Compression effects in heterogeneous media (Q2423227)

The authors study the compression effects in heterogeneous media with maximal packing constraint. In the literature there are two different approaches, hard congestion system and soft congestion system, to model congestion phenomena. The main purpose of the paper is to characterize the respective effects of singular pressure and bulk viscosity close to the maximal density constrain in order to understand when memory and pressure effects are activated on the limit hard congestion system. So the authors consider a three-dimensional soft congestion system (based on compressible Brinkman equations) with singular pressure and singular bulk viscosity, and prove that, as a parameter \(\varepsilon\) (which measure effects close to the maximal packing value) go to zero, a subsequence of the global weak solution converge to global weal solutions of the two-phase compressible/incompressible Brinkman equations.