Vanishing Viscosity Solutions of the Compressible Euler Equations with Spherical Symmetry and Large Initial Data

We are concerned with spherically symmetric solutions of the Euler equations for multidimensional compressible fluids, which are motivated by many important physical situations. Various evidences indicate that spherically symmetric solutions of the compressible Euler equations may blow up near the origin at a certain time under some circumstance. The central feature is the strengthening of waves as they move radially inward. A longstanding open, fundamental problem is whether concentration could be formed at the origin. In this paper, we develop a method of vanishing viscosity and related estimate techniques for viscosity approximate solutions, and establish the convergence of the approximate solutions to a global finite-energy entropy solution of the isentropic Euler equations with spherical symmetry and large initial data. This indicates that concentration is not formed in the vanishing viscosity limit, even though the density may blow up at a certain time. To achieve this, we first construct global smooth solutions of appropriate initial-boundary value problems for the Euler equations with designed viscosity terms, approximate pressure function, and boundary conditions, and then we establish the strong convergence of the viscosity approximate solutions to a finite-energy entropy solution of the Euler equations.     

Two Dimensional Water Waves in Holomorphic Coordinates

In this article we investigate spectral properties of the coupling \({H + V_\lambda}\), where \({H = -i\alpha \cdot \nabla+m\beta}\) is the free Dirac operator in \({\mathbb{R}^3}\), \({m > 0}\) and \({V_\lambda}\) is an electrostatic shell potential (which depends on a parameter \({\lambda \in \mathbb{R}}\)) located on the boundary of a smooth domain in \({\mathbb{R}^3}\). Our main result is an isoperimetric-type inequality for the admissible range of \({\lambda}\)’s for which the coupling \({H + V_\lambda}\) generates pure point spectrum in \({(-m, m)}\). That the ball is the unique optimizer of this inequality is also shown. Regarding some ingredients of the proof, we make use of the Birman–Schwinger principle adapted to our setting in order to prove some monotonicity property of the admissible \({\lambda}\)’s, and we use this to relate the endpoints of the admissible range of \({\lambda}\)’s to the sharp constant of a quadratic form inequality, from which the isoperimetric-type inequality is derived.     

A Priori Estimates for the Free-Boundary 3D Compressible Euler Equations in Physical Vacuum

We prove a priori estimates for the three-dimensional compressible Euler equations with moving physical vacuum boundary, with an equation of state given by p(ρ) = C _γ ρ ^γ for γ > 1. The vacuum condition necessitates the vanishing of the pressure, and hence density, on the dynamic boundary, which creates a degenerate and characteristic hyperbolic free-boundary system to which standard methods of symmetrizable hyperbolic equations cannot be applied.     

The Two Dimensional Euler Equation: A Statistical Study

We construct surface type measures on the level sets for the renormalized energy, which is an invariant quantity for the two dimensional periodic Euler flow, and prove the existence of weak solutions living on such level sets. Other classes of invariant measures for the motion are also introduced. Received: 3 December 1997 / Accepted: 20 August 1998     

Interaction of Four Rarefaction Waves in the Bi-Symmetric Class of the Two-Dimensional Euler Equations

The global existence and structures of solutions to multi-dimensional unsteady compressible Euler equations are interesting and important open problems. In this paper, we construct global classical solutions to the interaction of four orthogonal planar rarefaction waves with two axes of symmetry for the Euler equations in two space dimensions, in the case where the initial rarefaction waves are large. The bi-symmetric initial data is a basic type of four-wave two-dimensional Riemann problems. The solutions in this case are continuous, bounded and self-similar, and we characterize how large the rarefaction waves must be. We use the methods of hodograph transformation, characteristic decomposition, and phase space analysis. We resolve binary interactions of simple waves in the process.     

Stability of a Composite Wave of Two Viscous Shock Waves for the Full Compressible Navier-Stokes Equation

In this paper we investigate the asymptotic stability of a composite wave consisting of two viscous shock waves for the full compressible Navier-Stokes equation. By introducing a new linear diffusion wave special to this case, we successfully prove that if the strengths of the viscous shock waves are suitably small with same order and also the initial perturbations which are not necessarily of zero integral are suitably small, the unique global solution in time to the full compressible Navier-Stokes equation exists and asymptotically tends toward the corresponding composite wave whose shifts (in space) of two viscous shock waves are uniquely determined by the initial perturbations. We then apply the idea to study a half space problem for the full compressible Navier-Stokes equation and obtain a similar result. Research is supported in part by NSFC Grant No. 10471138, NSFC-NSAF Grant No. 10676037 and 973 project of China, Grant No. 2006CB805902, in part by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the Invitation Fellowship for Research in Japan (Short-Term). Research is supported in part by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) 19340037, Japan.     

