Weak solutions for the Navier-Stokes system for a compressible fluid with non-isotropic viscous-stress tensor.

When dealing with PDEs arising in fluid mechanics, bounded-energy weaksolutions are, in many cases, the only type of solutions for which one can guarantee global existence without imposing any restrictions on the size of the initial data or forcing terms. Understanding how to construct such solutions is also crucial for designing stable numerical schemes.

In this talk, we will explain the strategy for contructing weak solutions for the Navier-Stokes system for viscous compressible flows, emphasizing the difficulties encountered in the case of non-isotropic viscous stress tensors. In particular, I will present some results obtained in collaboration with Didier Bresch and Maja Szlenk.