Solution to the initial boundary-value problem for the regularized Buckley-Leverett system

We solve the initial boundary-value problem for the regularized Buckley-Leverett system, which describes the flow of two immiscible incompressible fluids through a porous medium. This is the case of the flow of water and oil in an oil reservoir. The system is formed by a hyperbolic equation and an elliptic equation coupled by a vector field which represents the total velocity of the mixture. The regularization is done by means of a filter acting on the velocity field. We consider the critical situation in which we inject pure water into the reservoir. At this critical value for the water saturation, the spatial components of the characteristics of the hyperbolic equation vanish and this motivates the use of a new technique to prove the achievement of the boundary condition for the hyperbolic equation. We treat the case of a horizontal plane reservoir. We also prove that the time averages of the saturation component of the solution converge to one, as the time interval increases indefinitely, for almost all points of the reservoir, with a rate of convergence which depends only on the flux function.     

Initial boundary value problem for a nonconservative system in elastodynamics

This article is concerned with the initial boundary value problem for a nonconservative system of hyperbolic equation appearing in elastodynamics in the space time domain x > 0, t > 0. The number of boundary conditions, to be prescribed at the boundary x = 0, depends on the number of characteristics entering the domain. Because our system is nonlinear, the characteristic speeds depends on the unknown and the direction of the characteristics curves are known apriori. As it is well known, the boundary condition has to be understood in a generalised way. One of the standard way is using vanishing viscosity method. We use this method to construct solution for a particular class of initial and boundary data, namely the initial and boundary datas that lie on the level sets of one of the Riemann invariants.     

聚驱后油田剩余油潜力分布规律研究

综合考虑剩余油饱和度、厚度、渗透率、孔隙度、相带、原始含油饱和度、注水井距离等7个因素,利用模糊综合评价方法,以大庆油田北一二排西块为例,计算了该区块8个沉积聚驱后剩余油潜力,并分析聚驱后剩余油潜力分布特征.结果表明,聚驱后仍有比较大的剩余油潜力;聚驱后剩余油潜力主要集中在高渗透、厚度较大、剩余油饱和度较高、河道砂等高级别沉积相带的区域;聚驱后在潜力值为0～0.2区间内的剩余油储量很小,潜力值为0.4～0.6区间内的剩余油储量最大,而潜力值为0.6～0.8区间内剩余油储量次之.     

Surfaces of positive curvature inE 3 whose characteristic curves form a Tchebychef net

In this paper, it is proved that the surfaces of positive curvature with no umbilical points in 3-dimensional Euclidean space whose characteristic curves form a Tchebychef net are translation surfaces and that the characteristic curves are represented on the unit sphere by a rhombic net. The determination of these surfaces depends on two elliptic integrals of the first kind. Furthermore, the case where these elliptic integrals reduce to elementary integrals is studied and it is shown that the surfaces corresponding to this case belong to one of the following two classes: (a) Translation surfaces of positive curvature with plane characteristic curves as generators lying in two planes intersecting each other under a constant angle. The special case where these planes are perpendicular gives an analogue of the Scherk's minimal surfaces of translation. (b) Translation surfaces of revolution of positive curvature with characteristic curves as generators which are circular helices.     

Subsonic solutions for compressible transonic potential flows

We establish an existence theorem for transonic isentropic potential flows where the subsonic region is bounded by the sonic line and thus the governing equation may become degenerate on the boundary partly or entirely. It has been conjectured by experiments and numerical studies that the self-similar multidimensional flow changes its type, namely, hyperbolic far from the origin (supersonic region) and elliptic near the origin (subsonic region). Furthermore, the potential equation has a different nonlinearity compared to other transonic problems such as the unsteady transonic small disturbance equation, the nonlinear wave equation, and the pressure gradient equation. Namely, the coefficients of the potential equation depend on the gradients while others are independent of the gradients. We provide techniques to handle the gradients, establish interior and boundary gradient estimates for the potential flow in a convex region, and answer the conjecture, that is, the flow is strictly elliptic and the region is subsonic.     

Estimates for eigenvalues of quasilinear elliptic systems

In this paper we introduce the generalized eigenvalues of a quasilinear elliptic system of resonant type. We prove the existence of infinitely many continuous eigencurves, which are obtained by variational methods. For the one-dimensional problem, we obtain an hyperbolic type function defining a region which contains all the generalized eigenvalues (variational or not), and the proof is based on a suitable generalization of Lyapunov's inequality for systems of ordinary differential equations. We also obtain a family of curves bounding by above the kth variational eigencurve.     

