WIAS Preprint No. 2233, (2016)

Decay to equilibrium for energy-reaction-diffusion systems



Authors

  • Haskovec, Jan
  • Hittmeir, Sabine
  • Markowich, Peter
  • Mielke, Alexander
    ORCID: 0000-0002-4583-3888

2010 Mathematics Subject Classification

  • 35K57 35B40 35Q79

Keywords

  • Energy-reaction-diffusion systems, entropy functional, dissipation functional, log-Sobolev inequality, entropy entropy-production balance

DOI

10.20347/WIAS.PREPRINT.2233

Abstract

We derive thermodynamically consistent models of reaction-diffusion equations coupled to a heat equation. While the total energy is conserved, the total entropy serves as a driving functional such that the full coupled system is a gradient flow. The novelty of the approach is the Onsager structure, which is the dual form of a gradient system, and the formulation in terms of the densities and the internal energy. In these variables it is possible to assume that the entropy density is strictly concave such that there is a unique maximizer (thermodynamical equilibrium) given linear constraints on the total energy and suitable density constraints. We consider two particular systems of this type, namely, a diffusion-reaction bipolar energy transport system, and a drift-diffusion-reaction energy transport system with confining potential. We prove corresponding entropy-entropy production inequalities with explicitely calculable constants and establish the convergence to thermodynamical equilibrium, at first in entropy and further in L1 using Cziszar-Kullback-Pinsker type inequalities.

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