Abstract
We study the free boundary value problem for one-dimensional isentropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations with density-dependent viscosity coefficient in this paper. Under certain assumptions imposed on the initial data, we show that there exists a unique global strong solution, the interface separating the flow and vacuum state propagates along particle path and expands outwards at an algebraic time-rate, the flow density is strictly positive from blow for any finite time and decays pointwise to zero also at an algebraic time-rate as the time tends to infinity.
Acknowledgement
The authors thank the referee for the helpful comments and suggestions on the paper. The research of R.X. Lian is supported by NNSFC No.11101145.