Global Existence in Critical Spaces¶for Flows of Compressible¶Viscous and Heat-Conductive Gases

Abstract

We are concerned with global existence and uniqueness of strong solutions for a general model of viscous and heat-conductive gases. The initial data are supposed to be close to a stable equilibrium with constant density and temperature. Using uniform estimates for the linearized system with a convection term, we get global well-posedness in a functional setting invariant with respect to the scaling of the associated equations (in space dimension N≧3). We also show a smoothing effect on the velocity and the temperature, and a decay on the difference between the density and the constant reference state. These results extend a previous paper devoted to the barotropic case (see [5]).