Hydrodynamics of porous medium model with slow reservoirs

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Abstract: We analyze the hydrodynamic behavior of the porous medium model in a discrete space 0,ldots,n, where the sites 0 and n stand for reservoirs. Our strategy relies on the entropy method of Guo, Papanicolau and Varadhan. However, this method cannot be straightforwardly applied, since there are configurations that do not evolve according to the dynamics (blocked configurations). In order to avoid this problem, we slightly perturbed the dynamics in such a way that the macroscopic behavior of the system keeps following the porous medium equation, but with boundary conditions which depend on the reservoirs strength's.


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.











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