This work is devoted to the construction of weakly nonlinear, highly oscillating, current vortex sheet solutions to the incompressible magnetohydrodynamics equations. Current vortex sheets are piecewise smooth solutions to the incompressible magnetohydrodynamics equations that satisfy suitable jump conditions for the velocity and magnetic field on the (free) discontinuity surface. In this work, we complete an earlier work by Ali and Hunter and construct approximate solutions at any arbitrarily large order of accuracy to the free boundary problem in three space dimensions when the initial discontinuity displays high frequency oscillations. As evidenced in earlier works, high frequency oscillations of the current vortex sheet give rise to `surface waves' on either side of the sheet. Such waves decay exponentially in the normal direction to the current vortex sheet and, in the weakly nonlinear regime that we consider here, their leading amplitude is governed by a nonlocal Hamilton-Jacobitype equation known as the `HIZ equation' (standing for Hamilton-Il'insky-Zabolotskaya) in the context of Rayleigh waves in elastodynamics. The main achievement of our work is to develop a systematic approach for constructing arbitrarily many correctors to the leading amplitude. Based on a suitable duality formula, we exhibit necessary and sufficient solvability conditions for the corrector equations that need to be solved iteratively. Theverification of these solvability conditions is based on a combination of mere algebra and arguments of combinatorial analysis. The construction of arbitrarily many correctors enables us to produce infinitely accurate approximate solutions to the free boundary problem. Eventually, we show that the rectification phenomenon exhibited by Marcou in the context of Rayleigh waves does not arise in the same way for the current vortex sheet problem.
We propose some one-dimensional reduced models for the three-dimensional electron magnetohydrodynamics which involves a highly nonlinear Hall term with intricate structure. The models contain nonlocal nonlinear terms. Local well-posedness is obtained in certain circumstances. In contrast, for a model with nonlocal transport term, we show that finite time singularity may occur for some initial data.
We investigate the nonlinear instability of a smooth Rayleigh-Taylor steady-state solution (including the case of heavier density with increasing height) to the three-dimensional incompressible nonhomogeneous magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations of zero resistivity in the presence of a uniform gravitational field. We first analyze the linearized equations around the steady-state solution. Then we construct solutions of the linearized problem that grow in time in the Sobolev space $H^k$, thus leading to the linear instability. With the help of the constructed unstable solutions of the linearized…
We study the large-time behavior of strong solutions to the equations of a planar magnetohydrodynamic compressible flow with the heat conductivity proportional to a nonnegative power of the temperature. Both the specific volume and the temperature are proved to be bounded from below and above independently of time. Moreover, it is shown that the global strong solution is nonlinearly exponentially stable as time tends to infinity. Our result can be regarded as a natural generalization of the previous ones for the compressible Navier-Stokes system to MHD system with either constant heat-conducti…
We construct and study global solutions for the 3-dimensional incompressible MHD systems with arbitrary small viscosity. In particular, we provide a rigorous justification for the following dynamical phenomenon observed in many contexts: the solution initially behaves like non-dispersive waves and the shape of the solution persists for a very long time (proportional to the Reynolds number), thereafter, the solution will be damped due to the long-time accumulation of the diffusive effects, eventually, the total energy of the system becomes extremely small compared to the viscosity so that the d…
In this article we study the long-time behaviour of a system of nonlinear Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) modelling the motion of incompressible, isothermal and conducting modified bipolar fluids in presence of magnetic field. We mainly prove the existence of a global attractor denoted by $\A$ for the nonlinear semigroup associated to the aforementioned systems of nonlinear PDEs. We also show that this nonlinear semigroup is uniformly differentiable on $\A$. This fact enables us to go further and prove that the attractor $\A$ is of finite-dimensional and we give an explicit bounds for it…
This paper is a first step in the study of the so-called Taylor model, introduced by J.B. Taylor in \cite{Taylor}. This system of nonlinear PDE's is derived from the viscous incompressible MHD equations, through an asymptotics relevant to the Earth's magnetic field. We consider here a simple class of linearizations of the Taylor model, for which we show well-posedness.
