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Finite-energy weak solutions and relaxation for a compressible kinetic--fluid system with locally averaged Brinkman force

Young-Pil Choi·Roman Shvydkoy
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We study a kinetic--fluid system in which a Vlasov or Vlasov--Fokker--Planck equation is coupled to the compressible Navier--Stokes equations with density-dependent viscosities through a locally averaged Brinkman force. The averaging is chosen in a conservative form so that the coupled system preserves the total momentum and satisfies a natural energy-dissipation balance, while avoiding the pointwise evaluation of a possibly rough fluid velocity. The first main result is a conditional exponential relaxation estimate for sufficiently regular solutions. The estimate is proved under positive and negative density moment bounds and a Muckenhoupt $\calA_2$ condition on a power of the density, which replace uniform pointwise upper and lower bounds. The proof combines a modulated energy and hypocoercivity analysis with a compensating functional for the density fluctuation. A key ingredient is a weighted Calderón--Zygmund estimate for the associated elliptic corrector, which allows us to control the viscous contribution under the $\calA_2$ condition. The second main result concerns global finite-energy Bresch--Desjardins entropy weak solutions in admissible low-dimensional regimes. Using the additional entropy structure associated with the density-dependent viscosities, we verify the density assumptions required by the conditional relaxation theorem and obtain exponential relaxation for the weak solutions. In the diffusionless case, the particle distribution aligns toward a mono-kinetic state, while in the diffusive case the relaxation is towards a Maxwellian equilibrium.

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Young-Pil Choi, Roman Shvydkoy. 2026-08-13. Finite-energy weak solutions and relaxation for a compressible kinetic--fluid system with locally averaged Brinkman force. https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13777

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