Onsager’s Energy Conservation of Weak Solutions for a Compressible and Inviscid Fluid

Abstract

In this article, two classes of sufficient conditions of weak solutions are given to guarantee the energy conservation of the compressible Euler equations. Our strategy is to introduce a test function φ(t)vϵ to derive the total energy. The velocity field v needs to be regularized both in time and space. In contrast to the noncompressible Euler equations, the compressible flows we consider here do not have a divergence-free structure. Therefore, it is necessary to make an additional estimate of the pressure p, which takes advantage of an appropriate commutator. In addition, by using the weak convergence, we show that the energy equality is conserved in a point-wise sense.

Keywords

• conservation of energy
• the isentropic compressible Euler equations
• commutator estimate
• regularity of the solutions