Special Session 15: On the dynamics of hyperbolic partial differential equations: theory and applications

Cahn-Hillard and Keller-Segel systems as high-friction limits of gas dynamics

Agnieszka Swierczewska-Gwiazda
University of Warsaw
Poland
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Abstract:
Several recent studies considered the high-friction limit for systems arising in fluid mechanics. Following this approach, we rigorously derive the nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equation as a limit of the nonlocal Euler-Korteweg equation using the relative entropy method. Applying the recent result about relations between non-local and local Cahn-Hilliard, we also derive rigorously the large-friction nonlocal- to-local limit. The result is formulated for dissipative measure-valued solutions of the nonlocal Euler-Korteweg equation which are known to exist on arbitrary intervals of time. This approach provides a new method to derive equations not enjoying classical solutions via relative entropy method by introducing the nonlocal effect in the fluid equation. During the talk I will also discuss the high-friction limit of the Euler-Poisson system.