An estimation for the hyperbolic region of elliptic Lagrangian solutions in the planar three-body problem

It is well known that the linear stability of elliptic Lagrangian solutions depends on the mass parameter β = 27(m ₁ m ₂ + m ₂ m ₃ + m ₃ m ₁)/(m ₁ + m ₂ + m ₃)² ∈ [0, 9] and the eccentricity e ∈ [0, 1). Based on new techniques for evaluating the hyperbolicity and the recently developed trace formula for Hamiltonian systems [9], we identify regions for (β, e) such that elliptic Lagrangian solutions are hyperbolic. Consequently, we have proven that the elliptic relative equilibrium of square central configurations is hyperbolic with any eccentricity.     

Global structure of Riemann solutions to a system of two-dimensional hyperbolic conservation laws

The Riemann problem for a two-dimensional nonstrictly hyperbolic system of conservation laws is considered. Without the restriction that each jump of the initial data projects one planar elementary wave, ten topologically distinct solutions are obtained by applying the method of generalized characteristic analysis. Some of these solutions involve the nonclassical waves, i.e., the delta shock wave and the delta contact discontinuity, for which we explicitly give the expressions of their strengths, locations and propagation speeds. Moreover, we demonstrate that the nature of our solutions is identical with that of solutions to the corresponding one-dimensional Cauchy problem, which provides a verification that our construction produces the correct unique global solutions.     

A priori estimate for non-uniform elliptic equations

A priori estimate for non-uniform elliptic equations with periodic boundary conditions is concerned. The domain considered consists of two sub-regions, a connected high permeability region and a disconnected matrix block region with low permeability. Let ? denote the size ratio of one matrix block to the whole domain. It is shown that in the connected high permeability sub-region, the Hölder and the Lipschitz estimates of the non-uniform elliptic solutions are bounded uniformly in ?. But Hölder gradient estimate and Lp estimate of the second order derivatives of the solutions in general are not bounded uniformly in ?.     

Existence and uniqueness analysis of a detached shock problem for the potential flow

We study a problem for two-dimensional steady potential and isentropic Euler equations in a bounded domain, where an artificial detached shock interacts with a wedge. Using the stream function, we obtain a free boundary problem for the subsonic state and the detached artificial shock curve and we prove that such configuration admits a unique solution in certain weighted Hölder spaces. The proof is based on various Hölder and Schauder estimates for second-order elliptic equations and fixed point theorems. Moreover, we pose an energy principle and remark that the physical attached shock is the minimizer of the energy functional.     

A class of quasilinear degenerate elliptic problems

We establish the existence of solutions for a class of quasilinear degenerate elliptic equations. The equations in this class satisfy a structure condition which provides ellipticity in the interior of the domain, and degeneracy only on the boundary. Equations of transonic gas dynamics, for example, satisfy this property in the region of subsonic flow and are degenerate across the sonic surface. We prove that the solution is smooth in the interior of the domain but may exhibit singular behavior at the degenerate boundary. The maximal rate of blow-up at the degenerate boundary is bounded by the “degree of degeneracy” in the principal coefficients of the quasilinear elliptic operator. Our methods and results apply to the problems recently studied by several authors which include the unsteady transonic small disturbance equation, the pressure-gradient equations of the compressible Euler equations, and the singular quasilinear anisotropic elliptic problems, and extend to the class of equations which satisfy the structure condition, such as the shallow water equation, compressible isentropic two-dimensional Euler equations, and general two-dimensional nonlinear wave equations. Our study provides a general framework to analyze degenerate elliptic problems arising in the self-similar reduction of a broad class of two-dimensional Cauchy problems.     

Elliptic solutions of nonlinear integrable equations and related topics

The theory of elliptic solitons for the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KP) equation and the dynamics of the corresponding Calogero-Moser system is integrated. It is found that all the elliptic solutions for the KP equation manifest themselves in terms of Riemann theta functions which are associated with algebraic curves admitting a realization in the form of a covering of the initial elliptic curve with some special properties. These curves are given in the paper by explicit formulae. We further give applications of the elliptic Baker-Akhiezer function to generalized elliptic genera of manifolds and to algebraic 2-valued formal groups.Dedicated to the memory of J.-L. Verdier     

Semi-hyperbolic patches of solutions to the two-dimensional nonlinear wave system for Chaplygin gases

Semi-hyperbolic patches are the regions in which one family out of two nonlinear families of characteristics starts on sonic curves and ends on transonic shock waves. This type of region appears frequently in the two-dimensional Riemann problem for the Euler equations and its simplified models and a few other situations. We construct a semi-hyperbolic patch of solution to the two-dimensional nonlinear wave system with Chaplygin gas equation of state by approaching the problem as a Goursat-type boundary value problem which has a sonic curve as the degenerate boundary.     

