Gas Flows with Several Thermal Nonequilibrium Modes |
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Authors: | Yanni Zeng |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Mathematics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 35294, USA
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Abstract: | We study gas flows with any finite number of thermal nonequilibrium modes. The equations describing such flows are a hyperbolic
system with several relaxation equations. An important feature is entropy increase dictated by physics for any irreversible
process. Under physical assumptions we obtain properties of thermodynamic variables relevant to stability. By the energy method
we prove global existence and uniqueness for the Cauchy problem when the initial data are small perturbations of constant
equilibrium states. We give a precise formulation of the fundamental solution for the linearized system, and use it to obtain
large time behavior of solutions to the nonlinear system. In particular, we show that the entropy increases but stays bounded.
The resulting asymptotic picture of nonequilibrium flows is in a pointwise sense both in space and in time. |
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