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This paper is concerned with the initial boundary value problem of the Vlasov–Fokker–Planck equation coupled with either the incompressible or compressible Navier–Stokes equations in a bounded domain. The global existence of unique strong solution and its exponential convergence rate to the equilibrium state are proved under the Maxwell boundary condition for the incompressible case and specular reflection boundary condition for the compressible case, respectively. For the compressible model, to overcome the lack of regularity due to the coupling with the kinetic equation in a bounded domain, an essential \(L^{\frac{10}{3}}\) estimate is analyzed so that the a priori estimate can be closed by applying the \({\mathcal {S}}_{\mathcal {L}}^p\) theory developed by Guo et al. for kinetic models, [Arch Ration Mech Anal 236(3): 1389–1454 (2020)].
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H.-L. Li’s research was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China 11931010 and 11871047 and by the key research project of Academy for Multidisciplinary Studies, Capital Normal University, and by the Capacity Building for Sci-Tech Innovation-Fundamental Scientific Research Funds 007/20530290068. S.-Q. Liu’s research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China 11971201 and 11731008. T. Yang’s research was supported by a fellowship award from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (Project No. SRF2021-1S01).
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Appendix
In the appendix, we summarize some preliminary analysis used in deriving the \(L^\infty \) estimates in Sect. 4.
1.1 Extension Beyond the Boundary
Following the approach used in [14, 23], we extend the domain \(\Omega \) to the whole space preserving the hypoelliptic structure of the Fokker–Planck equation (1.19)\(_3\).
By the compactness of \(\partial \Omega \), there exist finitely many points \(x_i^0\in \partial \Omega \), radii \(r_i>0\) such that \(\partial \Omega \subset \cup _i^m B(x_i^0,r_i)\). Denote \(U_i=\Omega \cap B(x_i^0,r_i)\), then there exist smooth functions \(\phi _i(x_1,x_2)\in C_b^3({\mathbb {R}}^2,{\mathbb {R}})\), \((i=1,2,\cdots ,m)\) such that
Here \(B(x_i^0,r_i)\) is an open ball with center \(x_i^0\) and radius \(r_i>0.\) In what follows, we omit the subscript i of \(\phi _i\) and \(U_i\) for notational simplicity. We now change coordinates to flatten the boundary locally. To do this, for any \(x\in U\), define
where \(\varrho (y_1,y_2)=(y_1,y_2,\phi (y_1,y_2))^T\in \partial \Omega \). Moreover, \(\partial _1\varrho =(1,0,\partial _1\phi )\), \(\partial _2\varrho =(0,1,\partial _2\phi )\), then the outward normal vector at the point \(\varrho (y_1,y_2)\in \partial \Omega \) is chosen to be
We can choose \(s>0\) small enough so that the half ball \(V':=B(0,s)\cap \{y_3<0\}\) lies in \(\psi (U)\). Then the phase boundary \(\partial \Omega \times {\mathbb {R}}^3\) is locally flattened by defining the transformation
where
We now change variables and extend u and f to the upper half space
where \(R=\text {diag}(1,1,-1)\). Note that
Denote \(V_+=\{y: Ry\in V_-\}\supset B(0,s)\cap \{y_3>0\}\) and set \(V={\bar{V}}_+\cup V_-.\) To extend in the \(\tau \) variable, define
Moreover, let us define \(U_0\subset \Omega \) such that \(\cup _{i=0}^m U_i\supset \Omega \), and then denote
where \(V_{-,i}\) and \(V_i\) are induced by \(U_i\) in the way as (5.1) and (5.2), respectively.
Let
and denote \({\bar{f}}=\tilde{{\tilde{f}}}\chi {\bar{\chi }}\) for brevity. We now derive the equation that \({\bar{f}}(\tau ,y,w)\) satisfies. Actually, in view of (1.19)\(_3\), (5.1), (5.2) and (5.3), one has
where
and
where \(\tilde{{\tilde{M}}}\) is defined as (5.3) and \(\delta (\tau )\) is the Dirac function, and
and \(\chi _{\tau >0}\), \(\chi _{y_3\le 0}\) as well as \(\chi _{y_3>0}\) are also characteristic functions.
Note that all the elements in \(\chi A\) and \(\chi B\) are uniformly bounded.
Remark 4.1
In the above extension, it is crucial that across the boundary the extended equation (5.6) is satisfied by \({\bar{f}}\) is weak sense. Namely, \({\bar{f}}\) should satisfy the following weak formation of equation (5.6) in the whole space
where \(\Phi \in C_0^\infty ({\mathbb {R}}^{6+1})\) and the boundary term vanishes due to
1.2 \({\mathcal {S}}_{\mathcal {L}}^P\) Theory
For general interest, we summarize in the following properties of the operator \({\mathcal {L}}\) defined in (4.33). First of all, the following assumptions on the coefficients of \({\mathcal {L}}\) are imposed:
[H.1] \(a_{ij}=a_{ji}\in L^\infty ({\mathbb {R}}^{6+1})\), there exists \(\Lambda >0\) such that
[H.2] The matrix \({\mathscr {B}}=(b_{ij})_{i,j=1,2,\cdots ,6}=\) has the following form
where each \({\mathscr {B}}_j\) is a \(m_{j-1}\times m_j\) block matrix of rank \(m_j\), with \(j=1,2,\cdots ,r\) and \(m_0\ge m_1\ge \cdots \ge m_r\ge 1\) and \(m_0+m_1+\cdots +m_r=6.\)
[H.3] The coefficients
where the \(\mathrm{VMO}_{{\mathcal {L}}}\) space is defined as
with
Note that the quasi-distance d is chosen according to the following two definitions.
