Convergence Rates in <Emphasis Type="Italic">L</Emphasis><Superscript>2</Superscript> for Elliptic Homogenization Problems

We study rates of convergence of solutions in L ² and H ^1/2 for a family of elliptic systems {L_e}{\{\mathcal{L}_\varepsilon\}} with rapidly oscillating coefficients in Lipschitz domains with Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions. As a consequence, we obtain convergence rates for Dirichlet, Neumann, and Steklov eigenvalues of {L_e}{\{\mathcal{L}_\varepsilon\}} . Most of our results, which rely on the recently established uniform estimates for the L ² Dirichlet and Neumann problems in Kenig and Shen (Math Ann 350:867–917, 2011; Commun Pure Appl Math 64:1–44, 2011) are new even for smooth domains.     

Stationary Flows of Shear Thickening Fluids in 2D

We investigate the steady flow of a shear thickening generalized Newtonian fluid under homogeneous boundary conditions on a domain in \mathbbR²{\mathbb{R}^{2}}. We assume that the stress tensor is generated by a potential of the form H = h (|e(u)|){H = h (|\varepsilon (u)|)}, e(u){\varepsilon (u)} denoting the symmetric part of the velocity gradient. We prove the existence of strong solutions for a large class of functions h having the property that h′ (t)/t increases (shear thickening case).     

Integral Representation Results for Energies Defined on Stochastic Lattices and Application to Nonlinear Elasticity

This article is devoted to the study of the asymptotic behavior of a class of energies defined on stochastic lattices. Under polynomial growth assumptions, we prove that the energy functionals F_e{F_\varepsilon} stored in the deformation of an e{{\varepsilon}}-scaling of a stochastic lattice Γ-converge to a continuous energy functional when e{{\varepsilon}} goes to zero. In particular, the limiting energy functional is of integral type, and deterministic if the lattice is ergodic. We also generalize, to systems and nonlinear settings, well-known results on stochastic homogenization of discrete elliptic equations. As an application of the main result, we prove the convergence of a discrete model for rubber towards the nonlinear theory of continuum mechanics. We finally address some mechanical properties of the limiting models, such as frame-invariance, isotropy and natural states.     

Energy Transport in Stochastically Perturbed Lattice Dynamics

We consider lattice dynamics with a small stochastic perturbation of order ${\varepsilon}We consider lattice dynamics with a small stochastic perturbation of order e{\varepsilon} and prove that for a space–time scale of order e^-1{\varepsilon^{-1}} the local spectral density (Wigner function) evolves according to a linear transport equation describing inelastic collisions. For an energy and momentum conserving chain, the transport equation predicts a slow decay, as 1/?t{1/\sqrt t} , for the energy current correlation in equilibrium. This is in agreement with previous studies using a different method.     

Asymmetrical Three-Dimensional Travelling Gravity Waves

We consider periodic travelling gravity waves at the surface of an infinitely deep perfect fluid. The pattern is non-symmetric with respect to the propagation direction of the waves and we consider a general non-resonant situation. Defining a couple of amplitudes e₁,e₂{\varepsilon_{1},\varepsilon_{2}} along the basis of wave vectors which satisfy the dispersion relation, we first give the formal asymptotic expansion of bifurcating solutions in powers of e₁,e₂.{\varepsilon_{1},\varepsilon_{2}.} Then, introducing an additional equation for the unknown diffeomorphism of the torus associated with an irrational rotation number, which allows us to transform the differential at the successive points of the Newton iteration method into a differential equation with two constant main coefficients, we are able to use a descent method leading to an invertible differential. Then, by using an adapted Nash–Moser theorem, we prove the existence of solutions with the above asymptotic expansion for values of the couple (e₁²,e₂²){(\varepsilon_{1}^{2},\varepsilon_{2}^{2})} in a subset of the first quadrant of the plane with asymptotic full measure at the origin.     

The Erpenbeck High Frequency Instability Theorem for Zeldovitch–von Neumann–D?ring Detonations

