Related papers: Cross-diffusion systems with entropy structure
The generalized entropic measure, which is optimized by a given arbitrary distribution under the constraints on normalization of the distribution and the finite ordinary expectation value of a physical random quantity, is considered and its…
General conditions are established under which reaction-cross-diffusion systems can undergo spatiotemporal pattern-forming instabilities. Recent work has focused on designing systems theoretically and experimentally to exhibit patterns with…
We study the boundedness and convergence to equilibrium of weak solutions to reaction-diffusion systems with nonlinear diffusion. The nonlinear diffusion is of porous medium type and the nonlinear reaction terms are assumed to grow…
We establish the global existence of weak solutions to a nonlinear kinetic Fokker--Planck equation with degenerate diffusion, under either inflow or partial absorption-reflection boundary conditions. The novelty of our approach lies in…
This paper presents an {\it ab initio} derivation of the expression given by irreversible thermodynamics for the rate of entropy production for different classes of diffusive processes. The first class are Lorentz gases, where…
This work introduces a new class of cross-diffusion systems for studying overcrowding dispersal of two species. The approach, based on proximal minimization energy through a minimum flow process, offers a potential generalization of…
We demonstrate that in the space of distributions operated on by lattice Boltzmann methods that there exists a vicinity of the equilibrium where collisions with entropy balance are possible and, at the same time, there exist an area of…
We mainly study global in-time asymptotic behavior for the nonlocal reaction-diffusion system with fractional Laplacians which models dispersal of individuals between two exchanging environments for its diffusive components and incorporates…
We establish certain maximum principles for a class of strongly coupled elliptic (or cross diffusion) systems of $m\ge2$ equations. The reaction parts can be non cooperative. These new results will be crucial in obtaining coexistence and…
A Maxwell-Stefan system for fluid mixtures with driving forces depending on Cahn-Hilliard-type chemical potentials is analyzed. The corresponding parabolic cross-diffusion equations contain fourth-order derivatives and are considered in a…
As an extension of our previous work in Sun et.al (2018) [41], we develop a discontinuous Galerkin method for solving cross-diffusion systems with a formal gradient flow structure. These systems are associated with non-increasing entropy…
We investigate a system describing the flow of a compressible two-component mixture. The system is composed of the compressible Navier-Stokes equations coupled with non-symmetric reaction-diffusion equations describing the evolution of…
We prove the existence of global weak entropy solutions for a class of non-symmetric Keyfitz-Kranzer type systems that includes lubrication models for thin-film flow. We identify a family of entropy/entropy-flux pairs for these first-order…
In the presence of vacuum, the physical entropy for polytropic gases behaves singularly and it is thus a challenge to study its dynamics. It is shown in this paper that the boundedness of the entropy can be propagated up to any finite time…
Bounded weak solutions are constructed for a degenerate parabolic system with a full diffusion matrix, which is a generalized version of the thin film Muskat system. Boundedness is achieved with the help of a sequence $(\mathcal{E}_n)_{n\ge…
An implicit Euler finite-volume scheme for an $n$-species population cross-diffusion system of Shigesada--Kawasaki--Teramoto-type in a bounded domain with no-flux boundary conditions is proposed and analyzed. The scheme preserves the formal…
We consider a generic system composed of a fixed number of particles distributed over a finite number of energy levels. We make only general assumptions about system's properties and the entropy. System's constraints other than fixed number…
We consider some cross diffusion systems which is inspired by models in mathematical biology/ecology, in particular the Shigesada-Kawasaki-Teramoto (SKT) model in population biology. We establish the global existence of strong solutions to…
Relating thermodynamic and kinetic properties is a conceptual challenge with many practical benefits. Here, based on first principles, we derive a rigorous inequality relating the entropy and the dynamic propagator of particle…
The quantitative convergence to equilibrium for reaction-diffusion systems arising from complex balanced chemical reaction networks with mass action kinetics is studied by using the so-called entropy method. In the first part of the paper,…