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Bao Quoc Tang

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Energy conservation for inhomogeneous incompressible and compressible Euler equations

Energy conservations are studied for inhomogeneous incompressible and compressible Euler equations with general pressure law in a torus or a bounded domain. We provide sufficient conditions for a weak solution to conserve the energy. By exploiting a suitable test function, the spatial regularity for the density is only required to be of order $2/3$ in the incompressible case, and of order $1/3$ in the compressible case. When the density is constant, we recover the existing results for classical incompressible Euler equation.

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Uniform-in-time bounds for quadratic reaction-diffusion systems with mass dissipation in higher dimensions

Uniform-in-time bounds of nonnegative classical solutions to reaction-diffusion systems in all space dimension are proved. The systems are assumed to dissipate the total mass and to have locally Lipschitz nonlinearities of at most (slightly super-) quadratic growth. This pushes forward the recent advances concerning global existence of reaction-diffusion systems dissipating mass in which a uniform-in-time bound has been known only in space dimension one or two. As an application, skew-symmetric Lotka-Volterra systems are shown to have unique classical solutions which are uniformly bounded in time in all dimensions with relatively compact trajectories in $C(\overlineΩ)^m$.

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Uniform boundedness for reaction-diffusion systems with mass dissipation

We study the global existence and uniform-in-time bounds of classical solutions in all dimensions to reaction-diffusion systems dissipating mass. By utilizing the duality method and the regularization of the heat operator, we show that if the diffusion coefficients are close to each other, or if the diffusion coefficients are large enough compared to initial data, then the local classical solution exists globally and is bounded uniformly in time. Applications of the results include the validity of the Global Attractor Conjecture for complex balanced reaction systems with large diffusion.

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Global classical solutions to quadratic systems with mass control in arbitrary dimensions

The global existence of classical solutions to reaction-diffusion systems in arbitrary space dimensions is studied. The nonlinearities are assumed to be quasi-positive, to have (slightly super-) quadratic growth, and to possess a mass control, which includes the important cases as mass conservation and mass dissipation. Under these assumptions, the local classical solution is shown to be global and, in case of mass conservation or mass dissipation, to have $L^{\infty}$-norm growing at most polynomially in time. Applications include skew-symmetric Lotka-Volterra systems and quadratic reversible chemical reactions.

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Stabilisation by noise on the boundary for a Chafee-Infante equation with dynamical boundary conditions

The stabilisation by noise on the boundary of the Chafee-Infante equation with dynamical boundary conditions subject to a multiplicative Itô noise is studied. In particular, we show that there exists a finite range of noise intensities that imply the exponential stability of the trivial steady state. This differs from previous works on the stabilisation by noise of parabolic PDEs, where the noise acts inside the domain and stabilisation typically occurs for an infinite range of noise intensities. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first result on the stabilisation of PDEs by boundary noise.

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Trend to equilibrium of renormalized solutions to reaction-cross-diffusion systems

The convergence to equilibrium of renormalized solutions to reaction-cross-diffusion systems in a bounded domain under no-flux boundary conditions is studied. The reactions model complex balanced chemical reaction networks coming from mass-action kinetics and thus do not obey any growth condition, while the diffusion matrix is of cross-diffusion type and hence nondiagonal and neither symmetric nor positive semi-definite, but the system admits a formal gradient-flow or entropy structure. The diffusion term generalizes the population model of Shigesada, Kawasaki and Teramoto to an arbitrary number of species. By showing that any renormalized solution satisfies the conservation of masses and a weak entropy-entropy production inequality, it can be proved under the assumption of no boundary equilibria that {\it all} renormalized solutions converge exponentially to the complex balanced equilibrium with a rate which is explicit up to a finite dimensional inequality.

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Inverse point source location with the Helmholtz equation on a bounded domain

The problem of recovering acoustic sources, more specifically monopoles, from point-wise measurements of the corresponding acoustic pressure at a limited number of frequencies is addressed. To this purpose, a family of sparse optimization problems in measure space in combination with the Helmholtz equation on a bounded domain is considered. A weighted norm with unbounded weight near the observation points is incorporated into the formulation. Optimality conditions and conditions for recovery in the small noise case are discussed, which motivates concrete choices of the weight. The numerical realization is based on an accelerated conditional gradient method in measure space and a finite element discretization.

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Exponential time decay of solutions to reaction-cross-diffusion systems of Maxwell-Stefan type

The large-time asymptotics of weak solutions to Maxwell--Stefan diffusion systems for chemically reacting fluids with different molar masses and reversible reactions are investigated. The diffusion matrix of the system is generally neither symmetric nor positive definite, but the equations admit a formal gradient-flow structure which provides entropy (free energy) estimates. The main result is the exponential decay to the unique equilibrium with a rate that is constructive up to a finite-dimensional inequality. The key elements of the proof are the existence of a unique detailed-balanced equilibrium and the derivation of an inequality relating the entropy and the entropy production. The main difficulty comes from the fact that the reactions are represented by molar fractions while the conservation laws hold for the concentrations. The idea is to enlarge the space of $n$ partial concentrations by adding the total concentration, viewed as an independent variable, thus working with $n+1$ variables. Further results concern the existence of global bounded weak solutions to the parabolic system and an extension of the results to complex-balanced systems.

