On deformation of Riemannian metrics quadratic in the Ricci tensor

We prove a theorem on the short-time existence of a flow quadratic in the Ricci tensor for Riemannian metrics on compact manifolds under certain conditions. Also, we construct formulas of the deformation of the Ricci curvature tensor for this flow.     

Killing tensor fields on the 2-torus

A symmetric tensor field on a Riemannian manifold is called a Killing field if the symmetric part of its covariant derivative equals zero. There is a one-to-one correspondence between Killing tensor fields and first integrals of the geodesic flow which depend polynomially on the velocity. Therefore Killing tensor fields relate closely to the problem of integrability of geodesic flows. In particular, the following question is still open: does there exist a Riemannian metric on the 2-torus which admits an irreducible Killing tensor field of rank ≥ 3? We obtain two necessary conditions on a Riemannian metric on the 2-torus for the existence of Killing tensor fields. The first condition is valid for Killing tensor fields of arbitrary rank and relates to closed geodesics. The second condition is obtained for rank 3 Killing tensor fields and pertains to isolines of the Gaussian curvature.     

Existence of solutions to the biaxial nematic liquid crystals with two order parameter tensors

The recent paper considers some mathematical problems on a tensor model with two order parameters to the biaxial nematic liquid crystals. The energy in this model contains a cubic term and is unbounded from below. We study the gradient flow generated by this energy in two dimensions. We focus on establishing global existence of classical and weak solutions.     

Existence of global solutions to multidimensional equations for Bingham fluids

We consider equations describing the multidimensional motion of compressible viscous (non-Newtonian) Bingham-type fluids, i.e., fluids with multivalued function relating the stresses to the tensor of strain rates. We prove the global existence theorem in time and in the initial data for the first initial boundary-value problem corresponding to flows in a bounded domain in the class of “weak” generalized solutions. In this case, we admit an anisotropic relation between the stress and strain rate tensors and study admissible relations of this kind in detail.     

On the global and periodic regular flows of viscoelastic fluids with a differential constitutive law

This paper is concerned with the existence and uniqueness of global, periodic and stationary solutions for flows of incompressible viscoelastic fluids for which the extra-stress tensor satisfies a differential constitutive law. More precisely, we prove that the results obtained by C Guillopé and J.C. Saut [5] remain true without any restriction on the smallness of the retardation parameter.     

Chaos in the dynamics generated by sequences of maps, with applications to chaotic advection in flows with aperiodic time dependence

In this paper we develop analytical techniques for proving the existence of chaotic dynamics in systems where the dynamics is generated by infinite sequences of maps. These are generalizations of the Conley-Moser conditions that are used to show that a (single) map has an invariant Cantor set on which it is topologically conjugate to a subshift on the space of symbol sequences. The motivation for developing these methods is to apply them to the study of chaotic advection in fluid flows arising from velocity fields with aperiodic time dependence, and we show how dynamics generated by infinite sequences of maps arises naturally in that setting. Our methods do not require the existence of a homoclinic orbit in order to conclude the existence of chaotic dynamics. This is important for the class of fluid mechanical examples considered since one cannot readily identify a homoclinic orbit from the structure of the equations.¶We study three specific fluid mechanical examples: the Aref blinking vortex flow, Samelson's tidal advection model, and Min's rollup-merge map that models kinematics in the mixing layer. Each of these flows is modelled as a type of "blinking flow", which mathematically has the form of a linked twist map, or an infinite sequence of linked twist maps. We show that the nature of these blinking flows is such that it is possible to have a variety of "patches" of chaos in the flow corresponding to different length and time scales.     

Global Existence of Large Data Weak Solutions for a Simplified Compressible Oldroyd-B Model Without Stress Diffusion

We start with the compressible Oldroyd-B model derived in [2] (J. W. Barrett, Y. Lu, and E. Süli, Existence of large-data finite-energy global weak solutions to a compressible Oldroyd-B model, Commun. Math. Sci., 15 (2017), 1265-1323), where the existence of global-in-time finite-energy weak solutions was shown in two dimensional setting with stress diffusion. In the paper, we investigate the case without stress diffusion. We first restrict ourselves to the corotational setting as in [28] (P. L. Lions, and N. Masmoudi, Global solutions for some Oldroyd models of non-Newtonian flows, Chin. Ann. Math., Ser. B, 21(2) (2000), 131-146). We further assume the extra stress tensor is a scalar matrix and we derive a simplified model which takes a similar form as the multi-component compressible Navier-Stokes equations, where, however, the pressure term related to the scalar extra stress tensor has the opposite sign. By employing the techniques developed in [30,35], we can still prove the global-in-time existence of finite energy weak solutions in two or three dimensions, without the presence of stress diffusion.     

Global regularity estimates for multidimensional equations of compressible non-Newtonian fluids

The present paper is devoted to the problem of global existence of sufficiently regular solutions to two- and three-dimensional equations of a compressible non-Newtonian fluid. In the case of the potential stress tensor, we develop a technique for deriving energy identities that do not contain derivatives of density. On the basis of these identities, in the case of sufficiently rapidly increasing potentials, we obtain an extended system ofa priori estimates for the equations mentioned above. We also study the related problem of estimating solutions to the nonlinear elliptic system generated by the stress tensor. Translated fromMatematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 68, No. 3, pp. 360–376, September, 2000.     

A cohomological index of Fuller type for parameterized set-valued maps in normed spaces

We construct a cohomological index of the Fuller type for set-valued flows in normed linear spaces satisfying the properties of existence, excision, additivity, homotopy and topological invariance. In particular, the constructed index detects periodic orbits and stationary points of set-valued dynamical systems, i.e., those generated by differential inclusions. The basic methods to calculate the index are also presented.     