On the strong pre-compactness property for entropy solutions of a degenerate elliptic equation with discontinuous flux

Under some non-degeneracy condition we show that sequences of entropy solutions of a semi-linear elliptic equation are strongly pre-compact in the general case of a Carathéodory flux vector. The proofs are based on localization principles for H-measures corresponding to sequences of measure-valued functions.     

Nonlinear analysis on the vibration of elastic plates

We consider the vibration of elastic thin plates under certain reasonable assumptions. We derive the nonlinear equations for this model by the Hamilton Principle. Under the conditions on the hyperbolicity for the initial data, we establish the local time well-posedness for the initial and boundary value problem by Picard iteration scheme, and obtain the estimates for the solutions.     

The role of sonic shocks between two- and three-phase states in porous media

Flowof threefluids in porousmedia is governed by a systemof two conservation laws. Shock solutions are described by curves in state space, which is the saturation triangle of the fluids. We study a certain bifurcation locus of these curves, which is relevant for certain injection problems. Such structure arises, for instance, when water and gas are injected in a mature reservoir either to dislodge oil or to sequestrate CO₂. The proof takes advantage of a certain wave curve to ensure that the waves in the flow are a rarefaction preceded by a shock, which is in turn preceded by a constant two-phase state (i.e., it lies at the boundary of the saturation triangle). For convex permeability models of Corey type, the analysis reveals further details, such as the number of possible two-phase states that correspond to the above mentioned shock, whatever the left state of the latter is within the saturation triangle.     

Pseudoconvex fully nonlinear partial differential operators: strong comparison theorems

We introduce a new class of curvature PDOs describing relevant properties of real hypersurfaces of . In our setting, the pseudoconvexity and the Levi form play the same role as the convexity and the real Hessian matrix play in the real Euclidean one. Our curvature operators are second-order fully nonlinear PDOs not elliptic at any point. However, when computed on generalized s-pseudoconvex functions, we shall show that their characteristic form is nonnegative definite with kernel of dimension one. Moreover, we shall show that the missing ellipticity direction can be recovered by taking into account the CR structure of the hypersurfaces. These properties allow us to prove a strong comparison principle, leading to symmetry theorems for domains with constant curvatures and to identification results for domains with comparable curvatures.     

一种便于摄动分析的编队飞行卫星相对运动的描述

定义了一组参数来描述卫星编队飞行的相对运动,称为相对轨道要素．利用它可以方便地分析摄动对相对轨道构形的影响以及卫星编队队形的几何特点．首先,对相对轨道要素给予了详细的推导,指出当主星偏心率为小量时,在主星轨道坐标系中相对轨道是一椭圆柱和一平面相交所得的交线,用描述该椭圆柱和平面的参数即可确定相对轨道构形,进而提出了相对轨道要素．其次,利用相对轨道要素对相对轨道进行地球扁率摄动分析,指出相对轨道构形的变化由两部分组成:一是椭圆柱的漂移导致相对轨道中心的漂移,二是平面法线的章动和进动引起相对轨道平面转动,同时还给出了地球扁率摄动下相对轨道构形漂移率及转动率的解析公式．最后,针对J2摄动分析了卫星编队相对轨道构形的变化以及相对轨道构形的漂移量和转动量．     

Existence of solutions for a class of singular quasilinear elliptic resonance problems

The paper concerns a resonance problem for a class of singular quasilinear elliptic equations in weighted Sobolev spaces. The equation set studied is one of the most useful sets of Navier-Stokes equations; these describe the motion of viscous fluid substances such as liquids, gases and so on. By using Galerkin-type techniques, the Brouwer fixed point theorem, and a new weighted compact Sobolev-type embedding theorem established by Shapiro, we show the existence of a nontrivial solution.     

Global Hyperbolicity for Spacetimes with Continuous Metrics

We show that the definition of global hyperbolicity in terms of the compactness of the causal diamonds and non-total imprisonment can be extended to spacetimes with continuous metrics, while retaining all of the equivalences to other notions of global hyperbolicity. In fact, global hyperbolicity is equivalent to the compactness of the space of causal curves and to the existence of a Cauchy hypersurface. Furthermore, global hyperbolicity implies causal simplicity, stable causality and the existence of maximal curves connecting any two causally related points.