On the existence of L^2-valued thermodynamic entropy solutions for a hyperbolic system with boundary conditions

DOI10.1080/03605302.2020.1750426MaRDI QIDQ5124550zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stefano Marchesani, Stefano Olla

Publication date 29 September 2020

Published in Communications in Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.05300

zbMATH Keywords

Clausius inequalitycompensated compactnessentropy solutionsquasilinear hyperbolic conservation lawsquasilinear wave equationvanishing viscosity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Viscosity solutions to PDEs (35D40) Initial-boundary value problems for first-order hyperbolic systems (35L50) First-order nonlinear hyperbolic equations (35L60) Hyperbolic conservation laws (35L65)

Abstract: We prove existence of $L^2$-weak solutions of a quasilinear wave equation with boundary conditions. This describes the isothermal evolution of a one dimensional non-linear elastic material, attached to a fixed point on one side and subject to a force (tension) applied to the other side. The $L^2$-valued solutions appear naturally when studying the hydrodynamic limit from a microscopic dynamics of a chain of anharmonic springs connected to a thermal bath. The proof of the existence is done using a vanishing viscosity approximation with extra Neumann boundary conditions added. In this setting we obtain a uniform a priori estimate in $L^2$, allowing us to use $L^2$ Young measures, together with the classical tools of compensated compactness. We then prove that the viscous solutions converge to weak solutions of the quasilinear wave equation strongly in $L^p$, for any $pin[1,2)$, that satisfy, in a weak sense, the boundary conditions. Furthermore, these solutions satisfy the Clausius inequality: the change of the free energy is bounded by the work done by the boundary tension. In this sense they are the correct thermodynamic solutions, and we conjecture their uniqueness.

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