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    Modeling of Chemical Reaction Systems with Detailed Balance Using Gradient Structures
    (New York, NY [u.a.] : Springer Science + Business Media B.V., 2020) Maas, Jan; Mielke, Alexander
    We consider various modeling levels for spatially homogeneous chemical reaction systems, namely the chemical master equation, the chemical Langevin dynamics, and the reaction-rate equation. Throughout we restrict our study to the case where the microscopic system satisfies the detailed-balance condition. The latter allows us to enrich the systems with a gradient structure, i.e. the evolution is given by a gradient-flow equation. We present the arising links between the associated gradient structures that are driven by the relative entropy of the detailed-balance steady state. The limit of large volumes is studied in the sense of evolutionary Γ-convergence of gradient flows. Moreover, we use the gradient structures to derive hybrid models for coupling different modeling levels.
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    Passing from bulk to bulk/surface evolution in the Allen-Cahn equation
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2012) Liero, Matthias
    In this paper we formulate a boundary layer approximation for an Allen-Cahn-type equation involving a small parameter $eps$. Here, $eps$ is related to the thickness of the boundary layer and we are interested in the limit when $eps$ tends to 0 in order to derive nontrivial boundary conditions. The evolution of the system is written as an energy balance formulation of the L^2-gradient flow with the corresponding Allen-Cahn energy functional. By transforming the boundary layer to a fixed domain we show the convergence of the solutions to a solution of a limit system. This is done by using concepts related to Gamma- and Mosco convergence. By considering different scalings in the boundary layer we obtain different boundary conditions.
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    Gradient structure for optoelectronic models of semiconductors
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2016) Mielke, Alexander; Peschka, Dirk; Rotundo, Nella; Thomas, Marita
    We derive an optoelectronic model based on a gradient formulation for the relaxation of electron-, hole- and photon- densities to their equilibrium state. This leads to a coupled system of partial and ordinary differential equations, for which we discuss the isothermal and the non-isothermal scenario separately.
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    Generalized gradient flow structure of internal energy driven phase field systems
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2015) Bonetti, Elena; Rocca, Elisabetta
    In this paper we introduce a general abstract formulation of a variational thermomechanical model, by means of a unified derivation via a generalization of the principle of virtual powers for all the variables of the system, including the thermal one. In particular, choosing as thermal variable the entropy of the system, and as driving functional the internal energy, we get a gradient flow structure (in a suitable abstract setting) for the whole nonlinear PDE system. We prove a global in time existence of (weak) solutions result for the Cauchy problem associated to the abstract PDE system as well as uniqueness in case of suitable smoothness assumptions on the functionals.
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    Thermomechanical modeling of energy-reaction-diffusion systems, including bulk-interface interactions : dedicated to Michel Frémond on the occasion of his seventieth birthday
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2011) Mielke, Alexander; Frémond, Michel
    We show that many couplings between parabolic systems for processes in solids can be formulated as a gradient system with respect to the total free energy or the total entropy. This includes Allen-Cahn, Cahn-Hilliard, and reaction-diffusion systems and the heat equation. For this, we write the coupled system as an Onsager system (X,F,K) defining the evolution $dot U$= - K(U) DF(U). Here F is the driving functional, while the Onsager operator K(U) is symmetric and positive semidefinite. If the inverse G=K-1 exists, the triple (X,F,G) defines a gradient system. Onsager systems are well suited to model bulk-interface interactions by using the dual dissipation potential ?*(U, ?)= ư .