Dissipative measure-valued solutions and weak--strong uniqueness for a viscous Baer--Nunziato system with pressure relaxation

Abstract

We study a viscous one-velocity Baer--Nunziato system for two barotropic compressible fluids in a bounded three-dimensional domain. In contrast with models in which the volume fraction is merely transported or determined by an algebraic equilibrium constraint, it satisfies a differential closure driven by the pressure gap between the phases. For arbitrary finite-energy initial data and adiabatic exponents ${\gamma }^{\pm }>1$, we construct global-in-time dissipative measure-valued solutions and prove dissipative measure-valued--strong uniqueness relative to any sufficiently regular solution with the same initial data. The principal difficulties are the singular and non-continuous behavior of the pressure-relaxation source at vanishing volume fractions, the associated concentration defects, and the lack of direct coercivity of the standard thermodynamic relative energy with respect to the volume fraction. These are resolved by an endpoint cutoff argument and an augmented relative energy coupled to the renormalized volume-fraction equation.