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Initial-boundary value problems for discrete evolution equations: discrete linear Schrodinger and integrable discrete nonlinear Schrodinger equations
We present a method to solve initial-boundary value problems for linear and
integrable nonlinear differential-difference evolution equations. The method is
the discrete version of the one developed by A. S. Fokas to solve
initial-boundary value problems for linear and integrable nonlinear partial
differential equations via an extension of the inverse scattering transform.
The method takes advantage of the Lax pair formulation for both linear and
nonlinear equations, and is based on the simultaneous spectral analysis of both
parts of the Lax pair. A key role is also played by the global algebraic
relation that couples all known and unknown boundary values. Even though
additional technical complications arise in discrete problems compared to
continuum ones, we show that a similar approach can also solve initial-boundary
value problems for linear and integrable nonlinear differential-difference
equations. We demonstrate the method by solving initial-boundary value problems
for the discrete analogue of both the linear and the nonlinear Schrodinger
equations, comparing the solution to those of the corresponding continuum
problems. In the linear case we also explicitly discuss Robin-type boundary
conditions not solvable by Fourier series. In the nonlinear case we also
identify the linearizable boundary conditions, we discuss the elimination of
the unknown boundary datum, we obtain explicitly the linear and continuum limit
of the solution, and we write down the soliton solutions.Comment: 41 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Inverse Problem
Characteristic Evolution and Matching
I review the development of numerical evolution codes for general relativity
based upon the characteristic initial value problem. Progress in characteristic
evolution is traced from the early stage of 1D feasibility studies to 2D
axisymmetric codes that accurately simulate the oscillations and gravitational
collapse of relativistic stars and to current 3D codes that provide pieces of a
binary black hole spacetime. Cauchy codes have now been successful at
simulating all aspects of the binary black hole problem inside an artificially
constructed outer boundary. A prime application of characteristic evolution is
to extend such simulations to null infinity where the waveform from the binary
inspiral and merger can be unambiguously computed. This has now been
accomplished by Cauchy-characteristic extraction, where data for the
characteristic evolution is supplied by Cauchy data on an extraction worldtube
inside the artificial outer boundary. The ultimate application of
characteristic evolution is to eliminate the role of this outer boundary by
constructing a global solution via Cauchy-characteristic matching. Progress in
this direction is discussed.Comment: New version to appear in Living Reviews 2012. arXiv admin note:
updated version of arXiv:gr-qc/050809
Transonic Flows with Shocks Past Curved Wedges for the Full Euler Equations
We establish the existence, stability, and asymptotic behavior of transonic
flows with a transonic shock past a curved wedge for the steady full Euler
equations in an important physical regime, which form a nonlinear system of
mixed-composite hyperbolic-elliptic type. To achieve this, we first employ the
coordinate transformation of Euler-Lagrange type and then exploit one of the
new equations to identify a potential function in Lagrangian coordinates. By
capturing the conservation properties of the Euler system, we derive a single
second-order nonlinear elliptic equation for the potential function in the
subsonic region so that the transonic shock problem is reformulated as a
one-phase free boundary problem for a second-order nonlinear elliptic equation
with the shock-front as a free boundary. One of the advantages of this approach
is that, given the shock location or quivalently the entropy function along the
shock-front downstream, all the physical variables can expressed as functions
of the gradient of the potential function, and the downstream asymptotic
behavior of the potential function at the infinite exit can be uniquely
determined with uniform decay rate.
