Uniform boundedness of the radially symmetric solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations for isentropic compressible fluids

Abstract

We study the isentropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations with radially symmetric data and non-negative initial density in an annular domain. We prove the global existence of strong solutions for any $\gamma\geq 1$. Moreover, we obtain the uniform in time $L^{\infty}$-boundedness of the density and $H^{1}$-boundedness of the velocity, improving therefore the corresponding result in [2], where the condition $\gamma\geq 2$ is required to guarantee the existence.