A survey on Fourier analysis methods for solving the compressible Navier-Stokes equations

Abstract: Fourier analysis methods and in particular techniques based on Littlewood-Paley decomposition and paraproduct have known a growing interest recently for the study of nonlinear evolutionary equations. In this survey paper, we explain how these methods may be implemented so as to study the compresible Navier-Stokes equations in the whole space. We shall investigate both the initial value problem in critical Besov spaces and the low Mach number asymptotics.