Asymptotic analysis of the primitive equations under the small depth assumption

In this article we study the asymptotic behavior of solutions of the primitive equations (PEs) as the depth of the domain goes to zero. We prove that the solutions of the PEs can be expanded as a sum of barotropic flow and baroclinic flow up to a uniformly bounded (in time and space) initial time layer. The barotropic flow is solution of the 2D Navier–Stokes equations with Coriolis force coupled with density. By employing a comparison theorem, the baroclinic flow can be approximated by a quasi-stationary nonlinear GFD-Stokes problem. This article presents a mathematically rigorous justification that the barotropic flow dominates the baroclinic flow in the motion of the atmosphere and ocean.     

Harnack's inequality for cooperative weakly coupled elliptic systems

Résumé

On étudie le comportement pour les grands temps des solutions de l'équation de Navier–Stokes dans la bande R ² × (0, 1). Après reformulation du problème à l'aide de variables auto-similaires, on calcule un développement asymptotique en temps de la vorticité jusqu'au second ordre, en supposant que la vorticité initiale est suffisamment petite et décro??t de manire polyno?miale à l'infini. Dans un deuxième temps, sans cette hypothèse de petitesse sur la donnée initiale, on prouve que, de nouveau, le comportement asymptotique des solutions globales est régi par l'équation de Navier–Stokes bidimensionnelle. En particulier, on montre que de telles solutions convergent vers le tourbillon d'Oseen.

Abstract

We study the long-time behavior of solutions of the Navier–Stokes equation in R ² × (0, 1). After introducing self-similar variables, we compute the long-time asymptotics of the vorticity up to second order, assuming that the initial vorticity is sufficiently small and has polynomial decay at infinity. Afterwards, we relax this smallness assumption and we prove again that the long-time behavior of global bounded solutions is governed by the two-dimensional Navier–Stokes equation. In particular, we show that solutions converge towards Oseen vortices.     

Parametric resonance of ground states in the nonlinear Schrödinger equation

We study the global existence and long-time behavior of solutions of the initial-value problem for the cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation with an attractive localized potential and a time-dependent nonlinearity coefficient. For small initial data, we show under some nondegeneracy assumptions that the solution approaches the profile of the ground state and decays in time like t^-1/4. The decay is due to resonant coupling between the ground state and the radiation field induced by the time-dependent nonlinearity coefficient.     

一类非线性发展方程的全局解的存在性(英文)

本文证明了一类非线性发展方程全局解的存在性,并证明适当假设下,当非线性项满足临界指数增长条件时,方程具有紧吸引子。     

On the behavior of attractors under finite difference approximation

We recall that the long-time behavior of the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation is the same as that of a certain finite system of ordinary differential equations. We show how a particular finite difference scheme approximating the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky may be viewed as a small C ¹ perturbation of this system for the grid spacing sufficiently small. As a consequence one may make deductions about how the global attractor and the flow on the attractor behaves under this approximation. For a sufficiently refined grid the long-time behavior of the solutions of the finite difference scheme is a function of the solutions at certain grid points, whose number and position remain fixed as the grid is refined. Though the results are worked out explicitly for the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation, the results extend to other infinite-dimensional dissipative systems.     

Determining nodes for semilinear parabolic equations

We are concerned with the determination of the asymptotic behavior of strong solutions to the initial-boundary value problem for general semilinear parabolic equations by the asymptotic behavior of these strong solutions on a finite set. More precisely, if the asymptotic behavior of the strong solution is known on a suitable finite set which is called determining nodes, then the asymptotic behavior of the strong solution itself is entirely determined. We prove the above property by the energy method.     

Inertial Manifolds and Gevrey Regularity for the Moore-Greitzer Model of an Axial-Flow Compressor

Summary. In this paper, we study the regularity and long-time behavior of the solutions to the Moore-Greitzer model of an axial-flow compressor. In particular, we prove that this dissipative system of evolution equations possesses a global invariant inertial manifold, and therefore its underlying long-time dynamics reduces to that of an ordinary differential system. Furthermore, we show that the solutions of this model belong to a Gevrey class of regularity (real analytic in the spatial variables). As a result, one can show the exponentially fast convergence of the Galerkin approximation method to the exact solution, an evidence of the reliability of the Galerkin method as a computational scheme in this case. The rigorous results presented here justify the readily available low-dimensional numerical experiments and control designs for stabilizing certain states and traveling wave solutions for this model.     

