Pressure and temperature relaxation limit for a one-velocity Baer-Nunziato model

Abstract

The dynamics of two-phase flows out of mechanical and thermal equilibrium are described by a partially dissipative first-order quasilinear system with stiff interaction terms associated with fast relaxation scales. In this paper, we analyze from a mathematical point of view the resulting pressure and temperature relaxation singular limit problem for a one velocity Baer-Nunziato model. This leads to a singular limit problem involving two small parameters. We propose a uniform symmetrization of this system which allows us to justify the strong relaxation limit and to establish a convergence rate for classical solutions.