Exact boundary observability for nonautonomous first-order quasilinear hyperbolic systems

By means of the theory on the semiglobal C¹ solution to the mixed initial-boundary value problem for first-order quasilinear hyperbolic systems, we establish the local exact boundary observability for general nonautonomous first-order quasilinear hyperbolic systems without zero eigenvalues and reveal the essential difference between nonautonomous hyperbolic systems and autonomous hyperbolic systems. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Global structure instability of Riemann solutions for general quasilinear hyperbolic systems of conservation laws in the presence of a boundary

This work is a continuation of our previous work [Z.-Q. Shao, D.-X. Kong, Y.-C. Li, Shock reflection for general quasilinear hyperbolic systems of conservation laws, Nonlinear Anal. TMA 66 (1) (2007) 93-124]. In this paper, we study the global structure instability of the Riemann solution containing shocks, at least one rarefaction wave for general n×n quasilinear hyperbolic systems of conservation laws in the presence of a boundary. We prove the nonexistence of global piecewise C¹ solution to a class of the mixed initial-boundary value problem for general n×n quasilinear hyperbolic systems of conservation laws on the quarter plane. Our result indicates that this kind of Riemann solution mentioned above for general n×n quasilinear hyperbolic systems of conservation laws in the presence of a boundary is globally structurally unstable. Some applications to quasilinear hyperbolic systems of conservation laws arising from physics and mechanics are also given.     

Point‐wise decay estimate for the global classical solutions to quasilinear hyperbolic systems

In this paper, we first consider the Cauchy problem for quasilinear strictly hyperbolic systems with weak linear degeneracy. The existence of global classical solutions for small and decay initial data was established in (Commun. Partial Differential Equations 1994; 19 :1263–1317; Nonlinear Anal. 1997; 28 :1299–1322; Chin. Ann. Math. 2004; 25B :37–56). We give a new, very simple proof of this result and also give a sharp point‐wise decay estimate of the solution. Then, we consider the mixed initial‐boundary‐value problem for quasilinear hyperbolic systems with nonlinear boundary conditions in the first quadrant. Under the assumption that the positive eigenvalues are weakly linearly degenerate, the global existence of classical solution with small and decay initial and boundary data was established in (Discrete Continuous Dynamical Systems 2005; 12 (1):59–78; Zhou and Yang, in press). We also give a simple proof of this result as well as a sharp point‐wise decay estimate of the solution. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Exact boundary controllability for a kind of second‐order quasilinear hyperbolic systems and its applications

In this paper, by means of a constructive method based on the existence and uniqueness of the semi‐global C² solution, we establish the local exact boundary controllability for a kind of second‐order quasilinear hyperbolic systems. As an application, we obtain the one‐sided local exact boundary controllability for the first‐order quasilinear hyperbolic systems of diagonal form with boundary conditions in which the diagonal variables corresponding to the positive eigenvalues and those corresponding to the negative eigenvalues are decoupled. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Global solutions with shock waves to the generalized Riemann problem for a class of quasilinear hyperbolic systems of balance laws II

This work is a continuation of our previous work. In the present paper, we study the existence and uniqueness of global piecewise C¹ solutions with shock waves to the generalized Riemann problem for general quasilinear hyperbolic systems of conservation laws with linear damping in the presence of a boundary. It is shown that the generalized Riemann problem for general quasilinear hyperbolic systems of conservation laws with linear damping with nonlinear boundary conditions in the half space {(t, x) | t ≥ 0, x ≥ 0} admits a unique global piecewise C¹ solution u = u (t, x) containing only shock waves with small amplitude and this solution possesses a global structure similar to that of a self‐similar solution u = U (x /t) of the corresponding homogeneous Riemann problem, if each characteristic field with positive velocity is genuinely nonlinear and the corresponding homogeneous Riemann problem has only shock waves but no rarefaction waves and contact discontinuities. This result is also applied to shock reflection for the flow equations of a model class of fluids with viscosity induced by fading memory. (© 2008 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

On Quasilinear Generalized Canonical Hyperbolic Systems of First-Order Partial Differential Equations

By using the method of characteristics, we prove theorems on continuous solvability and on properties of solutions of the mixed Cauchy boundary-value problem for the generalized canonical hyperbolic system of quasilinear partial differential equations of the first order in a general connected domain in (m+ 1)-dimensions.     

Exact Controllability for Nonautonomous First Order Quasilinear Hyperbolic Systems

By means of the theory on the semi-global C1 solution to the mixed initial-boundary value problem (IBVP) for first order quasilinear hyperbolic systems, we establish the exact controllability for general nonautonomous first order quasilinear hyperbolic systems with general nonlinear boundary conditions.     

The generalized nonlinear initial-boundary Riemann problem for linearly degenerate quasilinear hyperbolic systems of conservation laws

This work is a continuation of our previous work, in the present paper we study the generalized nonlinear initial-boundary Riemann problem with small BV data for linearly degenerate quasilinear hyperbolic systems of conservation laws with nonlinear boundary conditions in a half space . We prove the global existence and uniqueness of piecewise C¹ solution containing only contact discontinuities to a class of the generalized nonlinear initial-boundary Riemann problem, which can be regarded as a small BV perturbation of the corresponding nonlinear initial-boundary Riemann problem, for general n×n linearly degenerate quasilinear hyperbolic system of conservation laws; moreover, this solution has a global structure similar to the one of the self-similar solution to the corresponding nonlinear initial-boundary Riemann problem. Some applications to quasilinear hyperbolic systems of conservation laws arising in the string theory and high energy physics are also given.     

