Numerical evaluations for shock and discontinuity velocity related to similarity solutions of quasilinear hyperbolic systems

Three problems of physical interest, which are described by first-order quasilinear hyperbolic systems in conservative form, are considered. These systems are invariant with respect to the stretching group of transformations and, more important, they admit an associated group. So we are able to characterize both the profile of the shock and discontinuity velocity; the latter by making use of the concept of “discrete perturbation stability analysis”.     

Blow-up for hyperbolic systems in diagonal form

We prove a blow-up result for classical solutions of the Cauchy problem for a nonlinear hyperbolic system in one space dimension. The initial conditions are periodic and the system is supposed to be in diagonal form. We give an estimate of the lifespan of the classical solutions. Received May 2000     

Breakdown of Classical Solutions for Quasilinear Hyperbolic Systems of Diagonal Form

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Global existence and regularity of solutions to a system of nonlinear Maxwell equations

We consider the model that has been suggested by Greenberg et al. (Physica D 134 (1999) 362-383) for the ferroelectric behavior of materials. In this model, the usual (linear) Maxwell's equations are supplemented with a constitutive relation in which the electric displacement equals a constant times the electric field plus an internal polarization variable which evolves according to an internal set of nonlinear Maxwell's equations. For such model we provide rigorous proofs of global existence, uniqueness, and regularity of solutions. We also provide some preliminary results on the long-time behavior of solutions. The main difficulties in this study are due to the loss of compactness in the system of Maxwell's equations. These results generalize those of Greenberg et al., where only solutions with TM (transverse magnetic) symmetry were considered.     

Equality of pressures for diffeomorphisms preserving hyperbolic measures

For a diffeomorphism which preserves a hyperbolic measure the potential is studied. Various types of pressure of are introduced. It is shown that these pressures satisfy a corresponding variational principle. This research was supported by the grant EU FP6 ToK SPADE2. The author is grateful to IM PAN Warsaw for the hospitality and to C. Wolf for discussions about suitable concepts of pressure.     

Formation of singularities for certain hyperbolic systems in one space dimension

We study the development of singularities of classical solutions of quasilinear strictly hyperbolic systems in one space dimension. The systems are supposed to be in the diagonal form, but we do not impose restrictions on the size of the initial data and, in some cases, we can replace the genuine nonlinearity by weaker conditions.     

Piecewise parabolic method on local stencil for gasdynamic simulations

A numerical method based on piecewise parabolic difference approximations is proposed for solving hyperbolic systems of equations. The design of its numerical scheme is based on the conservation of Riemann invariants along the characteristic curves of a system of equations, which makes it possible to discard the four-point interpolation procedure used in the standard piecewise parabolic method (PPM) and to use the data from the previous time level in the reconstruction of the solution inside difference cells. As a result, discontinuous solutions can be accurately represented without adding excessive dissipation. A local stencil is also convenient for computations on adaptive meshes. The new method is compared with PPM by solving test problems for the linear advection equation and the inviscid Burgers equation. The efficiency of the methods is compared in terms of errors in various norms. A technique for solving the gas dynamics equations is described and tested for several one-and two-dimensional problems.     

Optimal Control for Traffic Flow Networks

We consider traffic flow models for road networks where the flow is controlled at the nodes of the network. For the analytical and numerical optimization of the control, the knowledge of the gradient of the objective functional is useful. The adjoint calculus introduced below determines the gradient in two ways. We derive the adjoint equations for the continuous traffic flow network model and derive also the adjoint equations for a discretized model. Numerical examples for the solution of problems of optimal control for traffic flow networks are presented.This author was supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Grant KL 1105/5.     

高维拟线性双曲型方程组的对角化问题

本文讨论了高维一阶拟线性方程组可对角化的条件，并给出其在二维等熵流方程组、三维空气动力学方程组及具有旋转对称性的守恒律组等情形的应用；然后给出了高维拟线性对角型方程组Ｃａｕｃｈｙ问题存在整体经典解的一个充要条件，并给出其应用。     

Hyperbolicity versus partial-hyperbolicity and the transversality-torsion phenomenon

In this paper, we describe a process to create hyperbolicity in the neighbourhood of a homoclinic orbit to a partially hyperbolic torus for three degrees of freedom Hamiltonian systems: the transversality-torsion phenomenon.     

A problem with normal derivatives in boundary conditions for a system of differential equations

We seek for a solution to a system of differential equations, using linear relations connecting normal derivatives of the desired functions at the domain boundary.     

Structural stability on basins for numerical methods

In this paper, we show that a flow with a hyperbolic compact attracting set is structurally stable on the basin of attraction with respect to numerical methods. The result is a generalized version of earlier results by Garay, Li, Pugh, and Shub. The proof relies heavily on the usual invariant manifold theory elaborated by Hirsch, Pugh, and Shub (1977), and by Robinson (1976).

     

Dimension of hyperbolic measures of random diffeomorphisms

We consider dynamics of compositions of stationary random diffeomorphisms. We will prove that the sample measures of an ergodic hyperbolic invariant measure of the system are exact dimensional. This is an extension to random diffeomorphisms of the main result of Barreira, Pesin and Schmeling (1999), which proves the Eckmann-Ruelle dimension conjecture for a deterministic diffeomorphism.