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In a previous work, we presented a class of initial data to the three dimensional, periodic, incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, generating a global smooth solution although the norm of the initial data may be chosen arbitrarily large.…
In this paper we report on numerical studies of formation of singularities for the semilinear wave equations with a focusing power nonlinearity $u_{tt} - \Delta u = u^{p}$ in three space dimensions. We show that for generic large initial…
In this work we investigate the stability and instability properties of a class of naked singularity spacetimes. The first rigorous study of naked singularity formation in the spherically symmetric Einstein-scalar field system was due to…
Hawking's singularity theorem says that cosmological solutions arising from initial data with positive mean curvature have a past singularity. However, the nature of the singularity remains unclear. We therefore ask: If the initial…
Shocks due to hyperbolic partial differential equations (PDEs) appear throughout mathematics and science. The canonical example is shock formation in the inviscid Burgers' equation $\frac{\partial u}{\partial t}+u\frac{\partial u}{\partial…
In this paper, we rigorously prove the existence of self-similar converging shock wave solutions for the non-isentropic Euler equations for $\gamma\in (1,3]$. These solutions are analytic away from the shock interface before collapse, and…
In this thesis we present partial progress towards the dynamic formation of black holes in the four-dimensional Einstein vacuum equations from Christodoulou's short-pulse ansatz. We identify natural scaling in a putative solution metric and…
For $0<\alpha<\frac{1}{3}$ we construct unique solutions to the fractal Burgers equation $\partial_t u + u\partial_xu + (-\Delta)^\alpha u = 0$ which develop a first shock in finite time, starting from smooth generic initial data. This…
We are interested in the three-dimensional quasilinear wave equations with null condition. Global existence and pointwise decay for this model have been proved in the celebrated works of Klainerman \cite{Klainerman86} and Christodoulou…
We consider Einstein's equations coupled to the Euler equations in plane symmetry, with compact spatial slices and constant mean curvature time. We show that for a wide variety of equations of state and a large class of initial data,…
The shock structure in a binary mixture of polyatomic Eulerian gases with different degrees of freedom of a molecule is studied based on the multi-temperature model of rational extended thermodynamics. Since the system of field equations is…
This work is a companion to [EJE1] and its purpose is threefold: first, we will establish local well-posedness for the axi-symmetric $3D$ Euler equation in the domains $\{(x_1,x_2,x_3) \in \mathbb{R}^3 : x_3^2 \le \mathfrak{c}(x_1^2 +…
In this paper, we consider the shock formation problem for the 3-dimensional(3D) compressible Euler equations with damping inspired by the work \cite{BSV3Dfulleuler}. It will be shown that for a class of large data, the damping can not…
Motivated by cosmic censorship in general relativity and string theory, we extend Christodoulou's celebrated examples of naked singularity formation in the Einstein-massless scalar field system to include a positive or negative scalar…
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…
It is an open question whether solutions of the Einstein-Euler equations are smooth enough to admit locally inertial coordinates at points of shock wave interaction, or whether "regularity singularities" can exist at such points. The term…
This paper studies the existence and singularity formation of supersonic expanding waves for the radially symmetric non-isentropic compressible Euler equations of polytropic gases. We introduce a suitable pair of gradient variables to…
We prove global existence for solutions arising from small initial data for a large class of quasilinear wave equations satisfying the `weak null condition' of Lindblad and Rodnianski, significantly enlarging upon the class of equations for…
In this paper, we study three-dimensional nonlinear wave equations under the null condition, a fundamental model in the theory of nonlinear wave-type equations, initially investigated by Christodoulou \cite{Christodoulou86} and Klainerman…
In this paper, we construct counterexamples to the local existence of low-regularity solutions to elastic wave equations in three spatial dimensions (3D). Inspired by the recent works of Christodoulou, we generalize Lindblad's classic…