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Global classical solutions to reaction-diffusion systems in one and two dimensions

The global existence of classical solutions to reaction-diffusion systems in dimensions one and two is proved. The considered systems are assumed to satisfy an {\it entropy inequality} and have nonlinearities with at most cubic growth in 1D or at most quadratic growth in 2D. This global existence was already proved in [T. Goudon and A. Vasseur, Ann. Sci. École Norm. Sup. (4) 43 (2010), no. 1, 117--142] by a De Giorgi method. In this paper, we give a simplified proof by using a modified Gagliardo-Nirenberg inequality and the regularity of the heat operator. Moreover, the classical solution is proved to have $L^{\infty}$-norm growing at most polynomially in time. As an application, solutions to chemical reaction-diffusion systems satisfying the so-called complex balance condition are proved to converge exponentially to equilibrium in $L^{\infty}$-norm.

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Close-to-equilibrium regularity for reaction-diffusion systems

The close-to-equilibrium regularity of solutions to a class of reaction-diffusion systems is investigated. The considered systems typically arise from chemical reaction networks and satisfy a complex balanced condition. Under some restrictions on spatial dimensions ($d\leq 4$) and order of nonlinearities ($μ= 1 + 4/d$), we show that if the initial data is close to a complex balanced equilibrium in $L^2$-norm, then classical solutions are shown global and converging exponentially to equilibrium in $L^{\infty}$-norm. Possible extensions to higher dimensions and order of nonlinearities are also discussed. The results of this paper improve the recent work [M.J. Cáceres and J.A. Cañizo, Nonlinear Analysis: TMA 159 (2017): 62-84].

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Global regularity and convergence to equilibrium of reaction-diffusion systems with nonlinear diffusion

We study the boundedness and convergence to equilibrium of weak solutions to reaction-diffusion systems with nonlinear diffusion. The nonlinear diffusion is of porous medium type and the nonlinear reaction terms are assumed to grow polynomially and to dissipate (or conserve) the total mass. By utilising duality estimates, the dissipation of the total mass and the smoothing effect of the porous medium equation, we prove that if the exponents of the nonlinear diffusion terms are high enough, then weak solutions are bounded, locally Hölder continuous and their $L^{\infty}(Ω)$-norm grows in time at most polynomially. In order to show convergence to equilibrium, we consider a specific class of nonlinear reaction-diffusion models, which describe a single reversible reaction with arbitrarily many chemical substances. By exploiting a generalised Logarithmic Sobolev Inequality, an indirect diffusion effect and the polynomial in time growth of the $L^{\infty}(Ω)$-norm, we show an entropy entropy-production inequality which implies exponential convergence to equilibrium in $L^p(Ω)$-norm, for any $1\leq p < \infty$, with explicit rates and constants.

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Explicit exponential convergence to equilibrium for nonlinear reaction-diffusion systems with detailed balance condition

The convergence to equilibrium of mass action reaction-diffusion systems arising from networks of chemical reactions is studied. The considered reaction networks are assumed to satisfy the detailed balance condition and have no boundary equilibria. We propose a general approach based on the so-called entropy method, which is able to quantify with explicitly computable rates the decay of an entropy functional in terms of an entropy entropy-dissipation inequality based on the totality of the conservation laws of the system. As a consequence follows convergence to the unique detailed balance equilibrium with explicitly computable convergence rates. The general approach is further detailed for two important example systems: a single reversible reaction involving an arbitrary number of chemical substances and a chain of two reversible reactions arising from enzyme reactions.

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Entropy methods and convergence to equilibrium for volume-surface reaction-diffusion systems

We consider two volume-surface reaction-diffusion systems arising from cell biology. The first system describes the localisation of the protein Lgl in the asymmetric division of Drosophila SOP stem cells, while the second system models the JAK2/STAT5 signalling pathway. Both model systems have in common that i) different species are located in different spatial compartments, ii) the involved chemical reaction kinetics between the species satisfies a complex balance condition and iii) that the associated complex balance equilibrium is spatially inhomogeneous. By using recent advances on the entropy method for complex balanced reaction-diffusion systems, we show for both systems exponential convergence to the equilibrium with constants and rates, which can be explicitly estimated.

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Trend to equilibrium for reaction-diffusion systems arising from complex balanced chemical reaction networks

The quantitative convergence to equilibrium for reaction-diffusion systems arising from complex balanced chemical reaction networks with mass action kinetics is studied by using the so-called entropy method. In the first part of the paper, by deriving explicitly the entropy dissipation, we show that for complex balanced systems without boundary equilibria, each trajectory converges exponentially fast to the unique complex balance equilibrium. Moreover, a constructive proof is proposed to explicitly estimate the rate of convergence in the special case of a cyclic reaction. In the second part of the paper, complex balanced systems with boundary equilibria are considered. We investigate two specific cases featuring two and three chemical substances respectively. In these cases, the boundary equilibria are shown to be unstable in some sense, so that exponential convergence to the unique strictly positive equilibrium can also be proven.

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Analysis and numerical solution of coupled volume-surface reaction-diffusion systems with application to cell biology

We consider the numerical solution of coupled volume-surface reaction-diffusion systems having a detailed balance equilibrium. Based on the conservation of mass, an appropriate quadratic entropy functional is identified and an entropy-entropy dissipation inequality is proven. This allows us to show exponential convergence to equilibrium by the entropy method. We then investigate the discretization of the system by a finite element method and an implicit time stepping scheme including the domain approximation by polyhedral meshes. Mass conservation and exponential convergence to equilibrium are established on the discrete level by arguments similar to those on the continuous level and we obtain estimates of optimal order for the discretization error which hold uniformly in time. Some numerical tests are presented to illustrate these theoretical results. The analysis and the numerical approximation are discussed in detail for a simple model problem. The basic arguments however apply also in a more general context. This is demonstrated by investigation of a particular volume-surface reaction-diffusion system arising as a mathematical model for asymmetric stem cell division.

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