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On Regularized Systems of Equations for Gas Mixture Dynamics with New Regularizing Velocities and Diffusion Fluxes
Alexander Zlotnik1,2, Timofey Lomonosov1,2
1Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Economic Sciences, Higher School of Economics University, Pokrovskii Bd. 11, Moscow 109028, Russia.
Abstract:
We deal with multidimensional regularized systems of equations for the one-velocity and one-temperature inert gas mixture dynamics consisting of the balance equations for the mass of components and the momentum and total energy of the mixture, with diffusion fluxes between the components as well as the viscosity and heat conductivity terms. The regularizations are kinetically motivated and aimed at constructing conditionally stable symmetric in space discretizations without limiters. We consider a new combined form of regularizing velocities containing the total pressure of the mixture. To confirm the physical correctness of the regularized systems, we derive the balance equation for the mixture entropy with the non-negative entropy production, under generalized assumptions on the diffusion fluxes. To confirm nice regularizing properties, we derive the systems of equations linearized at constant solutions and provide the existence, uniqueness and L2-dissipativity of weak solutions to an initial-boundary problem for them. For the original systems, we also discuss the related Petrovskii parabolicity property and its important corollaries. In addition, in the one-dimensional case, we also present the special three-point and symmetric finite-difference discretization in space of the regularized systems and prove that it inherits the entropy correctness property. We also give results of numerical experiments confirming that the discretization is able to simulate well various dynamic problems of contact between two different gases.
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