Existence of Large Boundary Layer Solutions to Inflow Problem of 1D Full Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations

Abstract: We present the existence/non-existence criteria for large-amplitude boundary layer solutions to the inflow problem of the one-dimensional (1D) full compressible Navier-Stokes equations on a half line $\mathbb{R}_+$. Instead of the classical center manifold approach for the existence of small-amplitude boundary layer solutions in the previous results, the delicate global phase plane analysis, based on the qualitative theory of ODEs, is utilized to obtain the sufficient and necessary conditions for the existence/non-existence of large boundary layer solutions to the half-space inflow problem when the right end state belongs to the supersonic, transonic, and subsonic regions, respectively, which completely answers the existence/non-existence of boundary layer solutions to the half-space inflow problem of 1D full compressible Navier-Stokes equations.