We study several mathematical aspects of a system of equations modelling the interaction between short waves, described by a nonlinear Schrödinger equation, and long waves, described by the equations of magnetohydrodynamics for a compressible, heat conductive fluid. The system in question models an aurora-type phenomenon, where a short wave propagates along the streamlines of a magnetohydrodynamic medium. We focus on the one dimensional (planar) version of the model and address the problem of well posedness as well as convergence of the sequence of solutions as the bulk viscosity tends to zero…
In this paper, the global smooth solution of Cauchy's problem of incompressible, resistive, viscous Hall-magnetohydrodynamics (Hall-MHD) is studied. By exploring the nonlinear structure of Hall-MHD equations, a class of large initial data is constructed, which can be arbitrarily large in $H^3(\mathbb{R}^3)$. Our result may also be considered as the extension of work of Lei-Lin-Zhou from the second-order semi-linear equations to the second-order quasilinear equations, because the Hall term elevates the Hall-MHD system to the quasilinear level.
We study the non-diffusive Westervelt equation in the weakly nonlinear regime. We show that the leading profile equation is of Burgers' type. We show that a compactly supported nonlinearity $α$ can be reconstructed from the tilt of the transmitted high frequency wave packets sent from different directions since those tilts are proportional to the X-ray transform of $α$.
We consider the initial value problem for cubic derivative nonlinear Schrödinger equation in one space dimension. Under a suitable weakly dissipative condition on the nonlinearity, we show that the small data solution has a logarithmic time decay in $L^2$.
In this paper we initiate the mathematical analysis of a system of nonlinear Stochastic Partial Differential equations describing the motion of turbulent Non-Newtonian media in the presence of fluctuating magnetic field. The system is basically obtained by a coupling of the dynamical equations of a Non-Newtonian fluids having $p$-structure and the Maxwell equations. We mainly show the existence of weak martingale solutions and their exponential decay when time goes to infinity.
A theorem is proved on the uniform estimation of the residual term of the asymptotic expansion with respect to a small parameter of the solution of the initial problem for a singularly perturbed differential operator weakly nonlinear transport equation in the critical case.
We prove that the weakly damped nonlinear Schrödinger flow in $L^2(\mathbb{R})$ provides a dynamical system which possesses a global attractor. The proof relies on the continuity of the Schrödinger flow for the weak topology in $L^2(\R)$.
In this paper, we consider a weakly coupled system of a wave and damped Klein-Gordon equation with nonlinearities of derivative type. We prove a blow-up result for the Cauchy problem associated with this system for nonnegative and compactly supported data by means of an iteration argument.
The Brio system is a two-by-two system of conservation laws arising as a simplified model in ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). The system has the form \begin{align*} \partial_t u+\partial_x \Big({\textstyle \frac{u^2+v^2}{2}}\Big)=0,\\ \partial_t v+\partial_x \big(v(u-1)\big)=0. \end{align*} It was found in previous works that the standard theory of hyperbolic conservation laws does not apply to this system since the characteristic fields are not genuinely nonlinear on the set $v=0$. As a consequence, certain Riemann problems have no weak solutions in the traditional class of functions of boun…
Entropy weak solutions with bounded periodic initial data are considered for the system of weakly nonlinear gas dynamics. Through a modified Glimm scheme, an approximate solution sequence is constructed, and then a priori estimates are provided with the methods of approximate characteristics and approximate conservation laws, which gives not only the existence and uniqueness but also the uniform total variation bounds for the entropy solutions.
