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Fick's las selects the Neumann boundary condition

Analysis of PDEs 2023-08-11 v2

Abstract

We study the appearance of a boundary condition along an interface between two regions, one with constant diffusivity 11 and the other with diffusivity \eps>0\eps>0, when \eps0\eps\to0. In particular, we take Fick's diffusion law in a context of reaction-diffusion equation with bistable nonlinearity and show that the limit of the reaction-diffusion equation satisfies the homogeneous Neumann boundary condition along the interface. This problem is developed as an application of heterogeneous diffusion laws to study the geometry effect of domain.

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@article{arxiv.2308.00321,
  title  = {Fick's las selects the Neumann boundary condition},
  author = {Danielle Hilhorst and Seung-Min Kang and Ho-Youn Kim and Yong-Jung Kim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.00321},
  year   = {2023}
}

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22 pages, 5 figures

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