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This paper investigates the connection between the chemotaxis--Navier--Stokes system with porous medium type nonlinear diffusion and the Hele--Shaw problem in $\mathbb{R}^d$ ($d\geq2$). First, we prove the global-in-time existence of weak…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Qingyou He , Ling-Yun Shou , Leyun Wu

Characteristics of a Hamilton-Jacobi equation can be seen as action minimizing trajectories of fluid particles. For nonsmooth "viscosity" solutions, which give rise to discontinuous velocity fields, this description is usually pursued only…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-03-12 Kostya Khanin , Andrei Sobolevski

We identify a new type of shock wave by constructing a stationary expansion shock solution of a class of regularised shallow water equations that include the Benjamin-Bona-Mahoney (BBM) and Boussinesq equations. An expansion shock exhibits…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-07-01 Gennady A. El , Mark A. Hoefer , Michael Shearer

Shock waves are supersonic disturbances propagating in a fluid and giving rise to dissipation and drag. Weak shocks, i.e., those of small amplitude, can be well described within the hydrodynamic approximation. On the other hand, strong…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-24 Sergei Khlebnikov , Martin Kruczenski , Georgios Michalogiorgakis

A circular Hele-Shaw cell bounded by a volumetrically confined elastic solid can act as a fluidic fuse: during radially outward fluid flow, the solid deforms in response to the viscous pressure field such that the gap expands near the inlet…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-15 Gunnar G. Peng , Callum Cuttle , Christopher W. MacMinn , Draga Pihler-Puzovic

Liquid impact problems for hemispherical fluid domain are considered. By using the concept of pressure impulse we show that the solution of the flow induced by the impact is reduced to the derivation of Laplace's equation in spherical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-22 Julien Philippi , Arnaud Antkowiak , Pierre-Yves Lagrée

In spherical symmetry, gravitational collapse of dust may give rise to the so-called shell-crossing singularities, beyond which spacetime can be extended using weak solutions to the integrated version of the equations of motion. We argue…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-15 Francesco Fazzini , Hassan Mehmood

We consider the wave equation for sound in a moving fluid with a fourth-order anomalous dispersion relation. The velocity of the fluid is a linear function of position, giving two points in the flow where the fluid velocity matches the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-29 T. G. Philbin

We present a linear dispersive partial differential equation which manifests a number of qualitative features of dispersive shocks, typically thought to occur only in nonlinear models. The model captures much of the short time phenomenon…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-26 David Smith , Thomas Trogdon , Vishal Vasan

While several articles have been written on water waves on flows with constant vorticity, little is known about the extent to which a nonconstant vorticity affects the flow structure, such as the appearance of stagnation points. In order to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-18 Marcelo V. Flamarion , Roberto Ribeiro-Jr

This paper is concerned with singular shocks for a system of conservation laws modeling incompressible two-phase fluid flow. We prove the existence of viscous profiles using the Geometric Singular Perturbation Theory. Weak convergence and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-09 Ting-Hao Hsu

We rigorously prove the convergence of appropriately scaled solutions of the 2D Hele-Shaw moving boundary problem with surface tension in the limit of thin threads to the solution of the formally corresponding Thin Film equation. The proof…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-07-16 Bogdan-Vasile Matioc , Georg Prokert

In this paper, we demonstrate that potential theory provides a powerful framework for analyzing quasistationary fluid flows in bounded geometries, where the bulk dynamics are governed by elliptic equations with constant coefficients. This…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Bogdan-Vasile Matioc , Christoph Walker

The flow field with a Mach number larger than 5 is named hypersonic flow. In this paper, we explore the existence of smooth flow field after shock for hypersonic potential flow past a curved smooth wedge with neither smallness assumption on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Dian Hu , Aifang Qu

In this note we study the singular vanishing-viscosity limit of a gradient flow set in a finite-dimensional Hilbert space and driven by a smooth, but possibly non convex, time-dependent energy functional. We resort to ideas and techniques…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-28 Virginia Agostiniani , Riccarda Rossi

We derive global weak solutions of Einstein's equations for spherically symmetric dust-filled space-times which admit shell-crossing singularities. In the marginally bound case, the solutions are weak solutions of a conservation law. In the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 Brien C. Nolan

In any number of space variables, we study the Cauchy problem related to the thin-film equation in the simplest case of a linearly degenerate mobility. This equation, derived from a lubrication approximation, also models the surface tension…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-24 Dominik John

We consider a model for thin liquid films in a rotating cylinder in the small surface tension limit. Using dynamical system methods, we show that the continuum of increasing shock solutions persists in the small surface tension limit,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-17 Daniel Badali , Marina Chugunova , Dmitry Pelinovsky , Steven Pollack

In this paper, we characterize a class of solutions to the unsteady 2-dimensional flow of a van der Waals fluid involving shock waves, and derive an asymptotic amplitude equation exhibiting quadratic and cubic nonlinearities including…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Neelam Gupta , V. D. Sharma

This paper is devoted to the investigation of propagation of singularities in hyperbolic equations with non-smooth oefficients, using the Colombeau theory of generalized functions. As a model problem, we study the Cauchy problem for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-02-07 Hideo Deguchi , Guenther Hoermann , Michael Oberguggenberger