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Motivated by the vanishing contact problem, we study in the present paper the convergence of solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi equations depending nonlinearly on the unknown function. Let $H(x,p,u)$ be a continuous Hamiltonian which is strictly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Qinbo Chen

We consider the incompressible Navier--Stokes equations with periodic boundary conditions and time-independent forcing. For this type of flow, we derive adjoint equations whose trajectories converge asymptotically to the equilibrium and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-04-15 Mohammad Farazmand

For non convex Hamiltonians, the viscosity solution and the more geometric minimax solution of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation do not coincide in general. They are nevertheless related: we show that iterating the minimax procedure during…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-15 Qiaoling Wei

Here, we introduce a numerical approach for a class of Fokker-Planck (FP) equations. These equations are the adjoint of the linearization of Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) equations. Using this structure, we show how to transfer the properties of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-23 Adriano Festa , Diogo A. Gomes , Roberto M. Velho

We consider the stationary Hamilton-Jacobi equation where the dynamics can vanish at some points, the cost function is strictly positive and is allowed to be discontinuous. More precisely, we consider special class of discontinuities for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-01-09 Adriano Festa , Maurizio Falcone

We propose a new approach to the numerical solution of ergodic problems arising in the homogenization of Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) equations. It is based on a Newton-like method for solving inconsistent systems of nonlinear equations, coming…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-11 Simone Cacace , Fabio Camilli

This paper is the first attempt to systematically study properties of the effective Hamiltonian $\overline{H}$ arising in the periodic homogenization of some coercive but nonconvex Hamilton-Jacobi equations. Firstly, we introduce a new and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-05 Jianliang Qian , Hung V. Tran , Yifeng Yu

This paper studies Hamilton-Jacobi equations of evolution type defined in a general metric space. We give a notion of a solution through optimal principles and establish a unique existence theorem of the solution for initial value problems.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-07-30 Atsushi Nakayasu

We study random homogenization of second-order, degenerate and quasilinear Hamilton-Jacobi equations which are positively homogeneous in the gradient. Included are the equations of forced mean curvature motion and others describing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-29 Scott Armstrong , Pierre Cardaliaguet

We study a generalized vanishing discount problem for Hamilton--Jacobi equations, removing the standard monotonicity assumption, either in a global sense or when integrated against all Mather measures. Specifically, we consider \[ \lambda…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Panrui Ni , Jun Yan , Maxime Zavidovique

Employing a suitable nonlinear Lagrange functional, we derive generalized Hamilton-Jacobi equations for dynamical systems subject to linear velocity constraints. As long as a solution of the generalized Hamilton-Jacobi equation exists, the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Michele Pavon

We prove explicit estimates for the error in random homogenization of degenerate, second-order Hamilton-Jacobi equations, assuming the coefficients satisfy a finite range of dependence. In particular, we obtain an algebraic rate of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-12-31 Scott N. Armstrong , Pierre Cardaliaguet

The paper deals with path-dependent Hamilton-Jacobi equations with a coinvariant derivative which arise in investigations of optimal control problems and differential games for neutral-type systems in Hale's form. A viscosity (generalized)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-10 Anton Plaksin

We present a proof of qualitative stochastic homogenization for a nonconvex Hamilton-Jacobi equation. The new idea is to introduce a family of "sub-equations" and to control solutions of the original equation by the maximal subsolutions of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-11 Scott N. Armstrong , Hung V. Tran , Yifeng Yu

We establish a linear $L^p$ rate of convergence, $1<p<\infty$, with respect to the viscosity $\varepsilon$ for the vanishing viscosity process of semiconcave solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi equations by regularizing the PDE with the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-23 Alessandro Goffi

The aim of this article is twofold. First, we develop a unified framework for viscosity solutions to both first-order Hamilton-Jacobi equations and semilinear Hamilton-Jacobi equations driven by the idiosyncratic operator, defined on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Giacomo Ceccherini Silberstein , Daniela Tonon

Adjoints are used in optimization to speed-up computations, simplify optimality conditions or compute sensitivities. Because time is reversed in adjoint equations with first order time derivatives, boundary conditions and transmission…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2011-04-12 Frederic Alauzet , Olivier Pironneau

In this article, a notion of viscosity solutions is introduced for second order path-dependent Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (PHJB) equations associated with optimal control problems for path-dependent stochastic differential equations. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-26 Jianjun Zhou

We discuss a general procedure for arriving at the Hamilton-Jacobi equation of second-class constrained systems, and illustrate it in terms of a number of examples by explicitely obtaining the respective Hamilton principal function, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 K D Rothe , F G Scholtz

We study nonlocal first-order equations arising in the theory of dislocations. We prove the existence and uniqueness of the solutions of these equations in the case of positive and negative velocities, under suitable regularity assumptions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-02-13 Guy Barles , Olivier Ley