Global Strong Solutions for the Affine Darken Class of Maxwell-Stefan Diffusion Systems
Abstract
The core-diagonal closure of Bothe and Druet identifies multicomponent Darken diffusion as a thermodynamically consistent Maxwell-Stefan model in which the constitutive data are species tracer diffusivities. Building on the Stieltjes-coordinate and De Giorgi regularity framework introduced in our recent preprint for additive Maxwell-Stefan frictions, we prove global maximal-Lp strong well-posedness, without smallness assumptions, for the affine Darken class with composition-dependent scalar coefficients and uniformly positive tracer diffusivities. We show that this is exactly the maximal Darken class preserving the fixed Stieltjes eigenframe underlying the global argument. For general smooth, uniformly positive Darken tracer diffusivities we also derive the direct constrained flux form, exact mixing-entropy symmetrization, Fisher dissipation, composition-uniform normal ellipticity, and local strong well-posedness. Solutions in the affine class remain uniformly separated from the simplex boundary, become classical for positive times, and converge exponentially to equilibrium. Constant multiplicative frictions, including repeated factors, are covered by grouping species with equal factors.
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BibTeX
@misc{bothe2026global,
title = {{Global Strong Solutions for the Affine Darken Class of Maxwell-Stefan Diffusion Systems}},
author = {Dieter Bothe},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.00166},
eprint = {2610.00166},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.00166},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Global Strong Solutions for the Affine Darken Class of Maxwell-Stefan Diffusion Systems
AU - Dieter Bothe
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/01
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.00166
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.00166
AB - The core-diagonal closure of Bothe and Druet identifies multicomponent Darken diffusion as a thermodynamically consistent Maxwell-Stefan model in which the constitutive data are species tracer diffusivities. Building on the Stieltjes-coordinate and De Giorgi regularity framework introduced in our recent preprint for additive Maxwell-Stefan frictions, we prove global maximal-L^p strong well-posedness, without smallness assumptions, for the affine Darken class with composition-dependent scalar coefficients and uniformly positive tracer diffusivities. We show that this is exactly the maximal Darken class preserving the fixed Stieltjes eigenframe underlying the global argument. For general smooth, uniformly positive Darken tracer diffusivities we also derive the direct constrained flux form, exact mixing-entropy symmetrization, Fisher dissipation, composition-uniform normal ellipticity, and local strong well-posedness. Solutions in the affine class remain uniformly separated from the simplex boundary, become classical for positive times, and converge exponentially to equilibrium. Constant multiplicative frictions, including repeated factors, are covered by grouping species with equal factors.
ER -