Analysis of some heterogeneous catalysis models with fast sorption and fast surface chemistry

Abstract

We investigate limit models resulting from a dimensional analysis of quite general heterogeneous catalysis models with fast sorption (i.e.\ exchange of mass between the bulk phase and the catalytic surface of a reactor) and fast surface chemistry for a prototypical chemical reactor. For the resulting reaction-diffusion systems with linear boundary conditions on the normal mass fluxes, but at the same time nonlinear boundary conditions on the concentrations itself, we provide analytic properties such as local-in time well-posedness, positivity and global existence of strong solutions in the class ${\mathrm{W}}_p^{(1,2)}(J\times \Omega ;{\mathbb{R}}^N)$, and of classical Hölder solutions in the class ${\mathrm{C}}^{(1+\alpha ,2+2\alpha )}(\overline{J}\times \overline{\Omega })$. Exploiting that the model is based on thermodynamic principles, we further show a priori bounds related to mass conservation and the entropy principle.

29 pages, published in Journal of Evolution Equations (2021)

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