Porous medium equation and cross-diffusion systems as limit of nonlocal interaction

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Abstract: This paper studies the derivation of the quadratic porous medium equation and a class of cross-diffusion systems from nonlocal interactions. We prove convergence of solutions of a nonlocal interaction equation, resp. system, to solutions of the quadratic porous medium equation, resp. cross-diffusion system, in the limit of a localising interaction kernel. The analysis is carried out at the level of the (nonlocal) partial differential equations and we use gradient flow techniques to derive bounds on energy, second order moments, and logarithmic entropy. The dissipation of the latter yields sufficient regularity to obtain compactness results and pass to the limit in the localised convolutions. The strategy we propose relies on a discretisation scheme, which can be slightly modified in order to extend our result to PDEs without gradient flow structure. In particular, it does not require convexity of the associated energies. Our analysis allows to treat the case of limiting weak solutions of the non-viscous porous medium equation at relevant low regularity, assuming the initial value to have finite energy and entropy.


In this paper under review, the authors consider the derivation of the quadratic porous medium equation and a class of cross-diffusion systems from nonlocal interactions. The authors prove convergence of solutions of a nonlocal interaction equation, resp. system, to solutions of the quadratic porous medium equation, resp. cross-diffusion system, in the limit of a localising interaction kernel. Their strategy depends on a discretisation scheme which can be applied to PDEs without gradient flow structure. Their analysis allows to treat the case of limiting weak solutions of the non-viscous porous medium equation at relevant low regularity, assuming the initial value to have finite energy and entropy.



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