Weak Dual Pairs and Jetlet Methods for Ideal Incompressible Fluid Models in $$n \ge 2$$ Dimensions

We review the role of dual pairs in mechanics and use them to derive particle-like solutions to regularized incompressible fluid systems. In our case we have a dual pair resulting from the action of diffeomorphisms on point particles (essentially by moving the points). We then augment our dual pair by considering the action of diffeomorphisms on Taylor series, also known as jets. The augmented weak dual pairs induce a hierarchy of particle-like solutions and conservation laws with particles carrying a copy of a jet group. We call these augmented particles jetlets. The jet groups serve as finite-dimensional models of the diffeomorphism group itself, and so the jetlet particles serve as a finite-dimensional model of the self-similarity exhibited by ideal incompressible fluids. The conservation law associated to jetlet solutions is shown to be a shadow of Kelvin’s circulation theorem. Finally, we study the dynamics of infinite time particle mergers. We prove that two merging particles at the zeroth level in the hierarchy yield dynamics which asymptotically approach that of a single particle in the first level in the hierarchy. This merging behavior is then verified numerically as well as the exchange of angular momentum which must occur during a near collision of two particles. The resulting particle-like solutions suggest a new class of meshless methods which work in dimensions \(n \ge 2\) and which exhibit a shadow of Kelvin’s circulation theorem. More broadly, this provides one of the first finite-dimensional models of self-similarity in ideal fluids.     

Shear flows of a new class of power-law fluids

We consider the flow of a class of incompressible fluids which are constitutively defined by the symmetric part of the velocity gradient being a function, which can be non-monotone, of the deviator of the stress tensor. These models are generalizations of the stress power-law models introduced and studied by J. Málek, V. Pr??a, K.R. Rajagopal: Generalizations of the Navier-Stokes fluid from a new perspective. Int. J. Eng. Sci. 48 (2010), 1907–1924. We discuss a potential application of the new models and then consider some simple boundary-value problems, namely steady planar Couette and Poiseuille flows with no-slip and slip boundary conditions. We show that these problems can have more than one solution and that the multiplicity of the solutions depends on the values of the model parameters as well as the choice of boundary conditions.     

A Note on the Lie Symmetry Analysis and Exact Solutions for the Extended mKdV Equation

We discuss the recent paper by Liu and Li (Lie symmetry analysis and exact solutions for the extended mKdV equation, Acta Appl. Math. (2010), 109:1107?C1119) and illustrate that so called the ??extended mKdV equation?? by authors can be reduced to the usual form of the modified Korteweg?Cde Vries equation. We also correct some other statements by authors with respect to exact solutions of solutions for the ??extended mKdV equation??.     

Monotonicity methods in generalized Orlicz spaces for a class of non‐Newtonian fluids

The paper concerns existence of weak solutions to the equations describing a motion of some non‐Newtonian fluids with non‐standard growth conditions of the Cauchy stress tensor. Motivated by the fluids of strongly inhomogeneous behavior and having the property of rapid shear thickening, we observe that the L^p framework is not suitable to capture the described situation. We describe the growth conditions with the help of general x‐dependent convex function. This formulation yields the existence of solutions in generalized Orlicz spaces. As examples of motivation for considering non‐Newtonian fluids in such spaces, we recall the electrorheological fluids, magnetorheological fluids, and shear thickening fluids. The existence of solutions is established by the generalization of the classical Minty method to non‐reflexive spaces. The result holds under the assumption that the lowest growth of the Cauchy stress is greater than the critical exponent q=(3d+ 2)/(d+ 2), where d is for space dimension. The restriction on the exponent q is forced by the convective term. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Constant sign and nodal solutions for logistic-type equations with equidiffusive reaction

We consider a logistic-type equation driven by the p-Laplace differential operator with an equidiffusive reaction term. Combining variational methods based on critical point theory together with truncation techniques and Morse theory, we show that when ?? > ??₁, the problem has extremal solutions of constant sign and when ?? > ??₂ it has also a nodal (sign-changing) solution. Here ??₁?<???₂ are the first two eigenvalues of the negative Dirichlet p-Laplacian. In the semilinear case (i.e. p?=?2) we produce two nodal solutions.     