On Minimal Subspaces in Tensor Representations

In this paper we introduce and develop the notion of minimal subspaces in the framework of algebraic and topological tensor product spaces. This mathematical structure arises in a natural way in the study of tensor representations. We use minimal subspaces to prove the existence of a best approximation, for any element in a Banach tensor space, by means of a tensor given in a typical representation format (Tucker, hierarchical, or tensor train). We show that this result holds in a tensor Banach space with a norm stronger than the injective norm and in an intersection of finitely many Banach tensor spaces satisfying some additional conditions. Examples using topological tensor products of standard Sobolev spaces are given.     

The Maxey–Riley equation: Existence,uniqueness and regularity of solutions

The Maxey–Riley equation describes the motion of an inertial (i.e., finite-size) spherical particle in an ambient fluid flow. The equation is a second-order, implicit integro-differential equation with a singular kernel, and with a forcing term that blows up at the initial time. Despite the widespread use of the equation in applications, the basic properties of its solutions have remained unexplored. Here we fill this gap by proving local existence and uniqueness of mild solutions. For certain initial velocities between the particle and the fluid, the results extend to strong solutions. We also prove continuous differentiability of the mild and strong solutions with respect to their initial conditions. This justifies the search for coherent structures in inertial flows using the Cauchy–Green strain tensor.     

On limiting for higher order discontinuous Galerkin method for 2D Euler equations

We present an implementation of discontinuous Galerkin method for 2-D Euler equations on Cartesian meshes using tensor product Lagrange polynomials based on Gauss nodes. The scheme is stabilized by a version of the slope limiter which is adapted for tensor product basis functions together with a positivity preserving limiter. We also incorporate and test shock indicators to determine which cells need limiting. Several numerical results are presented to demonstrate that the proposed approach is capable of computing complex discontinuous flows in a stable and accurate fashion.     

New geometric flows on Riemannian manifolds and applications to Schrödinger-Airy flows

In this paper,a class of new geometric flows on a complete Riemannian manifold is defined. The new flow is related to the generalized(third order) Landau-Lifshitz equation. On the other hand it could be thought of as a special case of the Schr¨odinger-Airy flow when the target manifold is a K¨ahler manifold with constant holomorphic sectional curvature. We show the local existence of the new flow on a complete Riemannian manifold with some assumptions on Ricci tensor. Moreover,if the target manifolds are Einstein or some certain type of locally symmetric spaces,the global results are obtained.     

Short-time existence of solutions to the cross curvature flow on 3-manifolds

Given a compact 3-manifold with an initial Riemannian metric of positive (or negative) sectional curvature, we prove the short-time existence of a solution to the cross curvature flow. This is achieved using an idea first introduced by DeTurck (1983) in his work establishing the short-time existence of solutions to the Ricci flow.

     

Conformal Ricci flow on asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds

In this article, we study the short-time existence of conformal Ricci flow on asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds. We also prove a local Shi's type curvature derivative estimate for conformal Ricci flow.     

Dispersion of mass by two-dimensional homogeneous and incompressible Çinlar flows

We consider the dispersion of passive tracers in stationary, homogeneous and incompressible Çinlar flows on the plane. The associated velocity field is generated by the superposition of eddies of various size, arrival time and location which form a Poisson point process. Our focus is on the dispersion of a tracer cloud, which is measured through the variance of its centroid and the mean of the dispersion tensor. We also study single particle dispersion and particle pair separations in conjunction with dispersion. Monte Carlo simulations of all these measures first establish the relation of the dispersion to the parameters of the flow model. Second, the physical predictions on the behavior of these measures with respect to time as well as their relationship to each other are confirmed.     

Tensor absolute value equations

This paper is concerned with solving some structured multi-linear systems, which are called tensor absolute value equations. This kind of absolute value equations is closely related to tensor complementarity problems and is a generalization of the well-known absolute value equations in the matrix case. We prove that tensor absolute value equations are equivalent to some special structured tensor complementary problems. Some sufficient conditions are given to guarantee the existence of solutions for tensor absolute value equations. We also propose a Levenberg-Marquardt-type algorithm for solving some given tensor absolute value equations and preliminary numerical results are reported to indicate the efficiency of the proposed algorithm.     

Pullback exponential attractors for the non-autonomous micropolar fluid flows

This paper investigates the pullback asymptotic behaviors for the non-autonomous micropolar fluid flows in 2D bounded domains. We use the energy method, combining with some important properties of the generated processes, to prove the existence of pullback exponential attractors and global pullback attractors and show that they both with finite fractal dimension. Further, we give the relationship between global pullback attractors and pullback exponential attractors.     

On the HSL-flow

We introduce a natural geometric fourth order flow associated to Hamiltonian stationary submanifolds in Kähler–Einstein manifolds. Afterwards we study some of its properties and show short-time existence. In case of Hamiltonian stationary submanifolds with bounded second fundamental form evolving in flat space we obtain an existence time estimate (Theorem 3.7).     

Variational inequalities in magneto-hydrodynamics

We study subdifferential initial boundary-value problems for the magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD) equations of a viscous incompressible liquid. We construct a solvability theory for an abstract evolution inequality in Hilbert space for operators with quadratic nonlinearity. The results obtained are applied to the study of MHD flows. For three-dimensional flows, we prove the existence of weak solutions of variational inequalities “globally” with respect to time, while, for two-dimensional flows, we establish the existence and uniqueness of strong solutions.