Reaction-Diffusion System Approximation to the Fast Diffusion Equation

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Hauptverfasser: Murakawa, Hideki, Salin, Florian
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author Murakawa, Hideki
Salin, Florian
author_facet Murakawa, Hideki
Salin, Florian
contents This paper proposes a novel reaction-diffusion system approximation tailored for singular diffusion problems, typified by the fast diffusion equation. While such approximation methods have been successfully applied to degenerate parabolic equations, their extension to singular diffusion-where the diffusion coefficient diverges at low densities-has remained unexplored. To address this, we construct an approximating semilinear system characterized by a reaction relaxation parameter and a time-derivative regularizing parameter. We rigorously establish the well-posedness of this system and derive uniform a priori estimates. Using compactness arguments, we prove the convergence of the approximate solutions to the unique weak solution of the target singular diffusion equation under three distinct asymptotic regimes: the simultaneous limit, the limit via a parabolic-elliptic system, and the limit via a uniformly parabolic equation. This approach effectively transfers the diffusion singularity into the reaction terms, yielding a highly tractable system for both theoretical analysis and computation. Finally, we present numerical experiments that validate our theoretical convergence results and demonstrate the practical efficacy of the proposed approximation scheme.
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spellingShingle Reaction-Diffusion System Approximation to the Fast Diffusion Equation
Murakawa, Hideki
Salin, Florian
Analysis of PDEs
35A35, 35K57, 35K67, 35B40
This paper proposes a novel reaction-diffusion system approximation tailored for singular diffusion problems, typified by the fast diffusion equation. While such approximation methods have been successfully applied to degenerate parabolic equations, their extension to singular diffusion-where the diffusion coefficient diverges at low densities-has remained unexplored. To address this, we construct an approximating semilinear system characterized by a reaction relaxation parameter and a time-derivative regularizing parameter. We rigorously establish the well-posedness of this system and derive uniform a priori estimates. Using compactness arguments, we prove the convergence of the approximate solutions to the unique weak solution of the target singular diffusion equation under three distinct asymptotic regimes: the simultaneous limit, the limit via a parabolic-elliptic system, and the limit via a uniformly parabolic equation. This approach effectively transfers the diffusion singularity into the reaction terms, yielding a highly tractable system for both theoretical analysis and computation. Finally, we present numerical experiments that validate our theoretical convergence results and demonstrate the practical efficacy of the proposed approximation scheme.
title Reaction-Diffusion System Approximation to the Fast Diffusion Equation
topic Analysis of PDEs
35A35, 35K57, 35K67, 35B40
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.29434