  We study the Navier--Stokes equations governing the motion of an isentropic
compressible fluid in three dimensions interacting with a flexible shell of
Koiter type. The latter one constitutes a moving part of the boundary of the
physical domain. Its deformation is modeled by a linearized version of Koiter's
elastic energy. We show the existence of weak solutions to the corresponding
system of PDEs provided the adiabatic exponent satisfies $\gamma>\frac{12}{7}$
($\gamma>1$ in two dimensions). The solution exists until the moving boundary
approaches a self-intersection. This provides a compressible counterpart of the
results in [D. Lengeler, M. \Ruzicka, Weak Solutions for an Incompressible
Newtonian Fluid Interacting with a Koiter Type Shell. Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal.
211 (2014), no. 1, 205--255] on incompressible Navier--Stokes equations.