The Cauchy problem for quasilinear SG‐hyperbolic systems

We study the Cauchy problem for a class of quasilinear hyperbolic systems with coefficients depending on (t, x) ∈ [0, T ] × ?ⁿ and presenting a linear growth for |x | → ∞. We prove well‐posedness in the Schwartz space ?? (?ⁿ ). The result is obtained by deriving an energy estimate for the solution of the linearized problem in some weighted Sobolev spaces and applying a fixed point argument. (© 2007 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Weak linear degeneracy and global classical solutions for general quasilinear hyperbolic systems

By introducing the concept of the weak linear degeneracy the authors give a complete result for the global existence and for the life span of C¹ solutions to the Cauchy problem for general first order quasilinear hyperbolic systems with initial data small in C¹ norm and with compact support.     

Global structure stability of Riemann solutions of quasilinear hyperbolic systems of conservation laws: shocks and contact discontinuities

In this paper, the author proves the global structure stability of the Lax's Riemann solution , containing only shocks and contact discontinuities, of general n×n quasilinear hyperbolic system of conservation laws. More precisely, the author proves the global existence and uniqueness of the piecewise C¹ solution u=u(t,x) of a class of generalized Riemann problem, which can be regarded as a perturbation of the corresponding Riemann problem, for the quasilinear hyperbolic system of conservation laws; moreover, this solution has a global structure similar to that of the solution . Combining the results in Kong (Global structure instability of Riemann solutions of quasilinear hyperbolic systems of conservation laws: rarefaction waves, to appear), the author proves that the Lax's Riemann solution of general n×n quasilinear hyperbolic system of conservation laws is globally structurally stable if and only if it contains only non-degenerate shocks and contact discontinuities, but no rarefaction waves and other weak discontinuities.     

Exact Boundary Controllability for a Kind of Second-Order Quasilinear Hyperbolic Systems

Based on the theory of semi-global C ¹ solution and the local exact boundary controllability for first-order quasilinear hyperbolic systems, the local exact boundary controllability for a kind of second-order quasilinear hyperbolic systems is obtained by a constructive method.     

高阶拟线性双曲型方程的精确边界能控性

By means of the existence and uniqueness of semi-global C^1 solution to the mixed initial-boundary value problem with general nonlinear boundary conditions for first order quasilinear hyperbolic systems with zero eigenvalues ,the local exact boundary controllability for higher order quasilinear hyperbolic equations is established.     

Contrôlabilité exacte frontière pour les équations des ondes quasi linéaires unidimensionnelles

By means of the existence and uniqueness of semi-global C¹ solution to the mixed initial-boundary value problem with general nonlinear boundary conditions for first order quasilinear hyperbolic systems with zero eigenvalues, we present a unified method to establish the exact boundary controllability for 1-D quasilinear wave equations with boundary conditions of different types. To cite this article: T.T. Li, L.X. Yu, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. I 337 (2003).     

Global Exisienoe of Classical Solutions to the Typical Free Boundary Problem for General Quasilinear Hyperbolic Systems and Its Applications

In this paper the authors prove the existence and uniqueness of global classical solutions to the typical free boundary problem for general quasilinear hyperbolic systems. As an application, a unique global discontinuous solution only containing n shocks on t \leq 0 is obtained for a class of generalized Riemann problem for the quasilinear hyperbolic system of n conservation laws.     

Global existence of classical solutions of Goursat problem for quasilinear hyperbolic systems with BV data

We investigate the existence of a global classical solution to the Goursat problem for linearly degenerate quasilinear hyperbolic systems. As the result in [A. Bressan, Contractive metrics for nonlinear hyperbolic systems, Indiana Univ. Math. J. 37 (1988) 409–421] suggests that one may achieve global smoothness even if the C¹ norm of the initial data is large, we prove that, if the C¹ norm of the boundary data is bounded but possibly large, and the BV norm of the boundary data is sufficiently small, then the solution remains C¹ globally in time. Applications include the equation of time‐like extremal surfaces in Minkowski space R^{1 + (1 + n)} and the one‐dimensional Chaplygin gas equations. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Exact boundary controllability of unsteady flows in a network of open canals

By means of the general results on the exact boundary controllability for quasilinear hyperbolic systems, the author establishes the exact boundary controllability of unsteady flows in both a single open canal and a network of open canals with star configuration respectively. (© 2005 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Cauchy problem for quasilinear hyperbolic systems with higher order dissipative terms

In this paper the author first investigates the global existence, singularites and life span of C ¹ solutions to the Cauchy problem for quasilinear hyperbolic systems with higher order dissipative terms and give some applications with physical interest. Received April 4, 1996     

Global structure instability of Riemann solutions of quasilinear hyperbolic systems of conservation laws: Rarefaction waves

This work is a continuation of our previous work (Kong, J. Differential Equations 188 (2003) 242-271) “Global structure stability of Riemann solutions of quasilinear hyperbolic systems of conservation laws: shocks and contact discontinuities”. In the present paper we prove the global structure instability of the Lax's Riemann solution , containing rarefaction waves, of general n×n quasilinear hyperbolic system of conservation laws. Combining the results in (Kong, 2003), we prove that the Lax's Riemann solution of general n×n quasilinear hyperbolic system of conservation laws is globally structurally stable if and only if it contains only non-degenerate shocks and contact discontinuities, but no rarefaction waves and other weak discontinuities.     

Exact boundary observability for a kind of second order quasilinear hyperbolic systems and its applications

In this paper, by means of a constructive method based on the existence and uniqueness of the semi-global C² solution, we establish the local exact boundary observability for a kind of second order quasilinear hyperbolic systems. As an application, we obtain the one-sided local exact boundary observability for a kind of first order quasilinear hyperbolic systems of diagonal form with boundary conditions in which the diagonal variables corresponding to the positive eigenvalues and those corresponding to the negative eigenvalues are decoupled.