Exponential decay to equilibrium for a fibre lay-down process on a moving conveyor belt
Résumé
We show existence and uniqueness of a stationary state for a kinetic
Fokker-Planck equation modelling the fibre lay-down process in the
production of non-woven textiles. Following a micro-macro
decomposition, we use hypocoercivity techniques to show exponential
convergence to equilibrium with an explicit rate assuming the
conveyor belt moves slow enough. This work is an extension of
(Dolbeault et al., 2013),
where the authors consider the case of a stationary conveyor
belt. Adding the movement of the belt, the global Gibbs state is not
known explicitly. We thus derive a more general hypocoercivity
estimate from which existence, uniqueness and exponential
convergence can be derived. To treat the same class of potentials as
in (Dolbeault et al., 2013),
we make use of an additional weight function following the Lyapunov
functional approach in (Kolb et al., 2013).
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