We consider the compressible isentropic Euler equations on
with a
pressure law
,
where
.
This includes all physically relevant cases, e.g., the monoatomic gas.
We investigate under what conditions on its regularity a weak solution
conserves the energy. Previous results have crucially assumed that
in the range of the density; however, for realistic pressure laws this means
that we must exclude the vacuum case. Here we improve these results by
giving a number of sufficient conditions for the conservation of energy, even
for solutions that may exhibit vacuum: firstly, by assuming the velocity to
be a divergence-measure field; secondly, imposing extra integrability on
near a vacuum;
thirdly, assuming
to be quasinearly subharmonic near a vacuum; and finally, by assuming that
and
are Hölder
continuous. We then extend these results to show global energy conservation for the
domain where
is bounded
with a
boundary. We show that we can extend these results to the compressible
Navier–Stokes equations, even with degenerate viscosity.