To solve the free boundary problem, we employ the hodograph transformation to
transfer the free boundary to a fixed boundary, while keeping the ellipticity
of the second-order equations, and then update the entropy function to prove
that it has a fixed point. Another advantage in our analysis here is in the
context of the real full Euler equations so that the solutions do not
necessarily obey Bernoulli's law with a uniform Bernoulli constant, that is,
the Bernoulli constant is allowed to change for different fluid trajectories.Comment: 35 pages, 2 figures in Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems, 36
(2016
Global aspects of radiation memory
Gravitational radiation has a memory effect represented by a net change in
the relative positions of test particles. Both the linear and nonlinear sources
proposed for this radiation memory are of the "electric" type, or E mode, as
characterized by the even parity of the polarization pattern. Although
"magnetic" type, or B mode, radiation memory is mathematically possible, no
physically realistic source has been identified. There is an electromagnetic
counterpart to radiation memory in which the velocity of charged particles
obtain a net "kick". Again, the physically realistic sources of electromagnetic
radiation memory that have been identified are of the electric type. In this
paper, a global null cone description of the electromagnetic field is applied
to establish the non-existence of B mode radiation memory and the non-existence
of E mode radiation memory due to a bound charge distribution.Comment: Final version to be published in Class. Quantum Gra
Front propagation into unstable states: Universal algebraic convergence towards uniformly translating pulled fronts
Fronts that start from a local perturbation and propagate into a linearly
unstable state come in two classes: pulled and pushed. ``Pulled'' fronts are
``pulled along'' by the spreading of linear perturbations about the unstable
state, so their asymptotic speed equals the spreading speed of linear
perturbations of the unstable state. The central result of this paper is that
the velocity of pulled fronts converges universally for time like
. The parameters ,
, and are determined through a saddle point analysis from the
equation of motion linearized about the unstable invaded state. The interior of
the front is essentially slaved to the leading edge, and we derive a simple,
explicit and universal expression for its relaxation towards
. Our result, which can be viewed as a general center
manifold result for pulled front propagation, is derived in detail for the well
known nonlinear F-KPP diffusion equation, and extended to much more general
(sets of) equations (p.d.e.'s, difference equations, integro-differential
equations etc.). Our universal result for pulled fronts thus implies
independence (i) of the level curve which is used to track the front position,
(ii) of the precise nonlinearities, (iii) of the precise form of the linear
operators, and (iv) of the precise initial conditions. Our simulations confirm
all our analytical predictions in every detail. A consequence of the slow
algebraic relaxation is the breakdown of various perturbative schemes due to
the absence of adiabatic decoupling.Comment: 76 pages Latex, 15 figures, submitted to Physica D on March 31, 1999
-- revised version from February 25, 200
Supersonic Flow onto Solid Wedges, Multidimensional Shock Waves and Free Boundary Problems
When an upstream steady uniform supersonic flow impinges onto a symmetric
straight-sided wedge, governed by the Euler equations, there are two possible
steady oblique shock configurations if the wedge angle is less than the
detachment angle -- the steady weak shock with supersonic or subsonic
downstream flow (determined by the wedge angle that is less or larger than the
sonic angle) and the steady strong shock with subsonic downstream flow, both of
which satisfy the entropy condition. The fundamental issue -- whether one or
both of the steady weak and strong shocks are physically admissible solutions
-- has been vigorously debated over the past eight decades. In this paper, we
survey some recent developments on the stability analysis of the steady shock
solutions in both the steady and dynamic regimes. For the static stability, we
first show how the stability problem can be formulated as an initial-boundary
value type problem and then reformulate it into a free boundary problem when
the perturbation of both the upstream steady supersonic flow and the wedge
boundary are suitably regular and small, and we finally present some recent
results on the static stability of the steady supersonic and transonic shocks.
For the dynamic stability for potential flow, we first show how the stability
problem can be formulated as an initial-boundary value problem and then use the
self-similarity of the problem to reduce it into a boundary value problem and
further reformulate it into a free boundary problem, and we finally survey some
recent developments in solving this free boundary problem for the existence of
the Prandtl-Meyer configurations that tend to the steady weak supersonic or
transonic oblique shock solutions as time goes to infinity. Some further
developments and mathematical challenges in this direction are also discussed.Comment: 19 pages; 8 figures; accepted by Science China Mathematics on
February 22, 2017 (invited survey paper). doi: 10.1007/s11425-016-9045-
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