Schr?dinger and Dirac particles in quasi-one-dimensional systems with a Coulomb interaction

We consider specific features and principal distinctions in the behavior of the energy spectra of Schr?dinger and Dirac particles in the regularized ??Coulomb?? potential V_??(z) = ?q/(|z|+??) as functions of the cutoff parameter ?? in 1+1 dimensions. We show that the discrete spectrum becomes a quasiperiodic function of ?? for ?? ? 1 in such a one-dimensional ??hydrogen atom?? in the relativistic case. This effect is nonanalytically dependent on the coupling constant and has no nonrelativistic analogue in this case. This property of the Dirac spectral problem explicitly demonstrates the presence of a physically informative energy spectrum for an arbitrarily small ?? > 0, but also the absence of a regular limit transition ?? ?? 0 for all nonzero q. We also show that the three-dimensional Coulomb problem has a similar property of quasiperiodicity with respect to the cutoff parameter for q = Z?? > 1, i.e., in the case where the domain of the Dirac Hamiltonian with the nonregularized potential must be especially refined by specifying boundary conditions as r ?? 0 or by using other methods.     

Steady flow of non-Newtonian fluids — monotonicity methods in generalized Orlicz spaces

Our purpose is to show the existence of weak solutions to steady flow of non-Newtonian incompressible fluids with nonstandard growth conditions of the Cauchy stress tensor. We are motivated by the fluids of strongly inhomogeneous behavior and characterized by rapid shear thickening. Since L^p framework is not sufficient to capture the described model, we describe the growth conditions with the help of a general x-dependent convex function and formulate our problem in generalized Orlicz spaces.     

An application of the maximum principle to describe the layer behavior of large solutions and related problems

This work is devoted to the analysis of the asymptotic behavior of positive solutions to some problems of variable exponent reaction-diffusion equations, when the boundary condition goes to infinity (large solutions). Specifically, we deal with the equations ??u = u ^p(x), ??u = ?m(x)u?+?a(x)u ^p(x) where a(x)??? a ₀ >?0, p(x)??? 1 in ??, and ??u = e ^p(x) where p(x)??? 0 in ??. In the first two cases p is allowed to take the value 1 in a whole subdomain ${\Omega_c\subset \Omega}$ , while in the last case p can vanish in a whole subdomain ${\Omega_c\subset \Omega}$ . Special emphasis is put in the layer behavior of solutions on the interphase ?? _i :?= ??? _c ???. A similar study of the development of singularities in the solutions of several logistic equations is also performed. For example, we consider ???u = ?? m(x)u?a(x) u ^p(x) in ??, u = 0 on ???, being a(x) and p(x) as in the first problem. Positive solutions are shown to exist only when the parameter ?? lies in certain intervals: bifurcation from zero and from infinity arises when ?? approaches the boundary of those intervals. Such bifurcations together with the associated limit profiles are analyzed in detail. For the study of the layer behavior of solutions the introduction of a suitable variant of the well-known maximum principle is crucial.     

On the global existence and small dispersion limit for a class of complex Ginzburg–Landau equations

In this paper we consider a class of complex Ginzburg–Landau equations. We obtain sufficient conditions for the existence and uniqueness of global solutions for the initial‐value problem in d‐dimensional torus ??^d, and that solutions are initially approximated by solutions of the corresponding small dispersion limit equation for a period of time that goes to infinity as dispersive coefficient goes to zero. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Asymptotic Analysis of Steady and Nonsteady Navier-Stokes Equations for Barotropic Compressible Flow

We study the asymptotic behavior of solutions to steady and nonsteady Navier-Stokes equations for barotropic compressible fluids with slip boundary conditions in small channels whose diameters converge to zero. We also derive the corresponding asymptotic one-dimensional equations and we analyze the sets, where L ¹-weak convergence of the pressure terms fails.     

On the cauchy problem for a one‐dimensional full compressible non‐Newtonian fluids

This paper is concerned with global existence and asymptotic behavior of H¹ solutions to the Cauchy problem of one‐dimensional full non‐Newtonian fluids with the weighted small initial data. We then obtain the global existence of Hⁱ(i = 2,4) solutions and their asymptotic behavior for the system. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

On the asymptotic boundedness of the energy of solutions of the wave equation u tt ? a(t)Δu?=?0

Applying a class of quadratic forms introduced by Manfrin (Port. Math. 65(4):447?C484, 2008), we study the asymptotic behavior, as t ?? +??, of the energy of the solutions to the Cauchy problem for wave equations with time dependent propagation speed.     

Regularization for a class of ill-posed evolution problems in Banach space

We study evolution equations in Banach space, and provide a general framework for regularizing a wide class of ill-posed Cauchy problems by proving continuous dependence on modeling for nonautonomous equations. We approximate the ill-posed problem by a well-posed one, and obtain H?lder-continuous dependence results that provide estimates of the error for a class of solutions under certain stabilizing conditions. For examples that include the linearized Korteweg-de Vries equation and the Schr?dinger equation in L ^p ,p??2, we obtain a family of regularizing operators for the ill-posed problem. This work extends to the nonautonomous case several recent results for ill-posed problems with constant coefficients.     

