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The seminal work of DiPerna and Lions [Invent. Math., 98, 1989] guarantees the existence and uniqueness of regular Lagrangian flows for Sobolev vector fields. The latter is a suitable selection of trajectories of the related ODE satisfying…
In this paper, we show the non-uniqueness of the weak solution in the class $\rho\in L^{s}_tL^p_x$ for the transport equation driven by a divergence-free vector field $\boldsymbol{u}\in L^{\tilde{s}}_tW^{1,q}_x\cap L_t^{s'}L_x^{p'}$ happens…
We obtain new quantitative estimates of the vanishing viscosity approximation for time-dependent, degenerate, Hamilton-Jacobi equations that are neither concave nor convex in the gradient and Hessian entries of the form $\partial_t…
We study the advection equation along vector fields singular at the initial time. More precisely, we prove that for divergence-free vector fields in $L^1_{loc}((0, T ]; BV (\mathbb{T}^d;\mathbb{R}^d))\cap L^2((0, T )…
We prove global existence and uniqueness of strong solutions to the logarithmic porous medium type equation with fractional diffusion $$ \partial_tu+(-\Delta)^{1/2}\log(1+u)=0, $$ posed for $x\in \mathbb{R}$, with nonnegative initial data…
We prove quantitative estimates on flows of ordinary differential equations with vector field with gradient given by a singular integral of an $L^1$ function. Such estimates allow to prove existence, uniqueness, quantitative stability and…
In the paper we consider the solution of an advection equation with rapidly changing coefficients $\partial_t u_\eps+(1/\eps)V(t\eps^{-2},x/{\eps})\cdot\nabla_x u_\eps=0$ for $t<T$ and $u_\eps(T,x)=u_0(x)$, $x\in\bbR^d$. Here $\eps>0$ is…
We explore the advection-diffusion of a passive vector described by $\partial_t u + U \cdot \nabla u = - \nabla p + \nu \Delta u$, where both $U$ and $u$ are divergence-free velocity fields. We approach this equation from an input/output…
We study a Lagrangian numerical scheme for solution of a nonlinear drift diffusion equation on an interval. The discretization is based on the equation's gradient flow structure with respect to the Wasserstein distance. The scheme inherits…
We construct infinitely many incompressible Sobolev vector fields $u \in C_t W^{1,\tilde p}_x$ on the periodic domain $\mathbb{T}^d$ for which uniqueness of solutions to the transport equation fails in the class of densities $\rho \in C_t…
We study the Lagrangian flow associated to velocity fields arising from various models of fluid mechanics subject to white-in-time, $H^s$-in-space stochastic forcing in a periodic box. We prove that in many circumstances, these flows are…
The advection-diffusion equation is studied via a global Lagrangian coordinate transformation. The metric tensor of the Lagrangian coordinates couples the dynamical system theory rigorously into the solution of this class of partial…
Transport of scalar fields in compressible flow is investigated. The effective equations governing the transport at scales large compared to those of the advecting flow are derived by using multi-scale techniques. Ballistic transport…
We investigate the transport equation: $u_t+b \cdot \nabla u=0$. Our result improves the criteria on uniqueness of weak solutions, replacing the classical condition: $\div b \in L_\infty$ by $\div b \in BMO$.
In this paper, we study flows associated to Sobolev vector fields with subexponentially integrable divergence. Our approach is based on the transport equation following DiPerna-Lions [DPL89]. A key ingredient is to use a quantitative…
We establish convergence as the viscosity vanishes of solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations to a solution of the Euler equations for inflow, outflow boundary conditions. We extend the approach of Temam and Wang 2002, allowing the…
This article considers the variational wave equation with viscosity and transport noise as a system of three coupled nonlinear stochastic partial differential equations. We prove pathwise global existence, uniqueness, and temporal…
We consider the Cauchy problem for a strictly hyperbolic, $n\times n$ system in one space dimension: $u_t+A(u)u_x=0$, assuming that the initial data has small total variation. We show that the solutions of the viscous approximations…
In this article we study (possibly degenerate) stochastic differential equations (SDE) with irregular (or discontiuous) coefficients, and prove that under certain conditions on the coefficients, there exists a unique almost everywhere…
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