REVIEW ON MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS OF SOME TWO-PHASE FLOW MODELS

The two-phase flow models are commonly used in industrial applications, such as nuclear, power, chemical-process, oil-and-gas, cryogenics, bio-medical, micro-technology and so on. This is a survey paper on the study of compressible nonconservative two-fluid model, drift-flux model and viscous liquid-gas two-phase flow model. We give the research developments of these three two-phase flow models, respectively. In the last part, we give some open problems about the above models.

Global classical solutions for 3D compressible magneto-micropolar fluids without resistivity and spin viscosity in a strip domain

In this paper,we consider 3D compressible magneto-micropolar fluids without resistivity and spin viscosity in a strip domain.The prominent character of the governing model is the presence of the microstructure,a linear coupling structure involving derivatives of the velocity fields,which along with the lack of spin viscosity brings several challenges to the analysis.By exploiting the two-tier energy method developed in Guo and Tice(Arch Ration Mech Anal,2013),we prove the global existence of classical solutions to the governing model around a uniform magnetic field that is non-parallel to the horizontal boundary.Moreover,we show that the solution converges to the steady state at an almost exponential rate as time goes to infinity.One of the main ingredients in our analysis,compared with previous works on micropolar fluids,is that we deal with the microstructure by establishing some delicate estimates based on the analysis of the div-curl decomposition,and the coupling between the fluid velocity and the vorticity of angular velocity.

Convergence to diffusion waves for solutions of Euler equations with time-depending damping on quadrant

This paper is concerned with the asymptotic behavior of the solution to the Euler equations with time-depending damping on quadrant(x,t)∈R^+×R^+,with the null-Dirichlet boundary condition or the null-Neumann boundary condition on u. We show that the corresponding initial-boundary value problem admits a unique global smooth solution which tends timeasymptotically to the nonlinear diffusion wave. Compared with the previous work about Euler equations with constant coefficient damping, studied by Nishihara and Yang(1999), and Jiang and Zhu(2009, Discrete Contin Dyn Syst), we obtain a general result when the initial perturbation belongs to the same space. In addition,our main novelty lies in the fact that the cut-off points of the convergence rates are different from our previous result about the Cauchy problem. Our proof is based on the classical energy method and the analyses of the nonlinear diffusion wave.

Global weak solutions and asymptotics of a singular PDE-ODE chemotaxis system with discontinuous data

This paper is concerned with the well-posedness and large-time behavior of a two-dimensional PDE-ODE hybrid chemotaxis system describing the initiation of tumor angiogenesis. We first transform the system via a Cole-Hopf type transformation into a parabolic-hyperbolic system and then show that the solution to the transformed system converges to a constant equilibrium state as time tends to infinity. Finally we reverse the Cole-Hopf transformation and obtain the relevant results for the pre-transformed PDE-ODE hybrid system.In contrast to the existing related results, where continuous initial data is imposed, we are able to prove the asymptotic stability for discontinuous initial data with large oscillations. The key ingredient in our proof is the use of the so-called "effective viscous flux", which enables us to obtain the desired energy estimates and regularity. The technique of the "effective viscous flux" turns out to be a very useful tool to study chemotaxis systems with initial data having low regularity and was rarely(if not) used in the literature for chemotaxis models.

The global classical solution to a 1D two-fluid model with density-dependent viscosity and vacuum

In this paper, we consider the initial-boundary problem for a 1D two-fluid model with densitydependent viscosity and vacuum. The pressure depends on two variables but the viscosity only depends on one of the densities. We prove the global existence and uniqueness of the classical solution in the one-dimensional space with large initial data and vacuum. We use a new Helmholtz free energy function and the material derivative of the velocity field to deal with the general pressure with two variables, without the equivalence condition. We also develop a new argument to handle the general viscosity.

Experimental evidence for field-induced metamagnetic transition of EuCd_(2)As_(2)

Recent studies have shown that layered compound EuCd_(2)As_(2) could exhibit diverse topological states depending on the different magnetic structures,such as Weyl semimetal,Dirac semimetal and topological insulato r.In order to further study the interplay between magnetism and topology of EuCd_(2)As_(2),it is necessary to figure out its magnetic structure.Here,by magnetization(M) measurements and negative magnetostriction(λ) along the [001] direction measured by scanning tunneling microscopy on EuCd_(2)As_(2) single crystals,we observe field-induced metamagnetic phase transition from A-type antiferromagnetic(AFM) ground state to field-polarized state,with canted AFM(CAFM) state in between.Magnetization and magnetostriction are more sensitive to the in-plane field than the out-of-plane field,indicating the magnetic moments lying in the ab plane.The absence of abrupt jump on M-H and λ-H curves demonstrates that the phase transition is a second-order type.In CAFM state,M increases linearly with the field and λ is proportional to M~2.Tunneling conductance spectra show the field-induced evolution of the electronic density of states.Our results provide experimental evidence for understanding the magnetic structure of EuCd_(2)As_(2).