Passing to the limit in a Wasserstein gradient flow: from diffusion to reaction

DOI10.1007/S00526-011-0440-9zbMATH Open1270.35055arXiv1102.1202OpenAlexW3098850786WikidataQ59901831 ScholiaQ59901831MaRDI QIDQ425174FDOQ425174

Authors: Steffen Arnrich, Alexander Mielke, Giuseppe Savaré, Marco Veneroni, Mark A. Peletier 

Publication date: 7 June 2012

Published in: Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study a singular-limit problem arising in the modelling of chemical reactions. At finite {epsilon} > 0, the system is described by a Fokker-Planck convection-diffusion equation with a double-well convection potential. This potential is scaled by 1/{epsilon}, and in the limit {epsilon} -> 0, the solution concentrates onto the two wells, resulting into a limiting system that is a pair of ordinary differential equations for the density at the two wells. This convergence has been proved in Peletier, Savar'e, and Veneroni, SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis, 42(4):1805-1825, 2010, using the linear structure of the equation. In this paper we re-prove the result by using solely the Wasserstein gradient-flow structure of the system. In particular we make no use of the linearity, nor of the fact that it is a second-order system. The first key step in this approach is a reformulation of the equation as the minimization of an action functional that captures the property of being a curve of maximal slope in an integrated form. The second important step is a rescaling of space. Using only the Wasserstein gradient-flow structure, we prove that the sequence of rescaled solutions is pre-compact in an appropriate topology. We then prove a Gamma-convergence result for the functional in this topology, and we identify the limiting functional and the differential equation that it represents. A consequence of these results is that solutions of the {epsilon}-problem converge to a solution of the limiting problem.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.1202

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zbMATH Keywords

double-well convection potential

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Large deviations (60F10) Singular perturbations in context of PDEs (35B25) Homogenization in context of PDEs; PDEs in media with periodic structure (35B27) Initial-boundary value problems for second-order parabolic equations (35K20) Reaction-diffusion equations (35K57) Singular parabolic equations (35K67) Fokker-Planck equations (35Q84) General theory of infinite-dimensional dissipative dynamical systems, nonlinear semigroups, evolution equations (37L05) Variational methods for problems in mechanics (70G75) Problems involving a system of particles with friction (70F40)

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