The rigorous study of spectral stability for strong detonations was begun by Erpenbeck (Phys. Fluids 5:604–614 1962). Working with the Zeldovitch–von Neumann–D?ring (ZND) model (more precisely, Erpenbeck worked with an extension of ZND to general chemistry and thermodynamics), which assumes a finite reaction rate but ignores effects such as viscosity corresponding to second order derivatives, he used a normal mode analysis to define a stability function V(t,e){V(\tau,\epsilon)} whose zeros in ${\mathfrak{R}\tau > 0}${\mathfrak{R}\tau > 0} correspond to multidimensional perturbations of a steady detonation profile that grow exponentially in time. Later in a remarkable paper (Erpenbeck in Phys. Fluids 9:1293–1306, 1966; Stability of detonations for disturbances of small transverse wavelength, 1965) he provided strong evidence, by a combination of formal and rigorous arguments, that for certain classes of steady ZND profiles, unstable zeros of V exist for perturbations of sufficiently large transverse wavenumber e{\epsilon} , even when the von Neumann shock, regarded as a gas dynamical shock, is uniformly stable in the sense defined (nearly 20 years later) by Majda. In spite of a great deal of later numerical work devoted to computing the zeros of V(t,e){V(\tau,\epsilon)} , the paper (Erpenbeck in Phys. Fluids 9:1293–1306, 1966) remains one of the few works we know of [another is Erpenbeck (Phys. Fluids 7:684–696, 1964), which considers perturbations for which the ratio of longitudinal over transverse components approaches ∞] that presents a detailed and convincing theoretical argument for detecting them. The analysis in Erpenbeck (Phys. Fluids 9:1293–1306, 1966) points the way toward, but does not constitute, a mathematical proof that such unstable zeros exist. In this paper we identify the mathematical issues left unresolved in Erpenbeck (Phys. Fluids 9:1293–1306, 1966) and provide proofs, together with certain simplifications and extensions, of the main conclusions about stability and instability of detonations contained in that paper. The main mathematical problem, and our principal focus here, is to determine the precise asymptotic behavior as e?￥{\epsilon\to\infty} of solutions to a linear system of ODEs in x, depending on e{\epsilon} and a complex frequency τ as parameters, with turning points x _* on the half-line [0,∞).     

Scale-Transformations in the Homogenization of Nonlinear Magnetic Processes

A class of nonlinear first-order processes is formulated as a minimization principle. In the presence of oscillating data, a two-scale model is then derived, via Nguetseng’s notion of two-scale convergence. The dependence on the fine-scale variable is eliminated by averaging with respect to the fine-scale (scale-integration or upscaling); conversely, any two-scale solution is retrieved from a coarse-scale one (scale-disintegration or downscaling). These results are first developed in a general functional framework, and are then applied to the homogenization of a relaxation dynamics in magnetic composites: $ \mathcal{A}(x/\varepsilon) {\partial B_\varepsilon\over \partial t} + \alpha(B_\varepsilon, x/\varepsilon) \ni H_\varepsilon $ $ \nabla \cdot B_\varepsilon=0, \quad \nabla \times H_\varepsilon =J(x) \quad \forall\;\varepsilon > 0. $ Here J is a prescribed current density. ${\mathcal{A}(y)}A class of nonlinear first-order processes is formulated as a minimization principle. In the presence of oscillating data, a two-scale model is then derived, via Nguetseng’s notion of two-scale convergence. The dependence on the fine-scale variable is eliminated by averaging with respect to the fine-scale (scale-integration or upscaling); conversely, any two-scale solution is retrieved from a coarse-scale one (scale-disintegration or downscaling). These results are first developed in a general functional framework, and are then applied to the homogenization of a relaxation dynamics in magnetic composites:

