Bingham Flows in Periodic Domains of Infinite Length

The Bingham fluid model has been successfully used in modeling a large class of non-Newtonian fluids. In this paper, the authors extend to the case of Bingham fluids the results previously obtained by Chipot and Mardare, who studied the asymptotics of the Stokes flow in a cylindrical domain that becomes unbounded in one direction, and prove the convergence of the solution to the Bingham problem in a finite periodic domain, to the solution of the Bingham problem in the infinite periodic domain, as the length of the finite domain goes to infinity. As a consequence of this convergence, the existence of a solution to a Bingham problem in the infinite periodic domain is obtained, and the uniqueness of the velocity field for this problem is also shown. Finally, they show that the error in approximating the velocity field in the infinite domain with the velocity in a periodic domain of length 2? has a polynomial decay in ?, unlike in the Stokes case(see [Chipot,M. and Mardare, S., Asymptotic behaviour of the Stokes problem in cylinders becoming unbounded in one direction, Journal de Math′ematiques Pures et Appliqu′ees, 90(2), 2008,133–159]) where it has an exponential decay. This is in itself an important result for the numerical simulations of non-Newtonian flows in long tubes.     

Asymptotic Behavior of a Structure Made by a Plate and a Straight Rod

This paper is devoted to describing the asymptotic behavior of a structure made by a thin plate and a thin perpendicular rod in the framework of nonlinear elasticity. The authors scale the applied forces in such a way that the level of the total elastic energy leads to the Von-K′arm′an’s equations (or the linear model for smaller forces) in the plate and to a one-dimensional rod-model at the limit. The junction conditions include in particular the continuity of the bending in the plate and the stretching in the rod at the junction.     

Regular Submanifolds in Conformal Space ${\mathbb Q}^n_p$

The authors study the regular submanifolds in the conformal space Q_p~n and introduce the submanifold theory in the conformal space Q_p~n.The first variation formula of the Willmore volume functional of pseudo-Riemannian submanifolds in the conformal spaceQ_p~n is given.Finally,the conformal isotropic submanifolds in the conformal space Q_p~n are classified.     

THE UNIQUENESS OF A TRANSONIC SHOCK IN A NOZZLE FOR THE 2-D COMPLETE EULER SYSTEM WITH THE VARIABLE END PRESSURE

In this paper, by use of the methods in [1-3], we establish the uniqueness of a 2-D transonic shock solution in a nozzle when the end pressure in the diverging part of the nozzle lies in an appropriate scope. Especially, we remove the crucial but unnatural assumption in recent references which the transonic shock must be assumed to go through a fixed point in advance.     

Asymptotic analysis of quantum dynamics in crystals: the Bloch-Wigner transform, Bloch dynamics and Berry phase

We study the semi-classical limit of the Schro¨dinger equation in a crystal in the presence of an external potential and magnetic field. We first introduce the Bloch-Wigner transform and derive the asymptotic equations governing this transform in the semi-classical setting. For the second part, we focus on the appearance of the Berry curvature terms in the asymptotic equations. These terms play a crucial role in many important physical phenomena such as the quantum Hall effect. We give a simple derivation of these terms in different settings using asymptotic analysis.     

Multiple limit cycles in an immune system

The nonlinear oscillatory phenomenon has been observed in the system of immune response, which corresponds to the limit cycles in the mathematical models. We prove that the system simulating an immune response studied by Huang has at least three limit cycles in the system. The conditions for the multiple limit cycles are useful in analyzing the nonlinear oscillation in immune response.