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We develop a Lagrangian approach to conservation-law anomalies in weak solutions of inviscid Burgers equation, motivated by previous work on the Kraichnan model of turbulent scalar advection. We show that the entropy solutions of Burgers…
We prove that for bounded, divergence-free vector fields in $L^1_{loc}((0,+\infty);BV_{loc}(R^d;R^d))$, regularisation by convolution of the vector field selects a single solution of the transport equation for any integrable initial datum.…
We study the linear transport equation \[ \frac{\partial}{\partial t} u ( t,x ) +b ( t,x ) \cdot \nabla u ( t,x ) + \nabla u ( t,x ) \cdot \frac{\partial}{\partial t} X ( t ) =0, \hspace{2em} u ( 0,x ) =u_{0} ( x ) \] where $b$ is a…
We study the behaviour of various Lyapunov functionals (relative entropies) along the solutions of a family of nonlinear drift-diffusion-reaction equations coming from statistical mechanics and population dynamics. These equations can be…
We prove that given initial data $\omega_0\in L^\infty(\mathbb{T}^2)$, forcing $g\in L^\infty(0,T; L^\infty(\mathbb{T}^2))$, and any $T>0$, the solutions $u^\nu$ of Navier-Stokes converge strongly in $L^\infty(0,T;W^{1,p}(\mathbb{T}^2))$…
In this paper, we establish the convergence of solutions to the viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equation (with a Tonelli Hamiltonian): \[ \lambda u +H(x, du)=\varepsilon(\lambda)\Delta u,\quad \lambda>0 \] as $\lambda\rightarrow 0_+$, once the…
We consider the Dirichlet problem for a compressible two-fluid model in three dimensions, and obtain the global existence of weak solution with large initial data and independent adiabatic constants \Gamma,\gamma>=9/5. The pressure…
In this note we study the singular vanishing-viscosity limit of a gradient flow set in a finite-dimensional Hilbert space and driven by a smooth, but possibly non convex, time-dependent energy functional. We resort to ideas and techniques…
The convective transport in a multicomponent isothermal compressible fluid subject to the mass continuity equations is considered. The velocity is proportional to the negative pressure gradient, according to Darcy's law, and the pressure is…
We study the mean curvature flow with given non-smooth transport term and forcing term, in suitable Sobolev spaces. We prove the global existence of the weak solutions for the mean curvature flow with the terms, by using the modified…
Many partial differential equations (PDEs) such as Navier--Stokes equations in fluid mechanics, inelastic deformation in solids, and transient parabolic and hyperbolic equations do not have an exact, primal variational structure. Recently,…
This paper proves existence of a global weak solution to the inhomogeneous (i.e., non-constant density) incompressible Navier-Stokes system with mass diffusion. The system is well-known as the Kazhikhov-Smagulov model. The major novelty of…
We establish the vanishing viscosity limit of viscous Burgers-Vlasov equations for one dimensional kinetic model about interactions between a viscous fluid and dispersed particles by using compensated compactness technique and the evolution…
In this paper, we study various aspects of the ODE's flow $X$ solution to the equation $\partial_t X(t,x)=b(X(t,x))$, $X(0,x)=x$ in the $d$-dimensional torus $Y_d$, where $b$ is a regular $\mathbb{Z}^d$-periodic vector field from…
We consider the density properties of divergence-free vector fields $ b \in L^1([0,1],\textit{BV}([0,1]^2)) $ which are ergodic/weakly mixing/strongly mixing: this means that their Regular Lagrangian Flow $X_t$ is an ergodic/weakly…
We investigate an anisotropic vanishing viscosity limit of the 3D stochastic Navier-Stokes equations posed between two horizontal plates, with Dirichlet no-slip boundary condition. The turbulent viscosity is split into horizontal and…
An elegant quaternionic formulation is given for the Lagrangian advection equation for velocity vector potential in fluid dynamics. At first we study the topological significance of a restricted conserved quantity viz., stream-helicity and…
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In a real Hilbert space $\mathcal H$, we study the fast convergence properties as $t \to + \infty$ of the trajectories of the second-order evolution equation $$ \ddot{x}(t) + \frac{\alpha}{t} \dot{x}(t) + \nabla \Phi (x(t)) = 0, $$ where…
DiPerna-Lions (Invent. Math. 1989) established the existence and uniqueness results for linear transport equations with Sobolev velocity fields. This paper provides mathematical analysis on two simple finite difference methods applied to…