A(x/e) [(?Be)/(?t)] + a(Be, x/e) ' He \mathcal{A}(x/\varepsilon) {\partial B_\varepsilon\over \partial t} + \alpha(B_\varepsilon, x/\varepsilon) \ni H_\varepsilon      8. Lower Bound for the Energy of Bloch Walls in Micromagnetics      Radu Ignat  Benoît Merlet 《Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis》2011,199(2):369-406 We study a two-dimensional nonconvex and nonlocal energy in micromagnetics defined over S 2-valued vector fields. This energy depends on two small parameters, β and e{\varepsilon} , penalizing the divergence of the vector field and its vertical component, respectively. Our objective is to analyze the asymptotic regime b << e << 1{\beta \ll \varepsilon \ll 1} through the method of Γ-convergence. Finite energy configurations tend to become divergence-free and in-plane in the magnetic sample except in some small regions of typical width e{\varepsilon} (called Bloch walls) where the magnetization connects two directions on S 2. We are interested in quantifying the limit energy of the transition layers in terms of the jump size between these directions. For one-dimensional transition layers, we show by Γ-convergence analysis that the exact line density of the energy is quadratic in the jump size. We expect the same behaviour for the two-dimensional model. In order to prove that, we investigate the concept of entropies. In the prototype case of a periodic strip, we establish a quadratic lower bound for the energy with a non-optimal constant. Then we introduce and study a special class of Lipschitz entropies and obtain lower bounds coinciding with the one-dimensional Γ-limit in some particular cases. Finally, we show that entropies are not appropriate in general for proving the expected sharp lower bound.      9. On the Existence and Conditional Energetic Stability of Solitary Gravity-Capillary Surface Waves on Deep Water      M. D. Groves  E. Wahl��n 《Journal of Mathematical Fluid Mechanics》2011,13(4):593-627 This paper presents an existence and stability theory for gravity-capillary solitary waves on the surface of a body of water of infinite depth. Exploiting a classical variational principle, we prove the existence of a minimiser of the wave energy E{{\mathcal E}} subject to the constraint I=?2m{{\mathcal I}=\sqrt{2}\mu}, where I{{\mathcal I}} is the wave momentum and 0 < m << 1{0 < \mu \ll 1} . Since E{{\mathcal E}} and I{{\mathcal I}} are both conserved quantities a standard argument asserts the stability of the set D μ of minimisers: solutions starting near D μ remain close to D μ in a suitably defined energy space over their interval of existence. In the applied mathematics literature solitary water waves of the present kind are modelled as solutions of the nonlinear Schr?dinger equation with cubic focussing nonlinearity. We show that the waves detected by our variational method converge (after an appropriate rescaling) to solutions of this model equation as mˉ 0{\mu \downarrow 0} .      10. On the Dynamics of Solitons in the Nonlinear Schr?dinger Equation      Vieri Benci  Marco Ghimenti  Anna Maria Micheletti 《Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis》2012,205(2):467-492 We study the behavior of the soliton solutions of the equation i\frac?y?t = - \frac12m Dy+ \frac12We￠(y) + V(x)y,i\frac{\partial\psi}{{\partial}t} = - \frac{1}{2m} \Delta\psi + \frac{1}{2}W_{\varepsilon}^{\prime}(\psi) + V(x){\psi},      11. Fully Developed Forced Convection in a Parallel Plate Channel with a Centered Porous Layer      Ozgur Cekmer  Moghtada Mobedi  Baris Ozerdem  Ioan Pop 《Transport in Porous Media》2012,93(1):179-201 In this study, fully developed heat and fluid flow in a parallel plate channel partially filled with porous layer is analyzed both analytically and numerically. The porous layer is located at the center of the channel and uniform heat flux is applied at the walls. The heat and fluid flow equations for clear fluid and porous regions are separately solved. Continues shear stress and heat flux conditions at the interface are used to determine the interface velocity and temperature. The velocity and temperature profiles in the channel for different values of Darcy number, thermal conductivity ratio, and porous layer thickness are plotted and discussed. The values of Nusselt number and friction factor of a fully clear fluid channel (Nu cl = 4.12 and fRe cl = 24) are used to define heat transfer increment ratio (eth = Nup/Nucl)({\varepsilon _{\rm th} =Nu_{\rm p}/Nu_{\rm cl})} and pressure drop increment ratio (ep = fRep/fRecl )({\varepsilon_{\rm p} =fRe_{\rm p}/fRe_{\rm cl} )} and observe the effects of an inserted porous layer on the increase of heat transfer and pressure drop. The heat transfer and pressure drop increment ratios are used to define an overall performance (e = eth/ep)({\varepsilon = \varepsilon_{\rm th}/\varepsilon_{\rm p})} to evaluate overall benefits of an inserted porous layer in a parallel plate channel. The obtained results showed that for a partially porous filled channel, the value of e{\varepsilon} is highly influenced from Darcy number, but it is not affected from thermal conductivity ratio (k r) when k r > 2. For a fully porous material filled channel, the value of e{\varepsilon} is considerably affected from thermal conductivity ratio as the porous medium is in contact with the channel walls.      