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The wavefronts from a point source in a solid with cubic symmetry are examined with particular attention paid to the contribution from the conical points of the slowness surface. An asymptotic solution is developed that is uniform across…
The search of finite-time singularity solutions of Euler equations is considered for the case of an incompressible and inviscid fluid. Under the assumption that a finite-time blow-up solution may be spatially anisotropic as time goes by…
Solutions to finite-dimensional (all spatial Fourier modes set to zero beyond a finite wavenumber $K_G$), inviscid equations of hydrodynamics at long times are known to be at variance with those obtained for the original infinite…
We describe the quasi-static collapse of a radiating, spherical shell of matter in de Sitter space-time using a thermodynamical formalism. It is found that the specific heat at constant area and other thermodynamical quantities exhibit…
We study the singularity formation of smooth solutions of the relativistic Euler equations in $(3+1)$-dimensional spacetime for both finite initial energy and infinite initial energy. For the finite initial energy case, we prove that any…
In the first part of this paper we prove that the flow associated to the Burgers equation with a non local term of the form $\partial_x |D|^{\alpha-1} u$ fails to be uniformly continuous from bounded sets of $H^s({\mathbb D})$ to…
In this paper we generalise our previous results [1] concerning scattering on the exterior of collapsing dust clouds to the charged case, including in particular the extremal case. We analyse the energy boundedness of solutions $\phi$ to…
We construct a class of spherically symmetric collapse models in which a naked singularity may develop as the end state of collapse. The matter distribution considered has negative radial and tangential pressures, but the weak energy…
We consider the energy critical Schrodinger map to the 2-sphere for equivariant initial data of homotopy number k=1. We show the existence of a set of smooth initial data arbitrarily close to the ground state harmonic map in the scale…
The formation and semi-classical evaporation of two-dimensional black holes is studied in an exactly solvable model. Above a certain threshold energy flux, collapsing matter forms a singularity inside an apparent horizon. As the black hole…
We construct an example of blow-up in a flow of min-plus linear operators arising as solution operators for a Hamilton-Jacobi equation with a Hamiltonian of the form |p|^alpha+U(x,t), where alpha>1 and the potential U(x,t) is uniformly…
A Lax pair consisting of the Forsyth-Hopf-Cole transformation and a linear differential (in time) - difference (in continuous space) equation generates the whole hierarchy of the Burgers equation and admits exact moving front solutions.…
We consider a one-dimensional fluid-solid interaction model governed by the Burgers equation with a time varying interface. We discuss on the inverse problem of determining the shape of the interface from Dirichlet and Neumann data at one…
This paper proves the existence of unstable shocks of the Burgers-Hilbert equation conjectured in arXiv:2006.05568. More precisely, we construct smooth initial data with finite $H^9$-norm such that the solution in self-similar coordinates…
The goal of the present paper is the investigation of the evolution of anisotropic regular structures and turbulence at large Reynolds number in the multi-dimensional Burgers equation. We show that we have local isotropization of the…
Consider a nonlinear wave equation for a massless scalar field with self-interaction in the spatially flat de Sitter spacetime. We show that blow-up in a finite time occurs for the equation with arbitrary power nonlinearity as well as upper…
We study the singularity formation mechanisms of the inviscid generalized Surface Quasi-Geostrophic (gSQG) equation on the whole space $\mathbb{R}^2$ and on the upper half-plane $\mathbb{R}^2_+$, allowing infinite energy. In each case, we…
In dimension N=3 the cubic nonlinear Schrodinger equation has solutions which become singular, i.e. at a spatial point they blow up to infinity in finite time. In 1972 Zakharov famously investigated finite time singularity formation in the…
We study a class of non-linear parabolic systems relevant in turbulence theory. Those systems can be viewed as simplified versions of the Prandtl one-equation and Kolmogorov two-equation models of turbulence. We restrict our attention to…
We investigate the virialization of cosmic structures in the framework of flat FLRW cosmological models, in which the vacuum energy density evolves with time. In particular, our analysis focuses on the study of spherical matter…