Well-posedness for compressible Rayleigh-Bénard convection

Abstract

The Rayleigh-Bénard convection is a classical problem in fluid dynamics. In this paper, we are concerned with the well-posedness for the compressible Rayleigh-Bénard convection in a bounded domain Ω ⊂ ℝ². We prove the local well-posedness of the system with appropriate initial data. This is the result concerning compressible Rayleigh-Bénard convection, before only results about incompressible Rayleigh-Bénard convection were done.

Keywords

Compressible Rayleigh-Bénard convection / well-posedness / energy method

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