12. Asymptotic Analysis of Shell-like Inclusions with High Rigidity      Anne-Laure Bessoud  Françoise Krasucki  Michele Serpilli 《Journal of Elasticity》2011,103(2):153-172 We study the problem of an elastic shell-like inclusion with high rigidity in a three-dimensional domain by means of the asymptotic expansion method. The analysis is carried out in a general framework of curvilinear coordinates. After defining a small real adimensional parameter ε, we characterize the limit problems when the rigidity of the inclusion has order of magnitude \frac1e\frac{1}{\varepsilon } and \frac1e3\frac{1}{\varepsilon^{3}} with respect to the rigidities of the surrounding bodies. Moreover, we prove the strong convergence of the solution of the initial three-dimensional problem towards the solution of the simplified limit problem.      13. A systematic derivation of a consistent set of “Boussinesq equations”      P. Kiš  H. Herwig 《Heat and Mass Transfer》2010,46(10):1111-1119 The often used “Boussinesq equations” for the determination of the coupled flow and temperature field in natural convection are systematically deduced by an asymptotic approach. With the nondimensional temperature difference that drives the flow, ?, as a perturbation parameter the leading order equations are identified as the appropriate equations, named “asymptotic Boussinesq equations”. These equations appear as the distinguished limit $\varepsilon\rightarrow0The often used “Boussinesq equations” for the determination of the coupled flow and temperature field in natural convection are systematically deduced by an asymptotic approach. With the nondimensional temperature difference that drives the flow, ɛ, as a perturbation parameter the leading order equations are identified as the appropriate equations, named “asymptotic Boussinesq equations”. These equations appear as the distinguished limit e?0\varepsilon\rightarrow0 and Ec? 0{Ec}\rightarrow 0 with Ec/e = const.{Ec}/\varepsilon =const. The equations are compared to “Boussinesq equations” of other studies and used to calculate Nusselt numbers in laminar and turbulent flows in infinite vertical channels as an example and for the justification of the asymptotic approach.      14. Global Nonexistence Theorems for a Class of Evolution Equations with Dissipation   总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4   Enzo Vitillaro 《Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis》1999,149(2):155-182 We study abstract evolution equations with nonlinear damping terms and source terms, including as a particular case a nonlinear wave equation of the type $ \ba{cl} u_{tt}-\Delta u+ b|u_t|^{m-2}u_t=c|u|^{p-2}u, &;(t,x)\in [0,T)\times\Omega,\\[6pt] u(t,x)=0, &;(t,x)\in [0,T)\times\partial \Omega,\\[6pt] u(0,\cdot)=u_0\in H_0^1(\Omega), \quad u_t(0,\cdot)=v_0\in L^2(\Omega),\es&; \ea $ \ba{cl} u_{tt}-\Delta u+ b|u_t|^{m-2}u_t=c|u|^{p-2}u, &;(t,x)\in [0,T)\times\Omega,\\[6pt] u(t,x)=0, &;(t,x)\in [0,T)\times\partial \Omega,\\[6pt] u(0,\cdot)=u_0\in H_0^1(\Omega), \quad u_t(0,\cdot)=v_0\in L^2(\Omega),\es&; \ea where 0 < T ￡ ￥0\Omega is a bounded regular open subset of \mathbbRn\mathbb{R}^n, n 3 1n\ge 1, b,c > 0b,c>0, p > 2p>2, m > 1m>1. We prove a global nonexistence theorem for positive initial value of the energy when 1 < m < p,    2 < p ￡ \frac2nn-2. 1-Laplacian operator, q > 1q>1.      15. Metastable Periodic Patterns in Singularly Perturbed Delayed Equations      C. Grotta-Ragazzo  Coraci Pereira Malta  K. Pakdaman 《Journal of Dynamics and Differential Equations》2010,22(2):203-252 We consider the scalar delayed differential equation e[(x)\dot](t)=-x(t) +f(x(t-1)){\epsilon\dot x(t)=-x(t)\,+f(x(t-1))}, where ${\epsilon\,{>}\,0}${\epsilon\,{>}\,0} and f verifies either df/dx > 0 or df/dx < 0 and some other conditions. We present theorems indicating that a generic initial condition with sign changes generates a solution with a transient time of order exp(c/e){{\rm exp}(c{/}\epsilon)}, for some c > 0. We call it a metastable solution. During this transient a finite time span of the solution looks like that of a periodic function. It is remarkable that if df/dx > 0 then f must be odd or present some other very special symmetry in order to support metastable solutions, while this condition is absent in the case df/dx < 0. Explicit e{\epsilon}-asymptotics for the motion of zeroes of a solution and for the transient time regime are presented.      16. The Instationary Navier–Stokes Equations in Weighted Bessel-Potential Spaces      Katrin Schumacher 《Journal of Mathematical Fluid Mechanics》2009,11(4):552-571 We investigate the solvability of the instationary Navier–Stokes equations with fully inhomogeneous data in a bounded domain W ì \mathbbRn \Omega \subset {{\mathbb{R}}^{n}} . The class of solutions is contained in Lr(0, T; Hb, qw (W))L^{r}(0, T; H^{\beta, q}_{w} (\Omega)), where Hb, qw (W){H^{\beta, q}_{w}} (\Omega) is a Bessel-Potential space with a Muckenhoupt weight w. In this context we derive solvability for small data, where this smallness can be realized by the restriction to a short time interval. Depending on the order of this Bessel-Potential space we are dealing with strong solutions, weak solutions, or with very weak solutions.      