Free boundary value problem for the radial symmetric compressible isentropic Navier-Stokes equations with density-dependent viscosity

This paper is devoted to the study of free-boundary-value problem of the compressible Naiver-Stokes system with density-dependent viscosities μ=const>0,λ=ρ^β which was first introduced by Vaigant-Kazhikhov {1995 Vaigant-Kazhikhov-SMJ} in 1995. By assuming the endpoint case β=1 in the radially spherical symmetric setting, we prove the (a priori) expanding rate of the free boundary is algebraic for multi-dimensional flow, and particularly establish the global existence of strong solution of the two-dimensional system for any large initial data. This also improves the previous work of Li-Zhang {2016 Li-Zhang-JDE} where they proved the similar result for β>1. The main ingredients of this article is making full use of the geometric advantange of domain as well as the critical space dimension two.