多级轴流透平气动特性计算方法研究

在多级轴流透平子午面中线上建立1.5维欧拉方程组,其中叶片作用力、流体的黏性作用、冷气的作用以源项的形式考虑到方程中,控制方程采用一步时间推进TVD-LW格式进行离散和求解.计算结果表明,该方法能够预测多级轴流透平的平均气动参数分布和气动性能,具有快速、灵活的特点,可以用于求解透平的特性曲线或进行气动优化.     

电磁波在周期介质中的传播及二维光子晶体的光子带结构

光子晶体是光学与凝聚态物理交叉的新领域,也是近年来应用物理学的一个重要研究领域,它是一种由介电常数高的(低的)介质在另一种介电常数低的(高的)背景介质中周期排列所组成的人造多维周期结构材料,能够产生光子带隙。频率落在带隙内的光在晶体里沿任何方向都不能传播,因而具有能够抑制原子、分子的自发辐射等诱人的光电子学特性,在基础研究和实际应用上都有着巨大的潜力。本文在这一领域里进行了富有成效的研究,获得了很好的结果。主要有:(1)利用平面波展开方法来计算二维光子晶体的带隙结构。首先,我们设计正方晶胞的二维光子晶体模型。设x₃方向为介质柱的轴方向,二维周期结构在x₁-x₂平面上。晶胞的晶格常数为a,半径为r,介质柱和空气柱的介电常数分别为ε_a=17和ε_b=1,a>2r。设计的核心思想是通过降低光子晶体结构的对称性,消除光子能带在晶体的布里渊区高对称点上的本征简并。(2)对于二维光子晶体的电磁波理论及周期介质中的Bloch波解做了详细的推导,给出了光子晶体中禁带存在的理论依据。同时以正方格子晶格的二维光子晶体为例,验证了电介质在空气圆孔中的排列存在E偏振和H偏振的光子带隙重叠区,称为绝对光子带隙。对于二维的光子晶体,两种本征偏振模式的光子能带结构可以独立地调节,以实现两者的光子带隙的最优重叠, 从而大大提高了二维光子晶体的完全带隙宽度。     

Remarks on the Blow-up of the Euler Equations and the Related Equations

We consider the Euler system for inviscid incompressible fluid flows, and its perturbations in ⁿ, n2. We prove global well-posedness of this perturbed Euler system in the Triebel-Lizorkin spaces for initial vorticity which is small in the critical Besov norms. Comparison type theorems about the blow-up of solutions are proved between the Euler system and its perturbations. We also study the possiblity of the self-similar type of blow-up of solutions to the equations.     

On the Dynamics of Navier-Stokes and Euler Equations

This is a detailed study on certain dynamics of Navier-Stokes and Euler equations via a combination of analysis and numerics. We focus upon two main aspects: (a) zero viscosity limit of the spectra of linear Navier-Stokes operator, (b) heteroclinics conjecture for Euler equation, its numerical verification, Melnikov integral, and simulation and control of chaos. Due to the difficulty of the problem for the full Navier-Stokes and Euler equations, we also propose and study two simpler models of them.     

Global Solutions to the Ultra-Relativistic Euler Equations

We show that when entropy variations are included and special relativity is imposed, the thermodynamics of a perfect fluid leads to two distinct families of equations of state whose relativistic compressible Euler equations are of Nishida type. (In the non-relativistic case there is only one.) The first corresponds exactly to the Stefan-Boltzmann radiation law, and the other, emerges most naturally in the ultra-relativistic limit of a γ-law gas, the limit in which the temperature is very high or the rest mass very small. We clarify how these two relativistic equations of state emerge physically, and provide a unified analysis of entropy variations to prove global existence in one space dimension for the two distinct 3 × 3 relativistic Nishida-type systems. In particular, as far as we know, this provides the first large data global existence result for a relativistic perfect fluid constrained by the Stefan-Boltzmann radiation law.     

