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Nonlinear Analysis 149 (2017) 41–55 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Nonlinear Analysis /locate/na Stability of contact discontinuity for 1-D compressible viscous micropolar fluid model Qingqing Liua, Haiyan Yinb,? a School of Mathematics, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510641, PR China b School of Mathematical Sciences, Huaqiao University, Quanzhou 362021, PR China article info Article history: Received 24 June 2016 Accepted 13 October 2016 Communicated by Enzo Mitidieri Keywords: Micropolar fluid model Contact discontinuity Stability abstract This paper is concerned with a one-dimensional compressible micropolar fluid model with initial data whose behaviors at far fields x → ±∞ are different. Motivated by the relationship between micropolar fluid model and Navier–Stokes system, we can prove that the solutions to the one-dimensional compressible micropolar fluid model tend time-asymptotically to a viscous contact wave which is constructed from a contact discontinuity solution of the Riemann problem on Euler system. This result is proved by an elaborate elementary energy estimates. ? 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. 1. Introduction 1.1. The problem The model of micropolar fluids, introduced by Eringen [11], has received considerable attention in the last two decades. It can describe many phenomena appeared in a large number of complex fluids such as the suspensions, animal blood, liquid crystals which cannot be characterized appropriately by Navier–Stokes system. For more background, we refer to [12,20] and references therein. Let v, u, ω and θ denote, respectively, the specific volume, velocity, microrotation velocity and temperature of the fluid in the Lagrangian coordinates. Then the problem we consider has the formulation as follows [29] ??tv ? ?xu = 0, ? ? ? ????tu ? ? + K ?x ? θ v ? = ?x ? ?xu v ? , ? ??tω ? ? = A ? ?x ? ?xω v ? ? ? vω , ? ? ? ????tθ + θ K v ?xu = (?xu)2 v + (?xω)2 v + vω2 + D?x ? ?xθ ? , v (1.1) where (x, t)