Remarks on one-dimensional Compressible Navier-Stokes equations with density-dependent viscosity and vacuum

The Navier-Stokes system for one-dimensional compressible fluids with density-dependent viscosities when the initial density connects to vacuum continuously is considered in the present paper. When the viscosity coefficient µ is proportional to ρθ with 0 < θ < 1, the global existence and the uniqueness of weak solutions are proved which improves the previous results in [Vong, S. W., Yang, T., Zhu, C. J.: Compressible Navier-Stokes equations with degenerate viscosity coefficient and vacuum II. J. Differential Equations, 192(2), 475–501 (2003)]. Here ρ is the density. Moreover, a stabilization rate estimate for the density as t → +∞ for any θ > 0 is also given.