Derivation of the Euler Equations from Quantum Dynamics

We derive the Euler equations from quantum dynamics for a class of fermionic many-body systems. We make two types of assumptions. The first type are physical assumptions on the solution of the Euler equations for the given initial data. The second type are a number of reasonable conjectures on the statistical mechanics and dynamics of the Fermion Hamiltonian.©2003 B. Nachtergaele and H.-T. Yau. This article may be reproduced in its entirety for non-commercial purposes.Research partially supported by NSF # DMS-0070774.Research partially supported by NSF # DMS-0072098, the Veblen Fund from the Institute for Advanced Study and a Fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation.     

Asymptotic Analysis for a Vlasov-Fokker-Planck/ Compressible Navier-Stokes System of Equations

This article is devoted to the asymptotic analysis of a system of coupled kinetic and fluid equations, namely the Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation and a compressible Navier-Stokes equation. Such a system is used, for example, to model fluid-particle interactions arising in sprays, aerosols or sedimentation problems. The asymptotic regime corresponding to a strong drag force and a strong Brownian motion is studied and the convergence toward a two phase macroscopic model is proved. The proof relies on a relative entropy method. A. Mellet was partially supported by NSF grant DMS-0456647.     

Exact Travelling-Wave Solutions of the Extended Fifth-Order Korteweg-de Vries Equation via Simple Equations Method (SEsM): The Case of Two Simple Equations

We apply the Simple Equations Method (SEsM) for obtaining exact travelling-wave solutions of the extended fifth-order Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation. We present the solution of this equation as a composite function of two functions of two independent variables. The two composing functions are constructed as finite series of the solutions of two simple equations. For our convenience, we express these solutions by special functions V, which are solutions of appropriate ordinary differential equations, containing polynomial non-linearity. Various specific cases of the use of the special functions V are presented depending on the highest degrees of the polynomials of the used simple equations. We choose the simple equations used for this study to be ordinary differential equations of first order. Based on this choice, we obtain various travelling-wave solutions of the studied equation based on the solutions of appropriate ordinary differential equations, such as the Bernoulli equation, the Abel equation of first kind, the Riccati equation, the extended tanh-function equation and the linear equation.     

The Relation Between Two Types of Characteristic Equations for Quantum Matrices

A definition (modification) of the power of quantum matrices using the -matrix has recently been proven useful to obtain generalizations of many well known theorems from linear algebra to the quantum case, among which are the Cayley–Hamilton theorem and the Newton identities. A separate effort has provided another generalization of the Cayley–Hamilton theorem for GL _q (n), which uses usual matrix powers but diagonal matrices as coefficients.We show that the latter generalization can be derived in the aforementioned more general framework and it is the expression of the modified quantum power in terms of the usual ones that accounts for the appearance of diagonal matrices.     

On the Conserved Quantities for the Weak Solutions of the Euler Equations and the Quasi-geostrophic Equations

In this paper we obtain sufficient conditions on the regularity of the weak solutions to guarantee conservation of the energy and the helicity for the incompressible Euler equations. The regularity of the weak solutions are measured in terms of the Triebel-Lizorkin type of norms, and the Besov norms, . In particular, in the Besov space case, our results refine the previous ones due to Constantin-E-Titi (energy) and the author of this paper (helicity), where the regularity is measured by a special class of the Besov space norm , which is the Nikolskii space. We also obtain a sufficient regularity condition for the conservation of the L ^p -norm of the temperature function in the weak solutions of the quasi-geostrophic equation.     

Concentrations of Solutions to Time-Discretizied Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations

The compactness properties of solutions to time-discretization of compressible Navier-Stokes equations are investigated in three dimensions. The existence of generalized solutions is established.     

On Blowup of Classical Solutions to the Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations

In this paper, we study the finite time blow up of smooth solutions to the Compressible Navier-Stokes system when the initial data contain vacuums. We prove that any classical solutions of viscous compressible fluids without heat conduction will blow up in finite time, as long as the initial data has an isolated mass group (see Definition 2.2). The results hold regardless of either the size of the initial data or the far fields being vacuum or not. This improves the blowup results of Xin (Comm Pure Appl Math 51:229–240, 1998) by removing the crucial assumptions that the initial density has compact support and the smooth solution has finite total energy. Furthermore, the analysis here also yields that any classical solutions of viscous compressible fluids without heat conduction in bounded domains or periodic domains will blow up in finite time, if the initial data have an isolated mass group satisfying some suitable conditions.