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Analysis of bulk-surface reaction-sorption-diffusion systems with Langmuir type adsorption

Analysis of PDEs 2023-03-16 v1

Abstract

We consider a class of bulk-surface reaction-adsorption-diffusion systems, i.e. a coupled systems of reaction-diffusion systems on a bounded domain ΩRd\Omega \subseteq \mathbb{R}^d (bulk phase) and its boundary Σ=Ω\Sigma = \partial \Omega (surface phase), which are coupled via nonlinear normal flux boundary conditions. In particular, this class includes a heterogeneous catalysis model with Fickian bulk and surface diffusion and nonlinear adsorption of Langmuir type, i.e. transport from the bulk phase to the active surface, and desorption. For this model, we obtain well-posedness, positivity and global-in-time existence of solutions under some realistic structural conditions on the chemical reaction network and the sorption model.

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@article{arxiv.2303.08479,
  title  = {Analysis of bulk-surface reaction-sorption-diffusion systems with Langmuir type adsorption},
  author = {Björn Augner and Dieter Bothe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.08479},
  year   = {2023}
}

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55 pages, no figures

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