The one-dimensional Darcy's law as the limit of a compressible Euler flow (Q752322)

The authors study the singular convergence of solutions to a damped compressible Euler flow in one space dimension, with a polytropic equation of state, when the inertial terms tend to zero in a suitable rescaling. More precisely, they consider for all \(\epsilon >0\) the system of equations \[ \rho^{\epsilon}_ t+(\rho^{\epsilon}u^{\epsilon})_ x=0;\quad \epsilon (\rho^{\epsilon}u^{\epsilon})_ t+(\epsilon \rho^{\epsilon}(u^{\epsilon})^ 2+p^{\epsilon})_ x=- ku^{\epsilon}, \] \[ p^{\epsilon}=p(\rho^{\epsilon})=c(\rho^{\epsilon})^{\gamma};\quad \rho^{\epsilon}(x,0)=\rho_ 0(x)\geq 0,\quad u^{\epsilon}(x,0)=u_ 0(x), \] where \(k>0\), \(c>0\), \(\rho\) is the density, u the Eulerian velocity and \(\gamma\) is the adiabatic exponent, that is, \(\gamma =1+2/n\), n denoting the number of degrees of freedom of the molecules (n\(\geq 3).\) They show that there exists limit functions \(\rho\) and u such that, as \(\epsilon\downarrow 0\), \(\rho^{\epsilon}\to \rho\) in \(L^ p_{loc}\), \(u^{\epsilon}\to u\) in \(L^ 2\) weak and \(\sqrt{\epsilon}u^{\epsilon}\to 0\) in \(L^ p_{loc}\), for all \(p\in (1,\infty)\). Moreover, \(\rho\) satisfies, in the sense of distributions, Darcy's law so that \(\rho\) is a weak solution of a porous media equation.