Asymptotic Stability of 3D Out-flowing Compressible Viscous Fluid under Non-Spherical Perturbation

Abstract: We study an outflow problem for the $3$-dimensional isentropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations. The fluid under consideration occupies the exterior domain of unit ball, $\Omega={x\in\mathbb{R}^3\,\vert\, |x|\ge 1}$, and it is flowing out from $\Omega$ at a constant speed $|u_b|$, in the normal direction to the boundary surface $\partial\Omega$. It is shown in Hashimoto-Matsumura(2021) that if the fluid velocity at the far-field is assumed to be zero, and $|u_b|$ is sufficiently small, then there exists a unique spherically symmetric stationary solution $(\tilde{\rho},\tilde{u})(x)$. In this paper, we prove that $(\tilde{\rho},\tilde{u})(x)$ is asymptotically stable in time, under small, possibly non-spherically symmetric initial perturbations.