Lagrangian stochastic models with specular boundary condition

In this paper, we prove the well-posedness of a conditional McKean Lagrangian stochastic model, endowed with the specular boundary condition, and further the mean no-permeability condition, in a smooth bounded confinement domain D. This result extends our previous work [5], where the confinement domain was the upper-half plane and where the specular boundary condition has been constructed owing to some well known results on the law of the passage times at zero of the Brownian primitive. The extension of the construction to more general confinement domain exhibits difficulties that we handle by combining stochastic calculus and the analysis of kinetic equations. As a prerequisite for the study of the nonlinear case, we construct a Langevin process confined in (D) over bar and satisfying the specular boundary condition. We then use PDE techniques to construct the time-marginal densities of the nonlinear process from which we are able to exhibit the conditional McKean Lagrangian stochastic model. (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.