In this paper, we derive a new shallow asymptotic model for the free boundary plasma-vacuum problem governed by the magnetohydrodynamic equation, vital in describing large-scale processes in flows of astrophysical plasma. More precisely, we present the magnetic analogue of the 2D Green-Naghdi equations for water waves in the presence of weakly shared vorticity and magnetic currents. The method is inspired by developed ideas for hydrodynamics flows in by Castro and Lannes (2014) to reduce the $(d+1)$-dimensional dynamics of the problem to a finite cascade of equations which can be closed at the…
We consider the free boundary problem for non-relativistic and relativistic ideal compressible magnetohydrodynamics in two and three spatial dimensions with the total pressure vanishing on the plasma--vacuum interface. We establish the local-in-time existence and uniqueness of solutions to this nonlinear characteristic hyperbolic problem under the Rayleigh--Taylor sign condition on the total pressure. The proof is based on certain tame estimates in anisotropic Sobolev spaces for the linearized problem and a modification of the Nash--Moser iteration scheme. Our result is uniform in the light sp…
We prove the global existence of small data solution in all space dimension for weakly coupled systems of semi-linear effectively damped wave, with different time-dependent coefficients in the dissipation terms. Moreover, nonlinearity terms $ f(t,u) $ and $ g(t,v) $ satisfying some properties of the parabolic equation. We study the problem in several classes of regularity.
This technical note is a complement to an earlier paper [Benzoni-Gavage \& Rosini, Comput. Math. Appl. 2009], which aims at a deeper understanding of a basic model for propagating phase boundaries that was proved to admit surface waves [Benzoni-Gavage, Nonlinear Anal. 1998]. The amplitude equation governing the evolution of weakly nonlinear surface waves for that model is computed explicitly, and is eventually found to have enough symmetry properties for the associated Cauchy problem to be locally well-posed.
We consider systems of weakly coupled Schrödinger equations with nonconstant potentials and we investigate the existence of nontrivial nonnegative solutions which concentrate around local minima of the potentials. We obtain sufficient and necessary conditions for a sequence of least energy solutions to concentrate.
We would like to study a weakly coupled system of semi-linear classical damped wave equations with moduli of continuity in nonlinearities whose powers belong to the critical curve in the $p-q$ plane. The main goal of this paper is to find out the sharp conditions of these moduli of continuity which classify between global (in time) existence of small data solutions and finite time blow-up of solutions.
We consider the free boundary problem for a plasma--vacuum interface in ideal incompressible magnetohydrodynamics. Unlike the classical statement, where the vacuum magnetic field obeys the div-curl system of pre-Maxwell dynamics, we do not neglect the displacement current in the vacuum region and consider the Maxwell equations for electric and magnetic fields. Our aim is to construct highly oscillating surface wave solutions in weakly nonlinear regime to this plasma--vacuum interface problem. Under a necessary and sufficient stability condition for a piecewise constant background state, we con…
In this work we study the blow-up of solutions of a weakly coupled system of damped semilinear wave equations in the scattering case with power nonlinearities. We apply an iteration method to study both the subcritical case and the critical case. In the subcritical case our approach is based on lower bounds for the space averages of the components of local solutions. In the critical case we use the slicing method and a couple of auxiliary functions, recently introduced by Wakasa-Yordanov, to modify the definition of the functionals with the introduction of weight terms. In particular, we find …
We are concerned with the study of the well-posedness of a nonlinear diffusion equation with a monotonically increasing multivalued time-dependent nonlinearity derived from a convex continuous potential having a superlinear growth to infinity. The results in this paper state that the solution of the nonlinear equation can be retrieved as the null minimizer of an appropriate minimization problem for a convex functional involving the potential and its conjugate. This approach, inspired by the Brezis-Ekeland variational principle, provides new existence results under minimal growth and coercivity…
We prove the existence of ground state solutions for a class of nonlinear elliptic equations, arising in the production of standing wave solutions to an associated family of nonlinear Schrödinger equations. We examine two constrained minimization problems, which give rise to such solutions. One yields what we call $F_λ$-minimizers, the other energy minimizers. We produce such ground state solutions on a class of Riemannian manifolds called weakly homogeneous spaces, and establish smoothness, positivity, and decay properties. We also identify classes of Riemannian manifolds with no such minimiz…
We show existence of solitary-wave solutions to the equation \begin{equation*} u_t+ (Lu - n(u))_x = 0\,, \end{equation*} for weak assumptions on the dispersion $L$ and the nonlinearity $n$. The symbol $m$ of the Fourier multiplier $L$ is allowed to be of low positive order ($s > 0$), while $n$ need only be locally Lipschitz and asymptotically homogeneous at zero. We shall discover such solutions in Sobolev spaces contained in $H^{1+s}$.
