WIAS Preprint No. 2321, (2016)

Analysis of improved Nernst--Planck--Poisson models of isothermal compressible electrolytes subject to chemical reactions: The case of a degenerate mobility matrix



Authors

  • Druet, Pierre-Étienne
    ORCID: 0000-0001-5303-0500

2010 Mathematics Subject Classification

  • 35Q35 76T30 78A57 35Q30 76N10 35M33 35D30 35B45

Keywords

  • Electrolyte, electrochemical interface, chemical reaction, compressible fluid, Navier-Stokes equations, advection-diffusion-reaction equations, PDE system of mixed-type, a-priori estimates, weak solution

DOI

10.20347/WIAS.PREPRINT.2321

Abstract

We continue our investigations of the improved Nernst-Planck-Poisson model introduced by Dreyer, Guhlke and Müller 2013. In the paper by Dreyer, Druet, Gajewski and Guhlke 2016, the analysis relies on the hypothesis that the mobility matrix has maximal rank under the constraint of mass conservation (rank N-1 for the mixture of N species). In this paper we allow for the case that the positive eigenvalues of the mobility matrix tend to zero along with the partial mass densities of certain species. In this approach the mobility matrix has a variable rank between zero and N-1 according to the number of locally available species. We set up a concept of weak solution able to deal with this scenario, showing in particular how to extend the fundamental notion of emphdifferences of chemical potentials that supports the modelling and the analysis in Dreyer, Druet, Gajewski and Guhlke 2016. We prove the global-in-time existence in this solution class.

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