On degrees of freedom of certain conservative turbulence models for the Navier-Stokes equations

We study the degrees of freedom of several conservative computational turbulence models that are derived via a non-dissipative regularizations of the Navier-Stokes equations. For the Navier-Stokes-α, the Leray-α and the Navier-Stokes-ω equations we prove that the longtime behavior of their respective solutions is completely determined by a finite set of grid values and by a finite set of Fourier modes. For each turbulence model the number of determining nodes and of determining modes is estimated in terms of flow parameters, such as viscosity, smoothing length, forcing and domain size. These estimates are global as they do not depend on an individual solution.     

Estimating the number of asymptotic degrees of Freedom for Nonlinear Dissipative Systems

We show that the long-time behavior of the projection of the exact solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations and other dissipative evolution equations on the finite-dimensional space of interpolant polynomials determines the long-time behavior of the solution itself provided that the spatial mesh is fine enough. We also provide an explicit estimate on the size of the mesh. Moreover, we show that if the evolution equation has an inertial manifold, then the dynamics of the evolution equation is equivalent to the dynamics of the projection of the solutions on the finite-dimensional space spanned by the approximating polynomials. Our results suggest that certain numerical schemes may capture the essential dynamics of the underlying evolution equation.

     

A study of distributed-order time fractional diffusion models with continuous distribution weight functions

The distributed-order time fractional diffusion model with Dirichlet nonhomogeneous boundary conditions on a finite domain is considered. Four choices of continuous distribution weight functions with mean μ and standard deviation σ are investigated to study their impact on both the short-time and long-time solution behavior. An implicit numerical method implemented on a graded mesh is proposed to solve the model and the stability and convergence analysis are presented. Semi-analytic solutions are also derived for these distributions to assess the accuracy of the scheme. Numerical results highlight that the four continuous distribution weight functions produce a short-time solution behavior that is consistent with those solutions from the classical time fractional partial differential equation with fractional order γ* = μ. There are however long-time differences in the solution behavior that become more distinguishable as σ increases. In particular, we find a smaller value of σ produces more diffuse profiles and the diffusion rate slows as σ increases. Furthermore, the asymptotic behavior of the solution may be influenced by the time-fractional orders ranging between the smallest nonzero weight order and mean μ for the continuous uniform and raised cosine distribution weight functions, respectively. Similar findings are also observed for the truncated normal and beta distributions.     

On the long-time behavior of type-III Ricci flow solutions

We show that three-dimensional homogeneous Ricci flow solutions that admit finite-volume quotients have long-time limits given by expanding solitons. We show that the same is true for a large class of four-dimensional homogeneous solutions. We give an extension of Hamilton’s compactness theorem that does not assume a lower injectivity radius bound, in terms of Riemannian groupoids. Using this, we show that the long-time behavior of type-III Ricci flow solutions is governed by the dynamics of an -action on a compact space. This work was supported by NSF grant DMS-0306242     

The 3D Primitive Equations in the absence of viscosity: Boundary conditions and well-posedness in the linearized case

In this article we consider the 3D Primitive Equations (PEs) of the ocean, without viscosity and linearized around a stratified flow. As recalled in the Introduction, the PEs without viscosity ought to be supplemented with boundary conditions of a totally new type which must be nonlocal. In this article a set of boundary conditions is proposed for which we show that the linearized PEs are well-posed. The proposed boundary conditions are based on a suitable spectral decomposition of the unknown functions. Noteworthy is the rich structure of the Primitive Equations without viscosity. Our study is based on a modal decomposition in the vertical direction; in this decomposition, the first mode is essentially a (linearized) Euler flow, then a few modes correspond to a stationary problem partly elliptic and partly hyperbolic; finally all the other modes correspond to a stationary problem fully hyperbolic.     

