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We analyze the behavior of third-order in time linear and nonlinear sound waves in thermally relaxing fluids and gases as the sound diffusivity vanishes. The nonlinear acoustic propagation is modeled by the Jordan--Moore--Gibson--Thompson…
We construct a fundamental piece of the boundary of the maximal globally hyperbolic development (MGHD) of Cauchy data for the multi-dimensional compressible Euler equations, which is necessary for the local shock development problem. For an…
The space of Wilson coefficients of EFT that can be UV completed into consistent theories was recently shown to be described analytically by a positive geometry, termed the EFThedron. However, this geometry, as well as complementary…
In this manuscript, we investigate geometric regularity estimates for problems governed by quasi-linear elliptic models in non-divergence form, which may exhibit either degenerate or singular behavior when the gradient vanishes, under…
This paper is concerned with the study of a class of nonsmooth cost functions subject to a quasi-linear PDE in Lipschitz domains in dimension two. We derive the Eulerian semi-derivative of the cost function by employing the averaged adjoint…
In this article, we use the general theory derived in the companion paper [M. Tacu and D. B\'enisti, Phys. Plasmas (2021)] in order to address several long-standing issues regarding nonlinear electron plasma waves (EPW's). First, we discuss…
A numerical algorithm is proposed to explore in a systematic way the trajectories of the eigenvalues of non-Hermitian matrices in the parametric space and exploit this in order to find the locations of defective eigenvalues in the complex…
We consider a hydrodynamic description of the spherically symmetric outward flow of nuclear matter, accommodating dispersion in it as a very weak effect. About the resulting stationary conditions in the flow, we apply an Eulerian scheme to…
We construct and justify leading order weakly nonlinear geometric optics expansions for nonlinear hyperbolic initial value problems, including the compressible Euler equations. The technique of simultaneous Picard iteration is employed to…
Shape optimization with constraints given by partial differential equations (PDE) is a highly developed field of optimization theory. The elegant adjoint formalism allows to compute shape gradients at the computational cost of a further PDE…
A form of the conservation equations for fluid dynamics is presented, deduced using slightly less restrictive hypothesis than those necessary to obtain the Westervelt equation. This formulation accounts for full wave diffraction,…
Efficient time integration methods based on operator splitting are introduced for the Westervelt equation, a nonlinear damped wave equation that arises in nonlinear acoustics as mathematical model for the propagation of sound waves in high…
In electrocardiography, the "classic" inverse problem is the reconstruction of electric potentials at a surface enclosing the heart from remote recordings at the body surface and an accurate description of the anatomy. The latter being…
Nonlinear ion-acoustic cnoidal wave structures are studied in an unmagnetized quantum plasma. Using the reductive perturbation method, a Korteweg-de Vries equation is derived for appropriate boundary conditions and nonlinear periodic wave…
The Taylor expansion of wave fields with respect to shape parameters has a wide range of applications in wave scattering problems, including inverse scattering, optimal design, and uncertainty quantification. However, deriving the high…
We investigate the Cauchy problem for a quasilinear equation with transport rough input of the form $\mathrm{d} u-\partial_i(a^{ij}(u)\partial_j u)\mathrm{d} t =\mathrm{d} \mathbf{X}_t^i(x)\partial_i u_t,$ $u_0\in L^2$ on the torus $\mathbb…
Consider the quasilinear diffusion problem \[\begin{cases}\mathbf{u}'+\Pi(t,x,\mathbf{u},\Sigma \mathbf{u})\mathbb{A}\mathbf{u}=\mathbf{f}(t,x,\mathbf{u},\Sigma \mathbf{u})&\text{ in }]0,T[\times\Omega,\\\mathbf{u}=\mathbf{0}&\text{ in…
We investigate a one-dimensional nonlinear wave system which arises from a variational principle modeling a type of cholesteric liquid crystals. The problem treated here is the Cauchy problem for the same wave speed case with initial data…
The Cauchy problem for the nonlinear wave equation $$\Box u=(\partial u)^2, \qquad u(0)=u_0, u_t(0)=u_1$$ in three space dimensions is considered. The data $(u_0,u_1)$ are assumed to belong to $\widehat{H}^r_s(\R^3) \times…
We use a rough path-based approach to investigate the degeneracy problem in the context of pathwise control. We extend the framework developed in arXiv:1902.05434 to treat admissible controls from a suitable class of H\"older continuous…