Large-time behavior for spherically symmetric flow of viscous polytropic gas in exterior unbounded domain with large initial data

Abstract: This paper deals with the spherically symmetric flow of compressible viscous and polytropic ideal fluid in unbounded domain exterior to a ball in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with $n\ge2$. We show that the global solutions are convergent as time goes to infinity. The critical step is obtaining the point-wise bound of the specific volume $v(x,t)$ and the absolute temperature $\theta(x,t)$ from up and below both for $x$ and $t$. Note that the initial data can be arbitrarily large and, compared with \cite{nn}, our method applies to the spatial dimension $n=2.$ The proof is based on the elementary energy methods.