17. The Regularity of Weak Solutions of the 3D Navier–Stokes Equations in {B^{-1}_{\infty,\infty}}      A. Cheskidov  R. Shvydkoy 《Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis》2010,195(1):159-169 We show that if a Leray–Hopf solution u of the three-dimensional Navier–Stokes equation belongs to C((0,T]; B-1￥,￥){C((0,T]; B^{-1}_{\infty,\infty})} or its jumps in the B-1￥,￥{B^{-1}_{\infty,\infty}}-norm do not exceed a constant multiple of viscosity, then u is regular for (0, T]. Our method uses frequency local estimates on the nonlinear term, and yields an extension of the classical Ladyzhenskaya–Prodi–Serrin criterion.      18. Spectral Stability of Small-Amplitude Viscous Shock Waves in Several Space Dimensions      Heinrich Freistühler  Peter Szmolyan 《Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis》2010,195(2):353-373 A planar viscous shock profile of a hyperbolic–parabolic system of conservation laws is a steady solution in a moving coordinate frame. The asymptotic stability of viscous profiles and the related vanishing-viscosity limit are delicate questions already in the well understood case of one space dimension and even more so in the case of several space dimensions. It is a natural idea to study the stability of viscous profiles by analyzing the spectrum of the linearization about the profile. The Evans function method provides a geometric dynamical-systems framework to study the eigenvalue problem. In this approach eigenvalues correspond to zeros of an essentially analytic function E(rl,rw){\mathcal{E}(\rho\lambda,\rho\omega)} which detects nontrivial intersections of the so-called stable and unstable spaces, that is, spaces of solutions that decay on one (“−∞”) or the other side (“ + ∞”) of the shock wave, respectively. In a series of pioneering papers, Kevin Zumbrun and collaborators have established in various contexts that spectral stability, that is, the non-vanishing of E(rl,rw){\mathcal{E}(\rho\lambda,\rho\omega)} and the non-vanishing of the Lopatinski–Kreiss–Majda function Δ(λ,ω), imply nonlinear stability of viscous shock profiles in several space dimensions. In this paper we show that these conditions hold true for small amplitude extreme shocks under natural assumptions. This is done by exploiting the slow-fast nature of the small-amplitude limit, which was used in a previous paper by the authors to prove spectral stability of small-amplitude shock waves in one space dimension. Geometric singular perturbation methods are applied to decompose the stable and unstable spaces into subbundles with good control over their limiting behavior. Three qualitatively different regimes are distinguished that relate the small strength e{\epsilon} of the shock wave to appropriate ranges of values of the spectral parameters (ρλ, ρ ω). Various rescalings are used to overcome apparent degeneracies in the problem caused by loss of hyperbolicity or lack of transversality.      19. Natural Convection Induced by a Centrifugal Force Field in a Horizontal Annular Porous Layer Saturated with a Binary Fluid      Z. Alloui  P. Vasseur 《Transport in Porous Media》2011,88(1):169-185 The Darcy Model with the Boussinesq approximation is used to study natural convection in a horizontal annular porous layer filled with a binary fluid, under the influence of a centrifugal force field. Neumann boundary conditions for temperature and concentration are applied on the inner and outer boundary of the enclosure. The governing parameters for the problem are the Rayleigh number, Ra, the Lewis number, Le, the buoyancy ratio, j{\varphi } , the radius ratio of the cavity, R, the normalized porosity, e{\varepsilon } , and parameter a defining double-diffusive convection (a = 0) or Soret induced convection (a = 1). For convection in a thin annular layer (R → 1), analytical solutions for the stream function, temperature and concentration fields are obtained using a concentric flow approximation and an integral form of the energy equation. The critical Rayleigh number for the onset of supercritical convection is predicted explicitly by the present model. Also, results are obtained from the analytical model for finite amplitude convection for which the flow and heat and mass transfer are presented in terms of the governing parameters of the problem. Numerical solutions of the full governing equations are obtained for a wide range of the governing parameters. A good agreement is observed between the analytical model and the numerical simulations.      20. Homogenization of Non-linear Scalar Conservation Laws      Anne-Laure Dalibard 《Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis》2009,192(1):117-164 We study the limit as ε → 0 of the entropy solutions of the equation . We prove that the sequence u ε two-scale converges toward a function u(t, x, y), and u is the unique solution of a limit evolution problem. The remarkable point is that the limit problem is not a scalar conservation law, but rather a kinetic equation in which the macroscopic and microscopic variables are mixed. We also prove a strong convergence result in .

