Properties of an aggregated quasi-gasdynamic system of equations for a homogeneous gas mixture (Q2121839)

The authors study an aggregated quasi-gas dynamic system for a homogeneous multicomponent gas mixture in the absence of chemical reactions. The components are perfect polytropic gases. The equations are the conservation laws for the component masses, total momentum, and total energy. An entropy balance equation with nonnegative entropy production in the presence of diffusion fluxes between the components is presented. The authors study the existence, uniqueness, and \(L^2\)-dissipativity of weak solutions to a linearized (near the constant solution) initial-boundary value problem. The Petrovskii parabolicity and the local-in-time classical solvability and uniqueness of the solution of the Cauchy problem for the original system are proved.