| Contents | 6 |
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| Preface | 12 |
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| Notation, Definitions, and Function Spaces | 17 |
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| 0.1 Notation | 17 |
| 0.2 Differential operators | 19 |
| 0.3 Function spaces | 20 |
| 0.4 Sobolev spaces | 25 |
| 0.5 Fourier transform | 30 |
| 0.6 Weak convergence of integrable functions | 33 |
| 0.7 Non-negative Borel measures | 34 |
| 0.8 Parametrized (Young) measures | 35 |
| Fluid Flow Modeling | 37 |
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| 1.1 Fluids in continuum mechanics | 38 |
| 1.2 Balance laws | 40 |
| 1.3 Field equations | 44 |
| 1.4 Constitutive relations | 49 |
| Weak Solutions, A Priori Estimates | 54 |
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| 2.1 Weak formulation | 56 |
| 2.2 A priori estimates | 60 |
| Existence Theory | 77 |
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| 3.1 Hypotheses | 78 |
| 3.2 Structural properties of constitutive functions | 81 |
| 3.3 Main existence result | 84 |
| 3.4 Solvability of the approximate system | 87 |
| 3.5 Faedo-Galerkin limit | 103 |
| 3.6 Artificial diffusion limit | 119 |
| 3.7 Vanishing artificial pressure | 138 |
| 3.8 Regularity properties of the weak solutions | 156 |
| Asymptotic Analysis – An Introduction | 161 |
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| 4.1 Scaling and scaled equations | 163 |
| 4.2 Low Mach number limits | 165 |
| 4.3 Strongly stratified flows | 167 |
| 4.4 Acoustic waves | 169 |
| 4.5 Acoustic analogies | 173 |
| 4.6 Initial data | 175 |
| 4.7 A general approach to singular limits for the full Navier- Stokes- Fourier system | 176 |
| Singular Limits – Low Stratification | 180 |
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| 5.1 Hypotheses and global existence for the primitive system | 183 |
| 5.2 Dissipation equation, uniform estimates | 186 |
| 5.3 Convergence | 193 |
| 5.4 Convergence of the convective term | 202 |
| 5.5 Conclusion – main result | 216 |
| Stratified Fluids | 227 |
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| 6.1 Motivation | 227 |
| 6.2 Primitive system | 228 |
| 6.3 Asymptotic limit | 233 |
| 6.4 Uniform estimates | 238 |
| 6.5 Convergence towards the target system | 246 |
| 6.6 Analysis of acoustic waves | 252 |
| 6.7 Asymptotic limit in entropy balance | 260 |
| Interaction of Acoustic Waves with Boundary | 263 |
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| 7.1 Problem formulation | 265 |
| 7.2 Main result | 268 |
| 7.3 Uniform estimates | 271 |
| 7.4 Analysis of acoustic waves | 273 |
| 7.5 Strong convergence of the velocity field | 285 |
| Problems on Large Domains | 293 |
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| 8.1 Primitive system | 293 |
| 8.2 Uniform estimates | 296 |
| 8.3 Acoustic equation | 300 |
| 8.4 Regularization and extension to | 303 |
| 8.5 Dispersive estimates and time decay of the acoustic waves | 309 |
| 8.6 Conclusion – main result | 314 |
| Acoustic Analogies | 316 |
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| 9.1 Asymptotic analysis and the limit system | 317 |
| 9.2 Acoustic equation revisited | 318 |
| 9.3 Two-scale convergence | 322 |
| 9.4 Lighthill’s acoustic analogy in the low Mach number regime | 327 |
| 9.5 Concluding remarks | 331 |
| Appendix | 333 |
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| 10.1 Mollifiers | 333 |
| 10.2 Basic properties of some elliptic operators | 334 |
| 10.3 Normal traces | 341 |
| 10.4 Singular and weakly singular operators | 344 |
| 10.5 The inverse of the div-operator ( Bogovskii’s formula) | 345 |
| 10.6 Helmholtz decomposition | 353 |
| 10.7 Function spaces of hydrodynamics | 355 |
| 10.8 Poincar ´ e type inequalities | 357 |
| 10.9 Korn type inequalities | 359 |
| 10.10 Estimating | 363 |
| u by means of | 363 |
| and curlxu | 363 |
| 10.11 Weak convergence and monotone functions | 364 |
| 10.12 Weak convergence and convex functions | 368 |
| 10.13 Div-Curl lemma | 371 |
| 10.14 Maximal regularity for parabolic equations | 373 |
| 10.15 Quasilinear parabolic equations | 375 |
| 10.16 Basic properties of the Riesz transform and related operators | 377 |
| 10.17 Commutators involving Riesz operators | 380 |
| 10.18 Renormalized solutions to the equation of continuity | 382 |
| Bibliographical Remarks | 389 |
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| 11.1 Fluid flow modeling | 389 |
| 11.2 Mathematical theory of weak solutions | 390 |
| 11.3 Existence theory | 391 |
| 11.4 Analysis of singular limits | 391 |
| 11.5 Propagation of acoustic waves | 392 |
| Bibliography | 393 |
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| Index | 406 |