Lower Bound for the Energy of Bloch Walls in Micromagnetics

We study a two-dimensional nonconvex and nonlocal energy in micromagnetics defined over S ²-valued vector fields. This energy depends on two small parameters, β and e{\varepsilon} , penalizing the divergence of the vector field and its vertical component, respectively. Our objective is to analyze the asymptotic regime b << e << 1{\beta \ll \varepsilon \ll 1} through the method of Γ-convergence. Finite energy configurations tend to become divergence-free and in-plane in the magnetic sample except in some small regions of typical width e{\varepsilon} (called Bloch walls) where the magnetization connects two directions on S ². We are interested in quantifying the limit energy of the transition layers in terms of the jump size between these directions. For one-dimensional transition layers, we show by Γ-convergence analysis that the exact line density of the energy is quadratic in the jump size. We expect the same behaviour for the two-dimensional model. In order to prove that, we investigate the concept of entropies. In the prototype case of a periodic strip, we establish a quadratic lower bound for the energy with a non-optimal constant. Then we introduce and study a special class of Lipschitz entropies and obtain lower bounds coinciding with the one-dimensional Γ-limit in some particular cases. Finally, we show that entropies are not appropriate in general for proving the expected sharp lower bound.     

On the Existence and Conditional Energetic Stability of Solitary Gravity-Capillary Surface Waves on Deep Water

This paper presents an existence and stability theory for gravity-capillary solitary waves on the surface of a body of water of infinite depth. Exploiting a classical variational principle, we prove the existence of a minimiser of the wave energy E{{\mathcal E}} subject to the constraint I=?2m{{\mathcal I}=\sqrt{2}\mu}, where I{{\mathcal I}} is the wave momentum and 0 < m << 1{0 < \mu \ll 1} . Since E{{\mathcal E}} and I{{\mathcal I}} are both conserved quantities a standard argument asserts the stability of the set D _μ of minimisers: solutions starting near D _μ remain close to D _μ in a suitably defined energy space over their interval of existence. In the applied mathematics literature solitary water waves of the present kind are modelled as solutions of the nonlinear Schr?dinger equation with cubic focussing nonlinearity. We show that the waves detected by our variational method converge (after an appropriate rescaling) to solutions of this model equation as mˉ 0{\mu \downarrow 0} .     

On the Dynamics of Solitons in the Nonlinear Schr?dinger Equation

We study the behavior of the soliton solutions of the equation i\frac?y?t = - \frac12m Dy+ \frac12W_e^￠(y) + V(x)y,i\frac{\partial\psi}{{\partial}t} = - \frac{1}{2m} \Delta\psi + \frac{1}{2}W_{\varepsilon}^{\prime}(\psi) + V(x){\psi},     

Fully Developed Forced Convection in a Parallel Plate Channel with a Centered Porous Layer

In this study, fully developed heat and fluid flow in a parallel plate channel partially filled with porous layer is analyzed both analytically and numerically. The porous layer is located at the center of the channel and uniform heat flux is applied at the walls. The heat and fluid flow equations for clear fluid and porous regions are separately solved. Continues shear stress and heat flux conditions at the interface are used to determine the interface velocity and temperature. The velocity and temperature profiles in the channel for different values of Darcy number, thermal conductivity ratio, and porous layer thickness are plotted and discussed. The values of Nusselt number and friction factor of a fully clear fluid channel (Nu _cl = 4.12 and fRe _cl = 24) are used to define heat transfer increment ratio (e_th = Nu_p/Nu_cl)({\varepsilon _{\rm th} =Nu_{\rm p}/Nu_{\rm cl})} and pressure drop increment ratio (e_p = fRe_p/fRe_cl )({\varepsilon_{\rm p} =fRe_{\rm p}/fRe_{\rm cl} )} and observe the effects of an inserted porous layer on the increase of heat transfer and pressure drop. The heat transfer and pressure drop increment ratios are used to define an overall performance (e = e_th/e_p)({\varepsilon = \varepsilon_{\rm th}/\varepsilon_{\rm p})} to evaluate overall benefits of an inserted porous layer in a parallel plate channel. The obtained results showed that for a partially porous filled channel, the value of e{\varepsilon} is highly influenced from Darcy number, but it is not affected from thermal conductivity ratio (k _r) when k _r > 2. For a fully porous material filled channel, the value of e{\varepsilon} is considerably affected from thermal conductivity ratio as the porous medium is in contact with the channel walls.     