The exponential behavior of the stochastic three-dimensional primitive equations with multiplicative noise

In this article, we study the stability of weak solutions to the stochastic three-dimensional (3D) primitive equations (PEs) with multiplicative noise. In particular, we prove that under some conditions on the forcing terms, the weak solutions converge exponentially in the mean square and almost surely exponentially to the stationary solutions. We also prove a result related to the stabilization of these equations.     

Dynamics for Controlled 2D Generalized MHD Systems with Distributed Controls

We study the dynamics of a piecewise (in time) distributed optimal control problem for Generalized MHD equations which model velocity tracking coupled to magnetic field over time. The long-time behavior of solutions for an optimal distributed control problem associated with the Generalized MHD equations is studied. First, a quasi-optimal solution for the Generalized MHD equations is constructed; this quasi-optimal solution possesses the decay (in time) properties. Then, some preliminary estimates for the long-time behavior of all solutions of Generalized MHD equations are derived. Next, the existence of a solution of optimal control problemis proved also optimality system is derived. Finally, the long-time decay properties for the optimal solutions is established.     

Large time behavior of solutions for a class of time-dependent Hamilton-Jacobi equations

We study the long-time behavior of viscosity solutions for time-dependent Hamilton-Jacobi equations by the dynamical approach based on weak KAM(Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser) theory due to Fathi. We establish a general convergence result for viscosity solutions and adherence of the graph as t →∞.     

Kolmogorov ε-entropy of attractor for a non-autonomous strongly damped wave equation

In this paper, we study the long-time behavior of solutions for a non-autonomous strongly damped wave equation. We first prove the existence of a uniform attractor for the equation with a translation compact driving force and then obtain an upper estimate for the Kolmogorov ε-entropy of the uniform attractor. Finally we obtain an upper bound of the fractal dimension of the uniform attractor with quasiperiodic force.     

Long time regularity of solutions of the Hele–Shaw problem

In this paper we study the long-time behavior of solutions of the one phase Hele–Shaw problem without surface tension. We show that after a finite time solutions of the Hele–Shaw problem become starshaped and Lipschitz continuous in space. Based on this observation we then prove that the free boundary become smooth in space and time with nondegenerate free boundary speed.     

Asymptotic behavior of a Lotka–Volterra food chain stochastic model in the Chemostat

This article studies the asymptotic behavior of a stochastic Chemostat model with Lotka–Volterra food chain in which the dilution rate was influenced by white noise. The long-time behavior of the model is studied. Using Lyapunov function and Itô's formula, we show that there is a unique positive solution to the system. Moreover, the sufficient conditions for some population dynamical properties including the boundedness in mean and the stochastically asymptotic stability of the washout equilibrium were obtained. Furthermore, we show how the solutions spiral around the predator-free equilibrium and the positive equilibrium of deterministic system. Besides, the existence of the stationary distribution is proved for the considered model. Numerical simulations are introduced finally to support the obtained results.     

Dynamics for controlled 2-D Boussinesq systems with distributed controls

The long-time behavior of solutions for an optimal distributed control problem associated with the Boussinesq equations is studied. First, a quasi-optimal solution for the Boussinesq equations is constructed; this quasi-optimal solution possesses the decay (in time) properties. Then, some preliminary estimates for the long-time behavior of all solutions of the Boussinesq equations are derived. Next, the existence of a solution for the optimal control problem is proved. Finally, the long-time decay properties for the optimal solutions is established.     

On quasilinear parabolic equations involving weighted p-Laplacian operators

In this paper we consider the initial boundary value problem for a class of quasilinear parabolic equations involving weighted p-Laplacian operators in an arbitrary domain, in which the conditions imposed on the non-linearity provide the global existence, but not uniqueness of solutions. The long-time behavior of the solutions to that problem is considered via the concept of global attractor for multi-valued semiflows. The obtained results recover and extend some known results related to the p-Laplacian equations.