Positive Solutions to Singular Second and Third Order Differential Equations for Quantum Fluids |
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Authors: | Irene M Gamba Ansgar Jüngel |
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Institution: | Department of Mathematics, University of Texas?Austin, TX 78712, USA?e-mail: gamba@math.utexas.edu, US Fachbereich Mathematik, Technische Universit?t Berlin?Stra?e des 17. Juni 136, 10623 Berlin, Germany?e-mail: jungel@math.tu-berlin.de, DE
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Abstract: | We analyze a quantum trajectory model given by a steady-state hydrodynamic system for quantum fluids with positive constant
temperature in bounded domains for arbitrary large data. The momentum equation can be written as a dispersive third-order
equation for the particle density where viscous effects are incorporated. The phenomena that admit positivity of the solutions
are studied. The cases, one space dimensional dispersive or non-dispersive, viscous or non-viscous, are thoroughly analyzed
with respect to positivity and existence or non-existence of solutions, all depending on the constitutive relation for the
pressure law. We distinguish between isothermal (linear) and isentropic (power law) pressure functions of the density. It
is proved that in the dispersive, non-viscous model, a classical positive solution only exists for “small” (positive) particle
current densities, both for the isentropic and isothermal case. Uniqueness is also shown in the isentropic
subsonic case, when the pressure law is strictly convex. However, we prove that no weak isentropic solution can exist for
“large” current densities. The dispersive, viscous problem admits a classical positive solution for all current densities,
both for the isentropic and isothermal case, with an “ultra-diffusion” condition.
The proofs are based on a reformulation of the equations as a singular elliptic second-order problem and on a variant of the
Stampacchia truncation technique. Some of the results are extended to general third-order equations in any space dimension.
Accepted July 1, 2000?Published online February 14, 2001 |
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