The Impact of Mineral Dissolution on Drainage Relative Permeability and Residual Trapping in Two Carbonate Rocks

Transport in Porous Media - Carbon dioxide injection into deep saline aquifers is governed by a number of physico-chemical processes including mineral dissolution and precipitation, multiphase...     

Non-collapsing in fully non-linear curvature flows

We consider compact, embedded hypersurfaces of Euclidean spaces evolving by fully non-linear flows in which the normal speed of motion is a homogeneous degree one, concave or convex function of the principal curvatures, and prove a non-collapsing estimate: Precisely, the function which gives the curvature of the largest interior ball touching the hypersurface at each point is a subsolution of the linearized flow equation if the speed is concave. If the speed is convex then there is an analogous statement for exterior balls. In particular, if the hypersurface moves with positive speed and the speed is concave in the principal curvatures, the curvature of the largest touching interior ball is bounded by a multiple of the speed as long as the solution exists. The proof uses a maximum principle applied to a function of two points on the evolving hypersurface. We illustrate the techniques required for dealing with such functions in a proof of the known containment principle for flows of hypersurfaces.     

Eigenvalue Comparison on Bakry-Emery Manifolds

We prove a comparison theorem on the modulus of continuity of the solution of a heat equation with a drifting term on Bakry-Emery manifolds. A direct consequence of the result is an alternate proof of an eigenvalue comparison result of Bakry-Qian. Examples are given to show that the estimate is sharp. Discussions on an explicit lower estimate for the corresponding ODE and an application to the diameter lower bound for gradient shrinking solitons are also included.     

Dichotomic maps for delayed equations

The aim of this work is to apply the method of “dichotomic maps” to study stability of the null solutions of delayed functional differential equations. Preliminaries are presented followed by proofs of main theorems on simple and asymptotic stability. Some particular cases which have been studied by others authors with more restrictive hypotheses and more elaborated methods are showed as illustrative examples enhancing the advantages of the dichotomic maps approach.     

Directional and Anisotropic Regularity and Irregularity Criteria in Triebel Wavelet Bases

Many natural mathematical objects, as well as many multi-dimensional signals and images from real physical problems, need to distinguish local directional behaviors (for tracking contours in image processing for example). Using some results of Jaffard and Triebel, we obtain criteria of directional and anisotropic regularities by decay conditions on Triebel anisotropic wavelet coefficients (resp. wavelet leaders).     

DJKM algebras and non-classical orthogonal polynomials

We describe families of polynomials arising in the study of the universal central extensions of Lie algebras introduced by Date, Jimbo, Kashiwara, and Miwa (1983) [6] in their work on the Landau–Lifshitz equations. We show these two families of polynomials satisfy certain fourth order linear differential equations by direct computation and one of the families is a particular collection of associated ultraspherical polynomials.