Shock profiles for hydrodynamic models for fluid-particles flows in the flowing regime

Abstract

Starting from coupled fluid-kinetic equations for the modeling of laden flows, we derive relevant viscous corrections to be added to asymptotic hydrodynamic systems, by means of Chapman-Enskog expansions and analyse the shock profile structure for such limiting systems. Our main findings can be summarized as follows. Firstly, we consider simplified models, which are intended to reproduce the main difficulties and features of more intricate systems. However, while they are more easily accessible to analysis, such toy-models should be considered with caution since they might lose many important structural properties of the more realistic systems. Secondly, shock profiles can be identified also in such a case, which can be proven to be stable at least in the regime of small amplitude shocks. Last, but not least, regarding at the temperature of the mixture flow as a parameter of the problem, we show that the zero-temperature model admits viscous shock profiles. Numerical results indicate that a similar conclusion should apply in the regime of small positive temperatures.