Hydrodynamics of porous medium model with slow reservoirs (Q2183158)

A porous medium which is placed in contact with reservoirs is studied, and the corresponding flow equations and boundary conditions are obtained. The method given in [\textit{M. Z. Guo} et al., Commun. Math. Phys. 118, No. 1, 31--59 (1988; Zbl 0652.60107)] is improved and used in the case of blocked configurations. The main contribution of this article is to derive (for the first time, as the authors state) the hydrodynamic limit for the porous medium model with slow reservoirs. This porous medium model is considered as an exclusion process with dynamical constraints. The boundary conditions are obtained as the hydrodynamic limit of an underlying microscopic random dynamics. Depending on the rate intensity of the reservoir dynamics, three basic boundary conditions are obtained: Neumann, Dirichlet and Robin. The Robin case is solved by improving the arguments of \textit{J. Filo} [Math. Slovaca 38, No. 3, 273--296 (1988; Zbl 0664.35049)] for the considered particular case, and all details are highlighted. Some very interesting open problems are mentioned in the last part of the introduction. Basic energy estimates are obtained in Section 6 and used in the last section, for proving the uniqueness of the weak solutions of each of the obtained hydrodynamic equations.