Perturbative Cauchy theory for a flux-incompressible Maxwell-Stefan system

<p style='text-indent:20px;'>Recently, the authors proved [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="b2">2</xref>] that the Maxwell-Stefan system with an incompressibility-like condition on the total flux can be rigorously derived from the multi-species Boltzmann equation. Similar cross-diffusion models have been widely investigated, but the particular case of a perturbative incompressible setting around a non constant equilibrium state of the mixture (needed in [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="b2">2</xref>]) seems absent of the literature. We thus establish a quantitative perturbative Cauchy theory in Sobolev spaces for it. More precisely, by reducing the analysis of the Maxwell-Stefan system to the study of a quasilinear parabolic equation on the sole concentrations and with the use of a suitable anisotropic norm, we prove global existence and uniqueness of strong solutions and their exponential trend to equilibrium in a perturbative regime around any macroscopic equilibrium state of the mixture. As a by-product, we show that the equimolar diffusion condition naturally appears from this perturbative incompressible setting.</p>

On boundary optimal control of a coefficient in a nonlinear parabolic equation

Работа связана с изучением нелинейных параболических систем, возникающих при моделировании и управлении физико-химическими процессами, в которых происходят изменения внутренних свойств материалов. Исследовано оптимальное управление одной из таких систем, которая включает в себя краевую задачу третьего рода для квазилинейного параболического уравнения с неизвестным коэффициентом при производной по времени, а также уравнение изменения по времени этого коэффициента. Обоснована постановка оптимальной задачи с финальным наблюдением искомого коэффициента, в которой управлением является граничный режим на одной из границ области. Получено явное представление дифференциала минимизируемого функционала через решение сопряженной задачи. Доказаны условия ее однозначной разрешимости в классе гладких функций. Полученные результаты имеют практическое значение для приложений в различных технических областях, медицине, геологии и т.п. Приведены некоторые примеры таких приложений. The work is connected with investigation of nonlinear parabolic systems arising in the mathematical modeling and control of physical-chemical processes in which inner properties of materials are subjected to changes. We consider optimal control in one of such systems that involves a boundary value problem of the third kind for a quasilinear parabolic equation with an unknown coefficient at the time derivative and, moreover, an additional equation for a time dependence of this coefficient. The optimal problem with a boundary control regime is justified for the given final observation of the sought coefficient. The exact representation for the differential of the minimization functional in terms of the solutions of the conjugate problem is obtained. The form of this conjugate problem and conditions of unique solvability in a class of smooth functions are shown. The obtained results are important for applications in various technical fields, medicine, geology, etc. Some examples of such applications are discussed.

Blow-Up Results for a Class of Quasilinear Parabolic Equation with Power Nonlinearity and Nonlocal Source

This paper deals with a class of quasilinear parabolic equation with power nonlinearity and nonlocal source under homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition in a smooth bounded domain; we obtain the blow-up condition and blow-up results under the condition of nonpositive initial energy.

Extinction Phenomenon and Decay Estimate for a Quasilinear Parabolic Equation with a Nonlinear Source

By energy estimate approach and the method of upper and lower solutions, we give the conditions on the occurrence of the extinction and nonextinction behaviors of the solutions for a quasilinear parabolic equation with nonlinear source. Moreover, the decay estimates of the solutions are studied.