Some asymptotic limits of reaction–diffusion systems appearing in reversible chemistry

This paper concerns reaction–diffusion systems consisting of three or four equations, which come out of reversible chemistry. We introduce different scalings for those systems, which make sense in various situations (species with very different concentrations or very different diffusion rates, chemical reactions with very different rates, etc.). We show how recently introduced mathematical tools allow to prove that the formal asymptotics associated to those scalings indeed hold at the rigorous level.     

Asymptotic behavior of degenerate linear transport equations

We study in this paper a few simple examples of hypocoercive systems in which the coercive part is degenerate. We prove that the (completely explicit) speed of convergence is at least of inverse power type (the power depending on the features of the considered system).     

Entropy dissipation rate and convergence in kinetic equations

We give a lower bound of the entropy dissipation rate of Ka, Boltzmann and Fokker-Planck-Landau equations. We apply this estimate to the problem of the speed of convergence to equilibrium in large time for the Boltzmann equation.     

Existence and regularity for a chemotaxis model involved in the modeling of multiple sclerosis

We study in this work the global existence of solutions to a system of reaction cross diffusion equations appearing in the modeling of multiple sclerosis, in the one-dimensional case. Weak solutions are obtained for general initial data, and existence, uniqueness, stability and smoothness are proven when initial data are smooth.

     

On the spatially homogeneous landau equation for hard potentials part i : existence,uniqueness and smoothness

We study the Cauchy problem for the homogeneous Landau equation of kinetic theory, in the case of hard potentials. We prove that for a large class of initial data, there exists a unique weak solution to this problem, which becomes immediately smooth and rapidly decaying at infinity.     

On the spatially homogeneous landau equation for hard potentials part ii : h-theorem and applications

We find a lower bound for the entropy dissipation of the spatially homogeneous Landau equation with hard potentials in terms of the entropy itself. We deduce from this explicit estimates on the speed of convergence towards equilibrium for the solution of this equation. In the case of so-called overmaxwellian potentials, the convergence is exponential. We also compute a lower bound for the spectral gap of the associated linear operator in this setting.     

Improved Duality Estimates and Applications to Reaction-Diffusion Equations

We present a refined duality estimate for parabolic equations. This estimate entails new results for systems of reaction-diffusion equations, including smoothness and exponential convergence towards equilibrium for equations with quadratic right-hand sides in two dimensions. For general systems in any space dimension, we obtain smooth solutions of reaction-diffusion systems coming out of reversible chemistry under an assumption that the diffusion coefficients are sufficiently close one to another.     

About the entropic structure of detailed balanced multi-species cross-diffusion equations

This paper links at the formal level the entropy structure of a multi-species cross-diffusion system of Shigesada–Kawasaki–Teramoto (SKT) type (cf. [1]) satisfying the detailed balance condition with the entropy structure of a reversible microscopic many-particle Markov process on a discretised space. The link is established by first performing a mean-field limit to a master equation over discretised space. Then the spatial discretisation limit is performed in a completely rigorous way. This by itself provides a novel strategy for proving global existence of weak solutions to a class of cross-diffusion systems.     

Some Aspects of the Asymptotics Leading from Gas-Particles Equations Towards Multiphase Flows Equations

This paper is devoted to the establishment at the formal level of a scaling leading from gas-particles (also called Eulerian-Lagrangian) models for monodisperse thick sprays towards multiphase flows models (also called Eulerian-Eulerian) including the volume fraction as an unknown. This passage to the limit involves the study of an inelastic collision operator acting on internal energies as well as velocities.     

On the Singularities of the Global Small Solutionsof the Full Boltzmann Equation

 We show how the singularities are propagated for the (spatially inhomogeneous) Boltzmann equation (with the usual angular cut-off of Grad) in the context of the small solutions first introduced by Kaniel and Shinbrot. (Received 16 November 1999; in revised form 21 June 2000)