Quantitative light-particle limit for the Vlasov-Fokker-Planck-Navier-Stokes system

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Main Authors: Choi, Young-Pil, Jung, Jinwook
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author Choi, Young-Pil
Jung, Jinwook
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Jung, Jinwook
contents We investigate the hydrodynamic limit of the Vlasov--Fokker--Planck--Navier--Stokes system in the light particle regime, where the particle relaxation takes place on a singularly fast time scale. Using a relative entropy method adapted to this scaling, we develop the first quantitative convergence theory for the light particle limit. Our analysis yields explicit rates for the convergence of both the kinetic distribution and the fluid velocity, extending the qualitative compactness-based result of Goudon, Jabin, and Vasseur [Indiana Univ. Math. J., 53, (2004), 1495--1515]. Moreover, we show that these quantitative estimates propagate in weak topologies and, in particular, lead to optimal convergence rates in the bounded Lipschitz distance. The results apply on both the torus and the whole space, providing a unified quantitative description of the light particle hydrodynamic limit.
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spellingShingle Quantitative light-particle limit for the Vlasov-Fokker-Planck-Navier-Stokes system
Choi, Young-Pil
Jung, Jinwook
Analysis of PDEs
We investigate the hydrodynamic limit of the Vlasov--Fokker--Planck--Navier--Stokes system in the light particle regime, where the particle relaxation takes place on a singularly fast time scale. Using a relative entropy method adapted to this scaling, we develop the first quantitative convergence theory for the light particle limit. Our analysis yields explicit rates for the convergence of both the kinetic distribution and the fluid velocity, extending the qualitative compactness-based result of Goudon, Jabin, and Vasseur [Indiana Univ. Math. J., 53, (2004), 1495--1515]. Moreover, we show that these quantitative estimates propagate in weak topologies and, in particular, lead to optimal convergence rates in the bounded Lipschitz distance. The results apply on both the torus and the whole space, providing a unified quantitative description of the light particle hydrodynamic limit.
title Quantitative light-particle limit for the Vlasov-Fokker-Planck-Navier-Stokes system
topic Analysis of PDEs
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.19110