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On the relaxation towards mechanical equilibrium for two-pressure compressible flows

Analysis of PDEs 2026-02-03 v1

Abstract

We introduce a symmetrization of a one-velocity two-pressures Baer-Nunziato type model for mixtures of barotropic compressible fluids. It allows us to justify the zero compaction viscosity limit and to recover a solution of the so-called Kapila model. On the other hand, the symmetrization highlights a pressure-induced stabilization mechanism which allows us to recover a global-in-time existence result for initial data close to constant states.

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@article{arxiv.2602.01890,
  title  = {On the relaxation towards mechanical equilibrium for two-pressure compressible flows},
  author = {Cosmin Burtea and Timothée Crin-Barat and Pierre Gonin--Joubert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.01890},
  year   = {2026}
}