On Uniform Decay of the Entropy for Reaction–Diffusion Systems

Journal of Dynamics and Differential Equations

Volumn 27, Issue 3-4, 2015, Pages 897-928

  Mielke, Alexander ^a   Haskovec, Jan ^b   Markowich, Peter A ^b  

^a WIAS Berlin   (Germany)

^b KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Exponential decay of relative entropy; Log Sobolev inequality; Mass action law; Reaction diffusion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949983200     PISSN: 10407294     EISSN: 15729222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10884-014-9394-x     Document Type: Article

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