We consider the cubic nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equation set on a two dimensional box of size $L$ with periodic boundary conditions. By taking the large box limit $L \to \infty$ in the weakly nonlinear regime (characterized by smallness in the critical space), we derive a new equation set on $\R^2$ that approximates the dynamics of the frequency modes. This nonlinear equation turns out to be Hamiltonian and enjoys interesting symmetries, such as its invariance under Fourier transform, as well as several families of explicit solutions. A large part of this work is devoted to a rigorous approx…
We study the simultaneous semi-classical and adiabatic asymptotics for a class of (weakly) nonlinear Schroedinger equations with a fast periodic potential and a slowly varying confinement potential. A rigorous two-scale WKB-analysis, locally in time, is performed. The main nonlinear phenomenon is a modification of the Berry phase.
We revisit the time-adiabatic theorem of quantum mechanics and show that it can be extended to weakly nonlinear situations, that is to nonlinear Schroedinger equations in which either the nonlinear coupling constant or, equivalently, the solution is asymptotically small. To this end, a notion of criticality is introduced at which the linear bound states stay adiabatically stable, but nonlinear effects start to show up at leading order in the form of a slowly varying nonlinear phase modulation. In addition, we prove that in the same regime a class of nonlinear bound states also stays adiabatica…
We study the Cauchy problem for a system of two coupled nonlinear focusing Schroedinger equations arising in nonlinear optics. We discuss when the solutions are global in time or blow-up in finite time. Some results, in dependence of the data of the problem, are proved; in particular we give a bound, depending on the coupling parameter, for the blow-up threshold.
We describe and rigorously justify the nonlinear interaction of highly oscillatory waves in nonlinear Schrodinger equations, posed on Euclidean space or on the torus. Our scaling corresponds to a weakly nonlinear regime where the nonlinearity affects the leading order amplitude of the solution, but does not alter the rapid oscillations. We consider initial states which are superpositions of slowly modulated plane waves, and use the framework of Wiener algebras. A detailed analysis of the corresponding nonlinear wave mixing phenomena is given, including a geometric interpretation on the resonan…
The Born-Infeld (BI) model is a nonlinear correction of Maxwell's equations. By adding the energy and Poynting vector as additional variables, it can be augmented as a 10$\times$10 system of hyperbolic conservation laws, called the augmented BI (ABI) equations. The author found that, through a quadratic change of the time variable, the ABI system gives a simple energy dissipation model that combines Darcy's law and magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). Using the concept of "relative entropy" (or "modulated energy"), borrowed from the theory of hyperbolic systems of conservation laws, we introduce a noti…
In this paper, we use various anstazes motivated from our earlier works on transonic gas flows, boundary layer problems and Navier-Stokes equations to find new explicit exact solutions with multiple parameter functions for the equation of geopotential forecast and the equations of nonlinear magnetohydrodynamics.
Weakly nonlinear dynamics in anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetimes is reviewed, keeping an eye on the AdS instability conjecture and focusing on the resonant approximation that accurately captures in a simplified form the long-term evolution of small initial data. Topics covered include turbulent and regular motion, dynamical recurrences analogous to the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam phenomena in oscillator chains, and relations between AdS dynamics and nonrelativistic nonlinear Schrodinger equations in harmonic potentials. Special mention is given to the way the classical dynamics of weakly nonlinear strongly r…
