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Dispersive and diffusive-dispersive shock waves for nonconvex conservation laws
We consider two physically and mathematically distinct regularization
mechanisms of scalar hyperbolic conservation laws. When the flux is convex, the
combination of diffusion and dispersion are known to give rise to monotonic and
oscillatory traveling waves that approximate shock waves. The zero-diffusion
limits of these traveling waves are dynamically expanding dispersive shock
waves (DSWs). A richer set of wave solutions can be found when the flux is
non-convex. This review compares the structure of solutions of Riemann problems
for a conservation law with non-convex, cubic flux regularized by two different
mechanisms: 1) dispersion in the modified Korteweg--de Vries (mKdV) equation;
and 2) a combination of diffusion and dispersion in the mKdV-Burgers equation.
In the first case, the possible dynamics involve two qualitatively different
types of DSWs, rarefaction waves (RWs) and kinks (monotonic fronts). In the
second case, in addition to RWs, there are traveling wave solutions
approximating both classical (Lax) and non-classical (undercompressive) shock
waves. Despite the singular nature of the zero-diffusion limit and rather
differing analytical approaches employed in the descriptions of dispersive and
diffusive-dispersive regularization, the resulting comparison of the two cases
reveals a number of striking parallels. In contrast to the case of convex flux,
the mKdVB to mKdV mapping is not one-to-one. The mKdV kink solution is
identified as an undercompressive DSW. Other prominent features, such as
shock-rarefactions, also find their purely dispersive counterparts involving
special contact DSWs, which exhibit features analogous to contact
discontinuities. This review describes an important link between two major
areas of applied mathematics, hyperbolic conservation laws and nonlinear
dispersive waves.Comment: Revision from v2; 57 pages, 19 figure
Multidimensional Conservation Laws: Overview, Problems, and Perspective
Some of recent important developments are overviewed, several longstanding
open problems are discussed, and a perspective is presented for the
mathematical theory of multidimensional conservation laws. Some basic features
and phenomena of multidimensional hyperbolic conservation laws are revealed,
and some samples of multidimensional systems/models and related important
problems are presented and analyzed with emphasis on the prototypes that have
been solved or may be expected to be solved rigorously at least for some cases.
In particular, multidimensional steady supersonic problems and transonic
problems, shock reflection-diffraction problems, and related effective
nonlinear approaches are analyzed. A theory of divergence-measure vector fields
and related analytical frameworks for the analysis of entropy solutions are
discussed.Comment: 43 pages, 3 figure
Unique continuation property with partial information for two-dimensional anisotropic elasticity systems
In this paper, we establish a novel unique continuation property for
two-dimensional anisotropic elasticity systems with partial information. More
precisely, given a homogeneous elasticity system in a domain, we investigate
the unique continuation by assuming only the vanishing of one component of the
solution in a subdomain. Using the corresponding Riemann function, we prove
that the solution vanishes in the whole domain provided that the other
component vanishes at one point up to its second derivatives. Further, we
construct several examples showing the possibility of further reducing the
additional information of the other component. This result possesses remarkable
significance in both theoretical and practical aspects because the required
data is almost halved for the unique determination of the whole solution.Comment: 14 pages, 1 figur
Coupling techniques for nonlinear hyperbolic equations. IV. Multi-component coupling and multidimensional well-balanced schemes
This series of papers is devoted to the formulation and the approximation of
coupling problems for nonlinear hyperbolic equations. The coupling across an
interface in the physical space is formulated in term of an augmented system of
partial differential equations. In an earlier work, this strategy allowed us to
develop a regularization method based on a thick interface model in one space
variable. In the present paper, we significantly extend this framework and, in
addition, encompass equations in several space variables. This new formulation
includes the coupling of several distinct conservation laws and allows for a
possible covering in space. Our main contributions are, on one hand, the design
and analysis of a well-balanced finite volume method on general triangulations
and, on the other hand, a proof of convergence of this method toward entropy
solutions, extending Coquel, Cockburn, and LeFloch's theory (restricted to a
single conservation law without coupling). The core of our analysis is, first,
the derivation of entropy inequalities as well as a discrete entropy
dissipation estimate and, second, a proof of convergence toward the entropy
solution of the coupling problem.Comment: 37 page
A Positive and Entropy-Satisfying Finite Volume Scheme for the Baer-Nunziato Model
We present a relaxation scheme for approximating the entropy dissipating weak