On the development and generalizations of Cahn–Hilliard equations within a thermodynamic framework

We provide a thermodynamic basis for the development of models that are usually referred to as ??phase-field models?? for compressible, incompressible, and quasi-incompressible fluids. Using the theory of mixtures as a starting point, we develop a framework within which we can derive ??phase-field models?? both for mixtures of two constituents and for mixtures of arbitrarily many fluids. In order to obtain the constitutive equations, we appeal to the requirement that among all admissible constitutive relations that which is appropriate maximizes the rate of entropy production (see Rajagopal and Srinivasa in Proc R Soc Lond A 460:631?C651, 2004). The procedure has the advantage that the theory is based on prescribing the constitutive equations for only two scalars: the entropy and the entropy production. Unlike the assumption made in the case of the Navier?CStokes?CFourier fluids, we suppose that the entropy is not only a function of the internal energy and the density but also of gradients of the partial densities or the concentration gradients. The form for the rate of entropy production is the same as that for the Navier?CStokes?CFourier fluid. As observed earlier in Heida and Málek (Int J Eng Sci 48(11):1313?C1324, 2010), it turns out that the dependence of the rate of entropy production on the thermodynamical fluxes is crucial. The resulting equations are of the Cahn?CHilliard?CNavier?CStokes type and can be expressed both in terms of density gradients or concentration gradients. As particular cases, we will obtain the Cahn?CHilliard?CNavier?CStokes system as well as the Korteweg equation. Compared to earlier approaches, our methodology has the advantage that it directly takes into account the rate of entropy production and can take into consideration any constitutive assumption for the internal energy (or entropy).     

Sparse effective membership problems via residue currents

We use residue currents on toric varieties to obtain bounds on the degrees of solutions to polynomial ideal membership problems. Our bounds depend on (the volume of) the Newton polytope of the polynomial system and are therefore well adjusted to sparse polynomial systems. We present sparse versions of Max N?ther??s AF?+?BG Theorem, Macaulay??s Theorem, and Kollár??s Effective Nullstellensatz, as well as recent results by Hickel and Andersson?CG?tmark.     

Ground state and multiple solutions for a critical exponent problem

We study the following Brezis?CNirenberg type critical exponent equation which is related to the Yamabe problem: $$-\Delta u=\lambda u+ |u|^{2^{\ast}-2}u, \quad u\in H_0^1 (\Omega),$$ where ?? is a smooth bounded domain in ${{\mathbb R}^N(N\ge3)}$ and 2^* is the critical Sobolev exponent. We show that, if N ?? 5, this problem has at least ${\lceil\frac{N+1}{2}\rceil}$ pairs of nontrivial solutions for each fixed ?? ?? ??₁, where ??₁ is the first eigenvalue of ??? with the Dirichlet boundary condition. For N ?? 3, we give energy estimates from below for ground state solutions.     

Semigroups of inverse quotients

We examine, in a general setting, a notion of inverse semigroup of left quotients, which we call left I-quotients. This concept has appeared, and has been used, as far back as Clifford??s seminal work describing bisimple inverse monoids in terms of their right unit subsemigroups. As a consequence of our approach, we find a straightforward way of extending Clifford??s work to bisimple inverse semigroups (a step that has previously proved to be awkward). We also put some earlier work of Gantos into a wider and clearer context, and pave the way for further progress.     

Homoclinic Bifurcations for Partial Differential Equations in Unbounded Domains

The connection between low-dimensional chaos in ordinary differential equations, and turbulence in fluids and other systems governed by partial differential equations, is one that is in many circumstances not clear. We discuss some examples of turbulent fluid flow, and consider ways in which they may be related to much simpler sets of ordinary differential equations, whose behavior can be reasonably well understood. (We are not advocating drastic Fourier truncation.) The generation of aperiodic solutions through the occurrence of homoclinic orbits is briefly analysed for ordinary differential equations, and the same kind of heuristic analysis is sketched for partial differential equations (in one space dimension). It is suggested that such an analysis can explain certain features of chaos, which have been observed in real fluids.     

On coercivity and regularity for linear elliptic systems

We introduce a nonlinear method to study a ??universal?? strong coercivity problem for monotone linear elliptic systems by compositions of finitely many constant coefficient tensors satisfying the Legendre?CHadamard strong ellipticity condition. We give conditions and counterexamples for universal coercivity. In the case of non-coercive systems we give examples to show that the corresponding variational integral may have infinitely many nowhere C ¹ minimizers on their supports. For some universally coercive systems we also present examples with affine boundary values which have nowhere C ¹ solutions.