Definition 4.1
(Quasi-Norm) For any \({\mathbf {z}}:=(t,y,w)\in {\mathbb {R}}^{6+1}\backslash \{{\mathbf {0}}\}\) , define the “quasi-norm” \(\Vert {\mathbf {z}}\Vert :={\bar{\rho }}\) to be the unique positive solution to the equation
while if \({\mathbf {z}}={\mathbf {0}}\) , we set \(\Vert {\mathbf {z}}\Vert =0\).
Based on this quasi-norm, the quasi-distance is defined as
Definition 4.2
(Quasi-Distance) Let \({\mathbf {z}}:=(t,y,w),\, {\mathbf {w}}:=(\tau ,y',w') \in {\mathbb {R}}^{6+1}\), define
where
Furthermore, we define also the d-ball centered at \({\mathbf {z}}\) with radius r as
Note that \(({\mathbb {R}}_y^3\times {\mathbb {R}}_w^3,d\mathbf{z},d)\) is a metric measure space with “spatial homogeneous dimension" \(Q=12.\) Moreover, the quasi-distance d naturally induces a topology on \({\mathbb {R}}_t\!\times \!{\mathbb {R}}_y^3\!\times \!{\mathbb {R}}_w^3\), which allows us to define the Hölder space \(C^{\,k,\beta }_{\mathcal {L}}\) accordingly.
Definition 4.3
(\(C^{\,k,\beta }_{\mathcal {L}}\) Space) Assume \(\Pi \) is an open set in \({\mathbb {R}}^{6+1}\). If there exist constants \(\beta \in (0,1]\) and \(C_0>0\) such that
for every \({\mathbf {z}}, {\mathbf {w}} \in \Pi \) . Then we call f satisfies \({\mathcal {L}}\)-Hölder condition, or has (uniform) \({\mathcal {L}}\) -Hölder continuity. In this case, f can be equipped with a semi-norm
Additionally, if the function f and its derivatives up to order k are bounded on the closure of \(\Pi \) (bounded), then the \({\mathcal {L}}\) -Hölder space \(C^{\,k,\beta }_{\mathcal {L}}({\bar{\Pi }})\) is a Banach space with respect to the norm
and
The following lemma from [2, 34] is used in the proof of (4.31).
Lemma 4.2
Let \(\Pi \) be a bounded open set in \({\mathbb {R}}_t\times {\mathbb {R}}^3_y\times {\mathbb {R}}^3_w\), and f be a solution of \({\mathcal {L}}f={\mathcal {S}}\). Suppose that the conditions [H.1]–[H.3] are satisfied in \(\Pi \), and that \(f\in L^p(\Pi )\), \({\mathcal {S}}\in L^{p}(\Pi )\) with \(p\in (1,\infty )\). Then \({\mathcal {Y}}f\in L^{p}_\mathrm{{loc}}(\Pi )\), \(\partial _{v_i v_j}f\in L^{p}_\mathrm{{loc}}(\Pi )\; (i,j=1,2,3)\). More precisely, for every open subset \(\Pi '\subset \subset \Pi \), it holds
where \(C_1>0\) depends on p, \(\mathrm{dist}(\Pi ',\Pi )\), eigenvalues (elliptic constant) of \((a_{ij}({\mathbf {z}}))\), \(\alpha \) and \(C_0\) related to the Hölder semi-norm of \(a_{ij}({\mathbf {z}})\).
Finally, the following lemma provides us the embedding estimates of Sobolev type space \({\mathcal {S}}_{{\mathcal {L}}}^p\) defined by (4.32) and Morrey type space, cf. [2, 34].
Lemma 4.3
For any \(u\in S^{p}_{{\mathcal {L}}}({\mathbb {R}}_t\!\times \!{\mathbb {R}}_y^3\!\times \!{\mathbb {R}}_w^3)\) with \(p\in (1,\infty )\), if \(7<p<14\), then \(u\in C^{0,\beta }_{\mathcal {L}}({\mathbb {R}}_t\!\times \!{\mathbb {R}}_y^3\!\times \!{\mathbb {R}}_w^3)\) with \(\beta = 2-\frac{14}{p} \in (0,1)\), such that
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Li, H., Liu, S. & Yang, T. The Navier–Stokes–Vlasov–Fokker–Planck System in Bounded Domains. J Stat Phys 186, 42 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10955-022-02886-7
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Keywords
- Navier–Stokes–Vlasov–Pokker–Plack system
- Maxwell boundary condition
- Specular reflection boundary condition
- \(L^2-L^{\frac{10}{3}}\) estimate