solutions of the Baer-Nunziato two-phase flow model. This relaxation scheme is
straightforwardly obtained as an extension of the relaxation scheme designed in
[16] for the isentropic Baer-Nunziato model and consequently inherits its main
properties. To our knowledge, this is the only existing scheme for which the
approximated phase fractions, phase densities and phase internal energies are
proven to remain positive without any restrictive condition other than a
classical fully computable CFL condition. For ideal gas and stiffened gas
equations of state, real values of the phasic speeds of sound are also proven
to be maintained by the numerical scheme. It is also the only scheme for which
a discrete entropy inequality is proven, under a CFL condition derived from the
natural sub-characteristic condition associated with the relaxation
approximation. This last property, which ensures the non-linear stability of
the numerical method, is satisfied for any admissible equation of state. We
provide a numerical study for the convergence of the approximate solutions
towards some exact Riemann solutions. The numerical simulations show that the
relaxation scheme compares well with two of the most popular existing schemes
available for the Baer-Nunziato model, namely Schwendeman-Wahle-Kapila's
Godunov-type scheme [39] and Toro-Tokareva's HLLC scheme [42]. The relaxation
scheme also shows a higher precision and a lower computational cost (for
comparable accuracy) than a standard numerical scheme used in the nuclear
industry, namely Rusanov's scheme. Finally, we assess the good behavior of the
scheme when approximating vanishing phase solutions
Bi-partite entanglement entropy in integrable models with backscattering
In this paper we generalise the main result of a recent work by J. L. Cardy
and the present authors concerning the bi-partite entanglement entropy between
a connected region and its complement. There the expression of the leading
order correction to saturation in the large distance regime was obtained for
integrable quantum field theories possessing diagonal scattering matrices. It
was observed to depend only on the mass spectrum of the model and not on the
specific structure of the diagonal scattering matrix. Here we extend that
result to integrable models with backscattering (i.e. with non-diagonal
scattering matrices). We use again the replica method, which connects the
entanglement entropy to partition functions on Riemann surfaces with two branch
points. Our main conclusion is that the mentioned infrared correction takes
exactly the same form for theories with and without backscattering. In order to
give further support to this result, we provide a detailed analysis in the
sine-Gordon model in the coupling regime in which no bound states (breathers)
occur. As a consequence, we obtain the leading correction to the sine-Gordon
partition function on a Riemann surface in the large distance regime.
Observations are made concerning the limit of large number of sheets.Comment: 22 pages, 2 figure
Riemann solvers and undercompressive shocks of convex FPU chains
We consider FPU-type atomic chains with general convex potentials. The naive
continuum limit in the hyperbolic space-time scaling is the p-system of mass
and momentum conservation. We systematically compare Riemann solutions to the
p-system with numerical solutions to discrete Riemann problems in FPU chains,
and argue that the latter can be described by modified p-system Riemann
solvers. We allow the flux to have a turning point, and observe a third type of
elementary wave (conservative shocks) in the atomistic simulations. These waves
are heteroclinic travelling waves and correspond to non-classical,
undercompressive shocks of the p-system. We analyse such shocks for fluxes with
one or more turning points.
Depending on the convexity properties of the flux we propose FPU-Riemann
solvers. Our numerical simulations confirm that Lax-shocks are replaced by so
called dispersive shocks. For convex-concave flux we provide numerical evidence
that convex FPU chains follow the p-system in generating conservative shocks
that are supersonic. For concave-convex flux, however, the conservative shocks
of the p-system are subsonic and do not appear in FPU-Riemann solutions
A note on regularity and failure of regularity for systems of conservation laws via Lagrangian formulation
The paper recalls two of the regularity results for Burgers' equation, and
discusses what happens in the case of genuinely nonlinear, strictly hyperbolic
systems of conservation laws. The first regularity result which is considered
is Oleinik-Ambroso-De Lellis SBV estimate: it provides bounds on the
x-derivative of u when u is an entropy solution of the Cauchy problem for
Burgers' equation with bounded initial data. Its extensions to the case of
systems is then mentioned. The second regularity result of debate is
Schaeffer's theorem: entropy solutions to Burgers' equation with smooth and
generic, in a Baire category sense, initial data are piecewise smooth. The
failure of the same regularity for general genuinely nonlinear systems is next
described. The main focus of this paper is indeed including heuristically an
original counterexample where a kind of stability of a shock pattern made by
infinitely many shocks shows up, referring to [Caravenna-Spinolo] for the
rigorous result.Comment: 10 pages, 1 figur
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