Boundary-layer phenomena for the cylindrically symmetric Navier–Stokes equations of compressible heat-conducting fluids with large data at vanishing shear viscosity.

This paper concerns the asymptotic behavior of the solution to an initial-boundary value problem of the cylindrically symmetric Navier–Stokes equations with large data for compressible heat-conducting ideal fluids, as the shear viscosity μ goes to zero. A suitable corrector function (the so-called boundary-layer type function) is constructed to eliminate the disparity of boundary values. As by-products, the convergence rates of the derivatives in L2 are obtained and the boundary-layer thickness (BL-thickness) of the value with is shown by an alternative method, compared with the results proved in Jiang and Zhang (2009 SIAM J. Math. Anal. 41 237–68) and Qin et al (2015 Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 216 1049–86). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]