foundation for the validity of Prandtl layer theory \cite{Guo-Wang}. Our method is based on a combination of the recent quotient estimate for the velocity field and an introduction of a pseudo entropy estimate for the temperature field.