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We study the evolution of a self-gravitating compressible fluid in spherical symmetry and we prove the existence of weak solutions with bounded variation for the Einstein-Euler equations of general relativity. We formulate the initial value…

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We consider Einstein's equations coupled to the Euler equations in plane symmetry, with compact spatial slices and constant mean curvature time. We show that for a wide variety of equations of state and a large class of initial data,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-06-11 Alan D. Rendall , Fredrik Ståhl

We construct finite time blow-up solutions to the 2-dimensional harmonic map flow into the sphere $S^2$, \begin{align*} u_t & = \Delta u + |\nabla u|^2 u \quad \text{in } \Omega\times(0,T) \\ u &= \varphi \quad \text{on } \partial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-18 Juan Davila , Manuel del Pino , Juncheng Wei

This study derives conservative and skew-symmetric formulations of the incompressible flow equations in a terrain-following sigma-coordinate system that preserve key structural properties of the Cartesian formulation. Unlike conventional…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-27 Jaeyoung Jung , Marco Giometto

In this work we systematically derive the governing equations of supersonic conical flow by projecting the 3D Euler equations onto the unit sphere. These equations result from taking the assumption of conical invariance on the 3D flow…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Ian Holloway , Sivaguru S. Sritharan

In this paper we construct smooth, non-radial solutions of the compressible Euler and Navier-Stokes equation that develop an imploding finite time singularity. Our construction is motivated by the works [Merle, Rapha\"{e}l, Rodnianski, and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Gonzalo Cao-Labora , Javier Gómez-Serrano , Jia Shi , Gigliola Staffilani

In this work we consider a finite dimensional approximation for the 2D Euler equations on the sphere, proposed by V. Zeitlin, and show their convergence towards a solution to Euler equations with marginals distributed as the enstrophy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Franco Flandoli , Umberto Pappalettera , Milo Viviani

The continuous injection of energy in a stationary gas creates a shock wave that propagates radially outwards. We study the hydrodynamics of this disturbance using event driven molecular dynamics of a hard sphere gas in two and three…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-07 Amit Kumar , R. Rajesh

Solutions to the compressible Euler equations in all dimensions have been shown to develop finite-time singularities from smooth initial data such as shocks and cusps. There is an extraordinary list of results on this subject. When the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-10 Jiahong Wu , Fuyi Xu , Xiaoping Zhai

In this paper, we construct a family of global solutions to the incompressible Euler equation on a standard 2-sphere. These solutions are odd-symmetric with respect to the equatorial plane and rotate with a constant angular speed around the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-13 Daomin Cao , Shuanglong Li , Guodong Wang

We study the long-time behavior of scale-invariant solutions of the 2d Euler equation satisfying a discrete symmetry. We show that all scale-invariant solutions with bounded variation on $\mathbb{S}^1$ relax to states that are piece-wise…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Tarek. M. Elgindi , Ryan. W. Murray , Ayman. R. Said

We study the two-dimensional structural stability of shock waves in a compressible isentropic inviscid elastic fluid in the sense of the local-in-time existence and uniqueness of discontinuous shock front solutions of the equations of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-21 Alessandro Morando , Yuri Trakhinin , Paola Trebeschi

We define compressive and rarefactive waves and give the differential equations describing smooth wave steepening for the compressible Euler equations with a varying entropy profile and general pressure laws. Using these differential…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-05-03 Geng Chen

In his 2007 monograph, D. Christodoulou proved a remarkable result giving a detailed description of shock formation, for small $H^s$-initial conditions ($s$ sufficiently large), in solutions to the relativistic Euler equations in three…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-17 Gustav Holzegel , Sergiu Klainerman , Jared Speck , Willie Wong

This paper focuses on the structure of classical sonic-supersonic solutions near sonic curves for the two-dimensional full Euler equations in gas dynamics. In order to deal with the parabolic degeneracy near the sonic curve, a novel set of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-23 Yanbo Hu , Jiequan Li

We prove finite-time vorticity blowup for smooth solutions of the 2D compressible Euler equations with smooth, localized, and non-vacuous initial data. The vorticity blowup occurs at the time of the first singularity, and is accompanied by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-10 Jiajie Chen , Giorgio Cialdea , Steve Shkoller , Vlad Vicol

We present some recent developments on shock capturing methods for nonlinear hyperbolic systems of balance laws, whose prototype is the Euler system of compressible fluid flows, and especially discuss {structure-preserving} techniques. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-29 Philippe G. LeFloch

We study the Cauchy problem for the $3D$ compressible Euler equations under an arbitrary equation of state with positive speed of sound, aside from that of a Chaplygin gas. For open sets of smooth initial data with non-trivial vorticity and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-15 Leo Abbrescia , Jared Speck

The geodesic total curvature of rectifiable spherical curves is analyzed. We extend to the case of high dimension spheres the explicit formula that holds true for curves supported into the 2-sphere. For this purpose, we take advantage of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-13 Domenico Mucci , Alberto Saracco

We establish the existence, stability, and asymptotic behavior of transonic flows with a transonic shock past a curved wedge for the steady full Euler equations in an important physical regime, which form a nonlinear system of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-02 Gui-Qiang Chen , Jun Chen , Mikhail Feldman