Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)

Abstract: In this article, we analyze the stability of the parallel surface problem for semilinear equations driven by the fractional Laplacian. We prove a quantitative stability result that goes beyond that previously obtained in [Cir+23]. Moreover, we discuss in detail several techniques and challenges in obtaining the optimal exponent in this stability result. In particular, this includes an upper bound on the exponent via an explicit computation involving a family of ellipsoids. We also sharply investigate a technique that was proposed in [Cir+18] to obtain the optimal stability exponent in the quantitative estimate for the nonlocal Alexandrov's soap bubble theorem, obtaining accurate estimates to be compared with a new, explicit example.

Abstract: We establish local-in-time and global in time well-posedness for small data, for a coupled system of nonlinear acoustic structure interactions. The model consists of the nonlinear Westervelt equation on a bounded domain with non homogeneous boundary conditions, coupled with a 4th order linear equation defined on a lower dimensional interface occupying part of the boundary of the domain, with transmission boundary conditions matching acoustic velocities and acoustic pressures. While the well-posedness of the Westervelt model has been well studied in the literature, there has been no works on the literature on the coupled structure acoustic interaction model involving the Westervelt equation. Another contribution of this work, is a novel variational weak formulation of the linearized system and a consideration of various boundary conditions.

Abstract: We study stationary, periodic solutions to the thermocapillary thin-film model \begin{equation*} \partial_t h + \partial_x \Bigl(h^3(\partial_x^3 h - g\partial_x h) + M\frac{h^2}{(1+h)^2}\partial_xh\Bigr) = 0,\quad t>0,\ x\in \mathbb{R}, \end{equation*} which can be derived from the B\'enard-Marangoni problem via a lubrication approximation. When the Marangoni number $M$ increases beyond a critical value $M^*$, the constant solution becomes spectrally unstable via a (conserved) long-wave instability and periodic stationary solutions bifurcate. For a fixed period, we find that these solutions lie on a global bifurcation curve of stationary, periodic solutions with a fixed wave number and mass. Furthermore, we show that the stationary periodic solutions on the global bifurcation branch converge to a weak stationary periodic solution which exhibits film rupture. The proofs rely on a Hamiltonian formulation of the stationary problem and the use of analytic global bifurcation theory. Finally, we show the instability of the bifurcating solutions close to the bifurcation point and give a formal derivation of the amplitude equation governing the dynamics close to the onset of instability.

Abstract: We generalize the known collision results for a solid in a 3D compressible Newtonian fluid to compressible non-Newtonian ones, and to Newtonian fluids with temperature depending viscosities.

Abstract: We study integro-differential elliptic equations (of order $2s$) with variable coefficients, and prove the natural and most general Schauder-type estimates that can hold in this setting, both in divergence and non-divergence form. Furthermore, we also establish H\"older estimates for general elliptic equations with no regularity assumption on $x$, including for the first time operators like $\sum_{i=1}^n(-\partial^2_{\textbf{v}_i(x)})^s$, provided that the coefficients have ``small oscillation''.

Abstract: In the diffusive scaling and in the whole space, we prove the global well-posedness of the scaled Boltzmann-Bose-Einstein (briefly, BBE) equation with high temperature in the low regularity space $H^2_xL^2$. In particular, we quantify the fluctuation around the Bose-Einstein equilibrium $\mathcal{M}_{\lambda,T}(v)$ with respect to the parameters $\lambda$ and temperature $T$. Furthermore, the estimate for the diffusively scaled BBE equation is uniform to the Knudsen number $\epsilon$. As a consequence, we rigorously justify the hydrodynamic limit to the incompressible Navier-Stokes-Fourier equations. This is the first rigorous fluid limit result for BBE.