The boundedness-by-entropy method for cross-diffusion systems

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DOI10.1088/0951-7715/28/6/1963zbMATH Open1326.35175arXiv1403.5419OpenAlexW3103765102MaRDI QIDQ5264479FDOQ5264479

Ansgar Jüngel

Publication date: 27 July 2015

Published in: Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A novel principle is presented which allows for the proof of bounded weak solutions to a class of physically relevant, strongly coupled parabolic systems exhibiting a formal gradient-flow structure. The main feature of these systems is that the diffusion matrix may be generally neither symmetric nor positive semi-definite. The key idea of the principle is to employ a transformation of variables, determined by the entropy density, which is defined by the gradient-flow formulation. The transformation yields at the same time a positive semi-definite diffusion matrix, suitable gradient estimates as well as lower and/or upper bounds of the solutions. These bounds are a consequence of the transformation of variables and are obtained without the use of a maximum principle. Several classes of cross-diffusion systems are identified which can be solved by this technique. The systems are formally derived from continuous-time random walks on a lattice modeling, for instance, the motion of ions, cells, or fluid particles.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.5419






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