Inertial Manifolds and Gevrey Regularity for the Moore-Greitzer Model of an Axial-Flow Compressor

In this paper, we study the regularity and long-time behavior of the solutions to the Moore-Greitzer model of an axial-flow compressor. In particular, we prove that this dissipative system of evolution equations possesses a global invariant inertial manifold, and therefore its underlying long-time dynamics reduces to that of an ordinary differential system. Furthermore, we show that the solutions of this model belong to a Gevrey class of regularity (real analytic in the spatial variables). As a result, one can show the exponentially fast convergence of the Galerkin approximation method to the exact solution, an evidence of the reliability of the Galerkin method as a computational scheme in this case. The rigorous results presented here justify the readily available lowdimensional numerical experiments and control designs for stabilizing certain states and traveling wave solutions for this model.