The small Deborah number limit for the compressible fluid-particle flows

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the hydrodynamic limit for the fluid-particle flows governed by the Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation coupled with the compressible Navier-Stokes equation as the Deborah number tends to zero. The limit is valid globally in time provided that the initial perturbation is small in a neighborhood of a steady state. The proof is based on a formal derivation via the Hilbert expansion around the limiting system, the rigorous justification of which is completed by the refined energy estimates involving the macro-micro decomposition. Compared with the existing results obtained by the relative entropy argument([A. Mellet and A. F. Vasseur, Comm. Math. Phys., 281 (2008), pp. 573--596]), the present work provides a stronger pointwise convergence of the hydrodynamic limits with an explicit rate for the fluid-particle coupled model.