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ArticleKAUST Department
Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) DivisionApplied Mathematics and Computational Science Program
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1000000193Date
2018-02-06Online Publication Date
2018-02-06Print Publication Date
2018-01Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/627362
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We derive thermodynamically consistent models of reaction-diffusion equations coupled to a heat equation. While the total energy is conserved, the total entropy serves as a driving functional such that the full coupled system is a gradient flow. The novelty of the approach is the Onsager structure, which is the dual form of a gradient system, and the formulation in terms of the densities and the internal energy. In these variables it is possible to assume that the entropy density is strictly concave such that there is a unique maximizer (thermodynamical equilibrium) given linear constraints on the total energy and suitable density constraints. We consider two particular systems of this type, namely, a diffusion-reaction bipolar energy transport system, and a drift-diffusion-reaction energy transport system with confining potential. We prove corresponding entropy-entropy production inequalities with explicitly calculable constants and establish the convergence to thermodynamical equilibrium, first in entropy and later in L norm using Cziszár–Kullback–Pinsker type inequalities.Citation
Haskovec J, Hittmeir S, Markowich P, Mielke A (2018) Decay to Equilibrium for Energy-Reaction-Diffusion Systems. SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis 50: 1037–1075. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1137/16M1062065.Sponsors
The work of the first and third authors was supported by KAUST baseline funds and grant 1000000193. The work of the second author was supported by the Austrian Science Fund via the Hertha-Firnberg project T-764, and the previous funding by the Austrian Academy of Sciences ÖAW via the New Frontiers project NST-000. The work of the fourth author was partially supported by Einstein-Stiftung Berlin through the Matheon-Project OT1.Additional Links
https://epubs.siam.org/doi/10.1137/16M1062065ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1137/16M1062065