Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)

Abstract: We consider the stationary Navier-Stokes equations in a three-dimensional curved thin domain around a given closed surface under the slip boundary conditions. Our aim is to show that a solution to the bulk equations is approximated by a solution to limit equations on the surface appearing in the thin-film limit of the bulk equations. To this end, we take the average of the bulk solution in the thin direction and estimate the difference of the averaged bulk solution and the surface solution. Then we combine an obtained difference estimate on the surface with an estimate for the difference of the bulk solution and its average to get a difference estimate for the bulk and surface solutions in the thin domain, which shows that the bulk solution is approximated by the surface one when the thickness of the thin domain is sufficiently small.

Abstract: We propose a model to describe an evolution of a bubble cluster with rupture. In a special case, the equation is reduced to a single parabolic equation with evaporation for the thickness of a liquid layer covering bubbles. We postulate that a bubble collapses if this liquid layer becomes thin. We call this collapse a rupture. We prove for our model that there is a periodic-in-time solution if the place of rupture occurs only in the largest bubble. Numerical tests indicate that there may not exist a periodic solution if such an assumption is violated.

Abstract: We construct a unique local strong solution to the finitely extensible nonlinear elastic (FENE) dumbbell model of Warner-type for an incompressible polymer fluid (described by the Navier-Stokes-Fokker-Planck equations) interacting with a flexible elastic shell. The latter occupies the flexible boundary of the polymer fluid domain and is modeled by a beam equation coupled through kinematic boundary conditions and the balance of forces. A main step in our approach is the proof of local well-posedness for just the solvent-structure system in higher-order topologies which is of independent interest. Different from most of the previous results in the literature, the reference spatial domain is an arbitrary smooth subset of $\mathbb{R}^3$, rather than a flat one. That is, we cover viscoelastic shells rather than elastic plates. Our result also supplements the existing literature on the Navier-Stokes-Fokker-Planck equations posed on a fixed bounded domain.

Abstract: The work investigates a model in the first half that combines a convection-diffusion equation for solute concentration with an unsteady Darcy-Brinkman equation for the flow field, including the Kortweg stress. Such models are used to describe flows in porous mediums such as fractured karst reservoirs, mineral wool, industrial foam, coastal mud, etc. The system of equations has Neumann boundary conditions for the solute concentration and no-flow conditions for the velocity field, and the well-posedness of the model is discussed for a wide range of initial data. In the second half, the study extends the model to include reactive solute transport under a forced flow field and precipitated flow where permeability varies with solute concentration. The existence and uniqueness of weak solutions are analyzed for these cases. Specifically, the study proves the existence and uniqueness of weak solutions for precipitated flow without reaction or body force, but the techniques used can be extended to the reactive precipitated and forced flow cases.

Abstract: In the last two decades, there has been a significant progress in the understanding of ergodic properties of white-forced dissipative PDEs. The previous studies mostly focus on equations posed on bounded domains since they rely on different compactness properties and the discreteness of the spectrum of the Laplacian. In the present paper, we consider the damped complex Ginzburg--Landau equation on the real line driven by a white-in-time noise. Under the assumption that the noise is sufficiently non-degenerate, we establish the uniqueness of stationary measure and exponential mixing in the dual-Lipschitz metric. The proof is based on coupling techniques combined with a generalization of Foia\c{s}--Prodi estimate to the case of the real line and special space-time weighted estimates which help to handle the behavior of solutions at infinity.

Abstract: We propose a model for cell polarization based on the Becker-D\"oring equations with the first coagulation coefficient equal to zero. We show convergence to equilibrium for power-law coagulation and fragmentation rates and obtain a loss of mass in the limit $t \rightarrow \infty$ depending on the initial mass and the relative strengths of the coagulation and fragmentation processes. In the case of linear rates, we further show that large clusters evolve in a self-similar manner at large times by comparing limits of appropriately rescaled solutions in different spaces.

Abstract: We prove that if $u : B_1 \subset \mathbb{R}^2 \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^n$ is a Lipschitz critical point of the area functional with respect to outer variations, then $u$ is smooth. This solves a conjecture of Lawson and Osserman from 1977 in the planar case.

Abstract: We propose a generalized curvature that is motivated by the optimal transport problem on $\mathbb{R}^d$ with cost induced by a Tonelli Lagrangian $L$. We show that non-negativity of the generalized curvature implies displacement convexity of the generalized entropy functional on the $L-$Wasserstein space along $C^2$ displacement interpolants.

Abstract: We prove concavity properties for solutions to anisotropic quasi-linear equations, extending previous results known in the Euclidean case. We focus the attention on nonsmooth anisotropies and in particular we also allow the functions describing the anisotropies to be not even.

Abstract: We study nonlocal integral equations on bounded domains with finite-range nonlocal interactions that are localized at the boundary. We establish a Green's identity for the nonlocal operator that recovers the classical boundary integral, which, along with the variational analysis established previously, leads to the well-posedness of these nonlocal problems with various types of classical local boundary conditions. We continue our analysis via boundary-localized convolutions, using them to analyze the Euler-Lagrange equations, which permits us to establish global regularity properties and classical Sobolev convergence to their classical local counterparts.

Abstract: We consider the Cauchy problem for fractional semilinear heat equations with supercritical nonlinearities and establish both necessary conditions and sufficient conditions for local-in-time solvability. We introduce the notion of a dilation-critical singularity (DCS) of the initial data and show that such singularities always exist for a large class of supercritical nonlinearities. Moreover, we provide exact formulae for such singularities.