摘要
In this paper, we proved the local energy decay and some - decay properties of solutions to the initial-boundary value problem for the Stokes equations of compressible viscous fluid flow in a 2-dimensional exterior domain. Kobayashi (1997) and Kobayashi and Shibata (1999) treated the same problem in a 3-dimensional exterior domain, and our results obtained in this paper are an extension of results in Kobayashi (1997) and Kobayashi and Shibata (1999) to the 2-dimensional case. The fundamental solution to the resolvent equations for the Stokes equations in has a logarithmical singularity at , 位 being a resolvent parameter, while it is continuous up to in . This difference requires us a new idea to prove the local energy decay estimate. Once getting the local energy decay estimate, the required - decay estimates in the exterior domain are obtained by combining the local energy estimate and the - estimates in by a cut-off technique.