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We are concerned with the formation of singularities and the existence of global continuous solutions of the Cauchy problem for the one-dimensional non-isentropic Euler equations for compressible fluids. For the isentropic Euler equations,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-09 Geng Chen , Gui-Qiang G. Chen , Shengguo Zhu

This article is devoted to the study of the Hele-Shaw equation. We introduce an approach inspired by the water-wave theory. Starting from a reduction to the boundary, introducing the Dirichlet to Neumann operator and exploiting various…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Thomas Alazard , Nicolas Meunier , Didier Smets

The classical model for studying one-phase Hele-Shaw flows is based on a highly nonlinear moving boundary problem with the fluid velocity related to pressure gradients via a Darcy-type law. In a standard configuration with the Hele-Shaw…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-27 Liam C. Morrow , Timothy J. Moroney , Michael C. Dallaston , Scott W. McCue

It is well known that, at a macroscopic level, the boundary condition for a viscous fluid at a solid wall is one of "no-slip". The liquid velocity field vanishes at a fixed solid boundary. In this paper, we consider the special case of a…

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The term pristine interface was introduced by Beattie and Djerdjev 20 years ago for emulsions that consist of only water and oil with no surfactant. They are different from Pickering emulsions, which are also surfactant-free but stabilized…

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A plane turbulent mixing in a shear flow of an ideal homogeneous fluid confined between two relatively close rigid walls is considered. The character of the flow is determined by interaction of vortices arising at the nonlinear stage of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-15 Alexander Chesnokov , Valery Liapidevskii

Multiphase mechanical models are now commonly used to describe living tissues including tumour growth. The specific model we study here consists of two equations of mixed parabolic and hyperbolic type which extend the standard compressible…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Federica Bubba , Benoît Perthame , Camille Pouchol , Markus Schmidtchen

We investigate quasi-two-dimensional relaxation, by surface tension, of a long straight stripe of inviscid fluid trapped inside a viscous fluid in a Hele-Shaw cell. Combining analytical and numerical solutions, we describe the emergence of…

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Local and global well-posedness, along with finite time blow-up, are investigated for the following Hardy-H\'enon equation involving a quasilinear degenerate diffusion and a space-dependent superlinear source featuring a singular potential…

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We have studied the kinetic roughening of an oil--air interface in a forced imbibition experiment in a horizontal Hele--Shaw cell with quenched disorder. Different disorder configurations, characterized by their persistence length in the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 Jordi Soriano , Jordi Ortin , Aurora Hernandez-Machado

This paper establishes finite-time splash singularity formation for 3D viscous incompressible neo-Hookean elastodynamics with free boundaries. The system features mixed stress-kinematic conditions where viscous-elastic stresses balance…

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We study the boundary of the liquid region $\mathcal{L}$ in large random lozenge tiling models defined by uniform random interlacing particle systems with general initial configuration, which lies on the line $(x,1)$, $x\in\mathbb{R}\equiv…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-09-24 Erik Duse , Anthony Metcalfe

The purpose of this study is twofold. First, we revisit a shape optimization reformulation of a prototypical shape inverse problem and briefly propose a simple yet efficient numerical approach for solving the corresponding minimization…

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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…

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In this paper, we construct solutions of Lagrangian mean curvature flow which exist and are embedded for all time, but form an infinite-time singularity and converge to an immersed special Lagrangian as $t\to\infty$. In particular, the flow…

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In this paper we study the Burgers equation with a nonlocal term of the form $Hu$ where $H$ is the Hilbert transform. This system has been considered as a quadratic approximation for the dynamics of a free boundary of a vortex patch. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Angel Castro , Diego Cordoba , Francisco Gancedo

We consider a class of Cahn-Hilliard equation that models phase separation process of binary mixtures involving nontrivial boundary interactions in a bounded domain with non-permeable wall. The system is characterized by certain dynamic…

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There is an ongoing debate concerning the best rheological model for liquid flows in elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHL). Due to the small contact area and high relative velocities of bounding solids, the lubricant experiences pressures in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-03-12 Vikram Jadhao , Mark O. Robbins

In order to find out whether empty singular boundaries can arise in higher dimensional Gravity, we study the solution of Einstein's equations consisting in a ($N+2$)-dimensional static and hyperplane symmetric perfect fluid satisfying the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-21 Ricardo E. Gamboa Saravi

We investigate Kantowski-Sachs models in Einstein-{\ae}ther theory with a perfect fluid source using the singularity analysis to prove the integrability of the field equations and dynamical system tools to study the evolution. We find an…

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