On global solutions to a viscous compressible two-fluid model with unconstrained transition to single-phase flow in three dimensions

Abstract: We consider the Dirichlet problem for a compressible two-fluid model in three dimensions, and obtain the global existence of weak solution with large initial data and independent adiabatic constants \Gamma,\gamma>=9/5. The pressure functions are of two components solving the continuity equations. Two typical cases for the pressure are considered, which are motivated by the compressible two-fluid model with possibly unequal velocities [3] and by a limiting system from the Vlasov-Fokker-Planck/compressible Navier-Stokes system 27. The lack of enough regularity for the two densities turns out some essential difficulties in the two-component pressure compared with the single-phase model, i.e., compressible Navier-Stokes equations. In this paper, the global existence theory does not require any domination conditions for the initial densities, which implies that transition to each single-phase flow is allowed.