Asymptotic Analysis of Shell-like Inclusions with High Rigidity

We study the problem of an elastic shell-like inclusion with high rigidity in a three-dimensional domain by means of the asymptotic expansion method. The analysis is carried out in a general framework of curvilinear coordinates. After defining a small real adimensional parameter ε, we characterize the limit problems when the rigidity of the inclusion has order of magnitude \frac1e\frac{1}{\varepsilon } and \frac1e³\frac{1}{\varepsilon^{3}} with respect to the rigidities of the surrounding bodies. Moreover, we prove the strong convergence of the solution of the initial three-dimensional problem towards the solution of the simplified limit problem.     

A systematic derivation of a consistent set of “Boussinesq equations”

The often used “Boussinesq equations” for the determination of the coupled flow and temperature field in natural convection are systematically deduced by an asymptotic approach. With the nondimensional temperature difference that drives the flow, ?, as a perturbation parameter the leading order equations are identified as the appropriate equations, named “asymptotic Boussinesq equations”. These equations appear as the distinguished limit $\varepsilon\rightarrow0The often used “Boussinesq equations” for the determination of the coupled flow and temperature field in natural convection are systematically deduced by an asymptotic approach. With the nondimensional temperature difference that drives the flow, ɛ, as a perturbation parameter the leading order equations are identified as the appropriate equations, named “asymptotic Boussinesq equations”. These equations appear as the distinguished limit e?0\varepsilon\rightarrow0 and Ec? 0{Ec}\rightarrow 0 with Ec/e = const.{Ec}/\varepsilon =const. The equations are compared to “Boussinesq equations” of other studies and used to calculate Nusselt numbers in laminar and turbulent flows in infinite vertical channels as an example and for the justification of the asymptotic approach.     

Global Nonexistence Theorems for a Class of Evolution Equations with Dissipation

We study abstract evolution equations with nonlinear damping terms and source terms, including as a particular case a nonlinear wave equation of the type $ \ba{cl} u_{tt}-\Delta u+ b|u_t|^{m-2}u_t=c|u|^{p-2}u, &;(t,x)\in [0,T)\times\Omega,\\[6pt] u(t,x)=0, &;(t,x)\in [0,T)\times\partial \Omega,\\[6pt] u(0,\cdot)=u_0\in H_0^1(\Omega), \quad u_t(0,\cdot)=v_0\in L^2(\Omega),\es&; \ea $ \ba{cl} u_{tt}-\Delta u+ b|u_t|^{m-2}u_t=c|u|^{p-2}u, &;(t,x)\in [0,T)\times\Omega,\\[6pt] u(t,x)=0, &;(t,x)\in [0,T)\times\partial \Omega,\\[6pt] u(0,\cdot)=u_0\in H_0^1(\Omega), \quad u_t(0,\cdot)=v_0\in L^2(\Omega),\es&; \ea where 0 < T ￡ ￥0\Omega is a bounded regular open subset of \mathbbRⁿ\mathbb{R}^n, n 3 1n\ge 1, b,c > 0b,c>0, p > 2p>2, m > 1m>1. We prove a global nonexistence theorem for positive initial value of the energy when 1 < m < p,    2 < p ￡ \frac2nn-2. 1-Laplacian operator, q > 1q>1.     

Metastable Periodic Patterns in Singularly Perturbed Delayed Equations

We consider the scalar delayed differential equation e[(x)\dot](t)=-x(t) +f(x(t-1)){\epsilon\dot x(t)=-x(t)\,+f(x(t-1))}, where ${\epsilon\,{>}\,0}${\epsilon\,{>}\,0} and f verifies either df/dx > 0 or df/dx < 0 and some other conditions. We present theorems indicating that a generic initial condition with sign changes generates a solution with a transient time of order exp(c/e){{\rm exp}(c{/}\epsilon)}, for some c > 0. We call it a metastable solution. During this transient a finite time span of the solution looks like that of a periodic function. It is remarkable that if df/dx > 0 then f must be odd or present some other very special symmetry in order to support metastable solutions, while this condition is absent in the case df/dx < 0. Explicit e{\epsilon}-asymptotics for the motion of zeroes of a solution and for the transient time regime are presented.     

The Instationary Navier–Stokes Equations in Weighted Bessel-Potential Spaces

We investigate the solvability of the instationary Navier–Stokes equations with fully inhomogeneous data in a bounded domain W ì \mathbbRⁿ \Omega \subset {{\mathbb{R}}^{n}} . The class of solutions is contained in L^r(0, T; H^{b, q}_w (W))L^{r}(0, T; H^{\beta, q}_{w} (\Omega)), where H^{b, q}_w (W){H^{\beta, q}_{w}} (\Omega) is a Bessel-Potential space with a Muckenhoupt weight w. In this context we derive solvability for small data, where this smallness can be realized by the restriction to a short time interval. Depending on the order of this Bessel-Potential space we are dealing with strong solutions, weak solutions, or with very weak solutions.     

