Large Time Behavior for a SimplifiedN-Dimensional Model of Fluid–Solid Interaction

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The authors offer in the title: ``\dots simplified\dots model of fluid-solid interaction. It is a sequel to [\textit{J. L. Vázquez} and \textit{E. Zuazua}, ibid. 28, No. 9--10, 1705--1739 (2003; Zbl 1071.74017)]. One could argue with this description of the article's contents. Simplified means that the pressure gradient and the truly trouble some term of Navier-Stokes equation: \(u\nabla u\) are ignored. However pressure enters into the computation of the stress tensor of the fluid. As a result of this simplification the authors deal with a fluid obeying the classical diffusion (or heat transfer) equation interacting with a ball-shaped particle of mass \(m\). There is a justification of their simplification. It has been shown that in an important class of nonlinear systems the first approximation using the heat kernel offers reasonable results. Thus the authors study a system of equations consisting of a classical heat equation coupled with an ordinary differential equation of Isaac Newton: \(f= ma\), where total force of the fluid's stress tensor (or rather of its normal component) is acting on the particle. The reviewer has high praise for the authors' systematic and very careful development of the theory of ``large time, i.e. the asymptotic behavior of this system. Existence and uniqueness are assumed, since the proof would be a repetition of the earlier result of \textit{J. L. Vázquez} and \textit{E. Zuazua} (loc. cit.), given for the one-dimensional case. Computation of asymptotic expansion terms for the path of the trajectory of the solid particle takes up most of the remaining pages of this article. It contains a tedious and rather difficult analysis of the first and second term of the asymptotic expansion.











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