Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)

Abstract: In this paper, we study a class of double phase systems which contain the singular and mixed nonlinear terms. Unlike the single equation, the mixed nonlinear terms make the problem more complicate. The geometry of the fibering mapping has multiple possibilities. To overcome the difficulties posed by the mixed nonlinear terms, we need to repeatedly construct concave functions, discuss different cases, and use the properties of concave functions and basic inequalities such as H\"{o}lder inequality, Poincar\'{e}'s inequality and Young's inequality. By the use of the Nehari manifold, the existence and multiplicity of positive solutions which have nonnegative energy are obtained.

Abstract: Starting from coupled fluid-kinetic equations for the modeling of laden flows, we derive relevant viscous corrections to be added to asymptotic hydrodynamic systems, by means of Chapman-Enskog expansions and analyse the shock profile structure for such limiting systems. Our main findings can be summarized as follows. Firstly, we consider simplified models, which are intended to reproduce the main difficulties and features of more intricate systems. However, while they are more easily accessible to analysis, such toy-models should be considered with caution since they might lose many important structural properties of the more realistic systems. Secondly, shock profiles can be identified also in such a case, which can be proven to be stable at least in the regime of small amplitude shocks. Last, but not least, regarding at the temperature of the mixture flow as a parameter of the problem, we show that the zero-temperature model admits viscous shock profiles. Numerical results indicate that a similar conclusion should apply in the regime of small positive temperatures.

Abstract: In this paper, we study the long time behaviour of the Fokker-Planck and the kinetic Fokker-Planck equations with many body interaction, more precisely with interaction defined by U-statistics, whose macroscopic limits are often called McKean-Vlasov and Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equations respectively. In the continuity of the recent papers [63, [43],[42]] and [44, [74],[75]], we establish nonlinear functional inequalities for the limiting McKean-Vlasov SDEs related to our particle systems. In the first order case, our results rely on large deviations for U-statistics and a uniform logarithmic Sobolev inequality in the number of particles for the invariant measure of the particle system. In the kinetic case, we first prove a uniform (in the number of particles) exponential convergence to equilibrium for the solutions in the weighted Sobolev space H 1 ($\mu$) with a rate of convergence which is explicitly computable and independent of the number of particles. In a second time, we quantitatively establish an exponential return to equilibrium in Wasserstein's W 2 --metric for the Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation.

Abstract: We discuss the Navier-Stokes equations with forces in the mixed norm time-space parabolic Morrey spaces of Krylov.

Abstract: We study the Aw-Rascle system in a one-dimensional domain with periodic boundary conditions, where the offset function is replaced by the gradient of the function $\rho_{n}^{\gamma}$, where $\gamma \to \infty$. The resulting system resembles the 1D pressureless compressible Navier-Stokes system with a vanishing viscosity coefficient in the momentum equation and can be used to model traffic and suspension flows. We first prove the existence of a unique global-in-time classical solution for $n$ fixed. Unlike the previous result for this system, we obtain global existence without needing to add any approximation terms to the system. This is by virtue of a $n-$uniform lower bound on the density which is attained by carrying out a maximum-principle argument on a suitable potential, $W_{n} = \rho_{n}^{-1}\partial_{x}w_{n}$. Then, we prove the convergence to a weak solution of a hybrid free-congested system as $n \to \infty$, which is known as the hard-congestion model.

Abstract: We prove a strong form of the comparison principle for the elliptic Monge-Ampere equation, with a Dirichlet boundary condition interpreted in the viscosity sense. This comparison principle is valid when the equation admits a Lipschitz continuous weak solution. The result is tight, as demonstrated by examples in which the strong comparison principle fails in the absence of Lipschitz continuity. This form of comparison principle closes a significant gap in the convergence analysis of many existing numerical methods for the Monge-Ampere equation. An important corollary is that any consistent, monotone, stable approximation of the Dirichlet problem for the Monge-Ampere equation will converge to the viscosity solution.

Abstract: In this paper, we introduce a family of real Monge-Amp\`ere functionals and study their variational properties. We prove a Sobolev type inequality for these functionals and use this to study the existence and uniqueness of some associated Dirichlet problems. In particular, we prove the existence of solutions for a nonlinear eigenvalue problem associated to this family of functionals.

Abstract: In this paper, we are concerned with the one-dimensional initial boundary value problem for isentropic gas dynamics. Through the contribution of great researchers such as Lax, P. D., Glimm, J., DiPerna, R. J. and Liu, T. P., the decay theory of solutions was established. They treated with the Cauchy problem and the corresponding initial data have the small total variation. On the other hand, the decay for initial data with large oscillation has been open for half a century. In addition, due to the reflection of shock waves at the boundaries, little is known for the decay of the boundary value problem on a bounded interval. Our goal is to prove the existence of a global attractor, which yields a decay of solutions for large data. To construct approximate solutions, we introduce a modified Godunov scheme.