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We present a fully discrete Crank-Nicolson Fourier-spectral-Galerkin (FSG) scheme for approximating solutions of the fractional Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation, which involves a fractional Laplacian with exponent $\alpha \in [1,2]$ and a…
We study a class of nonlinear nonlocal conservation laws with discontinuous flux, modeling crowd dynamics and traffic flow, without any additional conditions on finiteness/discreteness of the set of discontinuities or on the monotonicity of…
In this paper we develop an existence theory for the nonlinear initial-boundary value problem with singular diffusion $\partial_t u = \text{div}(k(x)\nabla G(u))$, $u|_{t=0}=u_0$ with Neumann boundary conditions $k(x)\nabla G(u)\cdot \nu =…
We apply the method of nonlinear steepest descent to compute the long-time asymptotics of solutions of the Korteweg--de Vries equation which are decaying perturbations of a quasi-periodic finite-gap background solution. We compute a…
We prove a threshold phenomenon for the existence/non-existence of energy minimizing solitary solutions of the diffraction management equation for strictly positive and zero average diffraction. Our methods allow for a large class of…
The KdV-Burgers equation is a canonical model describing the interplay between nonlinearity, viscosity and dispersion, and it admits viscous-dispersive shocks as traveling wave solutions. In this paper, we establish an $L^2$-contraction…
We show that bounded divergence-free vector fields $u : [0,\infty) \times \mathbb{R}^d \to\mathbb{R}^d$ decrease the ''concentration'', quantified by the modulus of absolute continuity with respect to the Lebesgue measure, of solutions to…
This article deals with the design of saturated controls in the context of partial differential equations. It is focused on a Korteweg-de Vries equation, which is a nonlinear mathematical model of waves on shallow water surfaces. The aim of…
We consider an extended Korteweg-de Vries (eKdV) equation, the usual Korteweg-de Vries equation with inclusion of an additional cubic nonlinearity. We investigate the statistical behaviour of flat-top solitary waves described by an eKdV…
The aim of this paper is to obtain estimates for the density of the law of a specific nonlinear diffusion process at any positive bounded time. This process is issued from kinetic theory and is called Landau process, by analogy with the…
We consider a kinetic model whose evolution is described by a Boltzmann-like equation for the one-particle phase space distribution $f(x,v,t)$. There are hard-sphere collisions between the particles as well as collisions with randomly fixed…
We are interested in the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV), the Burgers, and the Whitham limit for a spatially periodic Boussinesq model with non-small contrast. We prove estimates between the KdV, the Burgers, and the Whitham approximation and true…
We study the paralinearised weakly dispersive Burgers type equation: $$\partial_t u+T_u \partial_xu+\partial_x |D|^{\alpha-1}u=0,\ \alpha \in ]1,2[,$$ which contains the main non linear "worst interaction" terms, that is low-high…
In this paper we prove that the unique entropy solution to a scalar nonlinear conservation law with strictly monotone velocity and nonnegative initial condition can be rigorously obtained as the large particle limit of a microscopic…
Within the class of nonlinear hyperbolic balance laws posed on a curved spacetime (endowed with a volume form), we identify a hyperbolic balance law that enjoys the same Lorentz invariance property as the one satisfied by the Euler…
We consider a test particle moving in a random distribution of obstacles in the plane, under the action of a uniform magnetic field, orthogonal to the plane. We show that, in a weak coupling limit, the particle distribution behaves…
We formulate a short-time expansion for one-dimensional Fokker-Planck equations with spatially dependent diffusion coefficients, derived from stochastic processes with Gaussian white noise, for general values of the discretization parameter…
This work is devoted to examine the uniqueness and existence of kinetic solutions for a class of scalar conservation laws involving a nonlocal super-critical diffusion operator. Our proof for uniqueness is based upon the analysis on a…
This is the first of a series of papers devoted to the initial value problem for the Euler system of compressible fluids and augmented versions containing higher-order terms. We encompass solutions that have finite total energy and enjoy a…
This paper proposes a novel reaction-diffusion system approximation tailored for singular diffusion problems, typified by the fast diffusion equation. While such approximation methods have been successfully applied to degenerate parabolic…