WIAS Preprint No. 2700, (2020)

A theory of generalised solutions for ideal gas mixtures with Maxwell--Stefan diffusion



Authors

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

2010 Mathematics Subject Classification

  • 35M33 35Q30 76N10 35D30 35Q35 35Q79 76R50

Keywords

  • Multicomponent flow, ideal mixture, compressible fluid, diffusion, system of mixed-type, global-in-time existence, weak solutions, transport coefficients

DOI

10.20347/WIAS.PREPRINT.2700

Abstract

After the pioneering work by Giovangigli on mathematics of multicomponent flows, several attempts were made to introduce global weak solutions for the PDEs describing the dynamics of fluid mixtures. While the incompressible case with constant density was enlighted well enough due to results by Chen and Jüngel (isothermal case), or Marion and Temam, some open questions remain for the weak solution theory of gas mixtures with their corresponding equations of mixed parabolic-hyperbolic type. For instance, Mucha, Pokorny and Zatorska showed the possibility to stabilise the hyperbolic component by means of the Bresch-Desjardins technique and a regularisation of pressure preventing vacuum. The result by Dreyer, Druet, Gajewski and Guhlke avoids emphex machina stabilisations, but the mathematical assumption that the Onsager matrix is uniformly positive on certain subspaces leads, in the dilute limit, to infinite diffusion velocities which are not compatible with the Maxwell-Stefan form of diffusion fluxes. In this paper, we prove the existence of global weak solutions for isothermal and ideal compressible mixtures with natural diffusion. The main new tool is an asymptotic condition imposed at low pressure on the binary Maxwell-Stefan diffusivities, which compensates possibly extreme behaviour of weak solutions in the rarefied regime.

Appeared in

  • Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. Ser. S, 14 (2021), pp. 4035--4067(published online in Nov 2020), DOI 10.3934/dcdss.2020458 .

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