Global existence and exponential stability for the compressible Navier-Stokes equations with discontinuous data

The initial boundary value problem for the compressible barotropic Navier-Stokes equations is investigated in the case that the initial density has a jump discontinuity across an interior closed curve in two-dimensional bounded domain. If the initial data is a small perturbation of the constant state and the interior closed curve is near a circle inside the domain, the global existence and large time behavior of the piecewise strong solution is shown, in particular, the jump of the fluid density across the convecting curve decays exponentially in time. (C) 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.