The Regularity of Weak Solutions of the 3D Navier–Stokes Equations in {B^{-1}_{\infty,\infty}}

We show that if a Leray–Hopf solution u of the three-dimensional Navier–Stokes equation belongs to C((0,T]; B^-1_￥,￥){C((0,T]; B^{-1}_{\infty,\infty})} or its jumps in the B^-1_￥,￥{B^{-1}_{\infty,\infty}}-norm do not exceed a constant multiple of viscosity, then u is regular for (0, T]. Our method uses frequency local estimates on the nonlinear term, and yields an extension of the classical Ladyzhenskaya–Prodi–Serrin criterion.     

Spectral Stability of Small-Amplitude Viscous Shock Waves in Several Space Dimensions

A planar viscous shock profile of a hyperbolic–parabolic system of conservation laws is a steady solution in a moving coordinate frame. The asymptotic stability of viscous profiles and the related vanishing-viscosity limit are delicate questions already in the well understood case of one space dimension and even more so in the case of several space dimensions. It is a natural idea to study the stability of viscous profiles by analyzing the spectrum of the linearization about the profile. The Evans function method provides a geometric dynamical-systems framework to study the eigenvalue problem. In this approach eigenvalues correspond to zeros of an essentially analytic function E(rl,rw){\mathcal{E}(\rho\lambda,\rho\omega)} which detects nontrivial intersections of the so-called stable and unstable spaces, that is, spaces of solutions that decay on one (“−∞”) or the other side (“ + ∞”) of the shock wave, respectively. In a series of pioneering papers, Kevin Zumbrun and collaborators have established in various contexts that spectral stability, that is, the non-vanishing of E(rl,rw){\mathcal{E}(\rho\lambda,\rho\omega)} and the non-vanishing of the Lopatinski–Kreiss–Majda function Δ(λ,ω), imply nonlinear stability of viscous shock profiles in several space dimensions. In this paper we show that these conditions hold true for small amplitude extreme shocks under natural assumptions. This is done by exploiting the slow-fast nature of the small-amplitude limit, which was used in a previous paper by the authors to prove spectral stability of small-amplitude shock waves in one space dimension. Geometric singular perturbation methods are applied to decompose the stable and unstable spaces into subbundles with good control over their limiting behavior. Three qualitatively different regimes are distinguished that relate the small strength e{\epsilon} of the shock wave to appropriate ranges of values of the spectral parameters (ρλ, ρ ω). Various rescalings are used to overcome apparent degeneracies in the problem caused by loss of hyperbolicity or lack of transversality.     

Natural Convection Induced by a Centrifugal Force Field in a Horizontal Annular Porous Layer Saturated with a Binary Fluid

The Darcy Model with the Boussinesq approximation is used to study natural convection in a horizontal annular porous layer filled with a binary fluid, under the influence of a centrifugal force field. Neumann boundary conditions for temperature and concentration are applied on the inner and outer boundary of the enclosure. The governing parameters for the problem are the Rayleigh number, Ra, the Lewis number, Le, the buoyancy ratio, j{\varphi } , the radius ratio of the cavity, R, the normalized porosity, e{\varepsilon } , and parameter a defining double-diffusive convection (a = 0) or Soret induced convection (a = 1). For convection in a thin annular layer (R → 1), analytical solutions for the stream function, temperature and concentration fields are obtained using a concentric flow approximation and an integral form of the energy equation. The critical Rayleigh number for the onset of supercritical convection is predicted explicitly by the present model. Also, results are obtained from the analytical model for finite amplitude convection for which the flow and heat and mass transfer are presented in terms of the governing parameters of the problem. Numerical solutions of the full governing equations are obtained for a wide range of the governing parameters. A good agreement is observed between the analytical model and the numerical simulations.     

Homogenization of Non-linear Scalar Conservation Laws

We study the limit as ε → 0 of the entropy solutions of the equation . We prove that the sequence u ^ε two-scale converges toward a function u(t, x, y), and u is the unique solution of a limit evolution problem. The remarkable point is that the limit problem is not a scalar conservation law, but rather a kinetic equation in which the macroscopic and microscopic variables are mixed. We also prove a strong convergence result in .