We consider a family of contour dynamics equations depending on a parameter $\al$ with $0<α\leq 1$. The vortex patch problem of the 2-D Euler equation is obtained taking $α\to 0$, and the case $α=1$ corresponds to a sharp front of the QG equation. We prove local-in-time existence for the family of equations in Sobolev spaces.
Guided by numerical simulations, we present the proof of two results concerning the behaviour of SQG sharp fronts and $α$-patches. We establish that ellipses are not rotational solutions and we prove that initially convex interfaces may lose this property in finite time.
This paper is devoted to the study of spatial propagation dynamics of species in locally spatially inhomogeneous patchy environments or media. For a lattice differential equation with monostable nonlinearity in a discrete homogeneous media, it is well-known that there exists a minimal wave speed such that a traveling front exists if and only if the wave speed is not slower than this minimal wave speed. We shall show that strongly localized spatial inhomogeneous patchy environments may prevent the existence of transition fronts (generalized traveling fronts). Transition fronts may exist in weak…
Patch solutions for the surface quasigeostrophic (SQG) equation model sharp temperature fronts in atmospheric and oceanic flows. We establish local well-posedness for SQG sharp fronts of low Sobolev regularity, $H^{2+s}$ for arbitrarily small $s>0$, allowing for fronts with unbounded curvature.
This paper is about the evolution of a temperature front governed by the Surface quasi-geostrophic equation. The existence part of that program within the scale of Sobolev spaces was obtained by one of the authors [10]. Here we revisit that proof introducing some new tools and points of view which allow us to conclude the also needed uniqueness result.
We prove local well-posedness in the Sobolev spaces $\dot H^s(\mathbb{T})$, with $s>7/2$, for an initial value problem for a nonlocal, cubically nonlinear, dispersive equation that provides an approximate description of the evolution of surface quasi-geostrophic (SQG) fronts with small slopes.
This paper considers the temperature patch problem for the incompressible Boussinesq system with no diffusion and viscosity in the whole space $\mathbb{R}^2$. We prove that for initial patches with $W^{2,\infty}$ boundary the curvature remains bounded for all time. The proof explores new cancellations that allow us to bound $\nabla^2u$, even for those components given by time dependent singular integrals with kernels with nonzero mean on circles. In addition, we give a different proof of the $C^{1+γ}$ regularity result in [23], $0<γ<1$, using the scale of Sobolev spaces for the velocity. Furth…
In this paper, we give characterizations of usual wave front set and Sobolev type wave front set in terms of wave packet transform without any restriction on basic wave packet.
We consider a one-dimensional nonlocal nonlinear equation of the form: $\partial_t u = (Λ^{-α} u)\partial_x u - νΛ^βu$ where $Λ=(-\partial_{xx})^{\frac 12}$ is the fractional Laplacian and $ν\ge 0$ is the viscosity coefficient. We consider primarily the regime $0<α<1$ and $0\le β\le 2$ for which the model has nonlocal drift, fractional dissipation, and captures essential features of the 2D $α$-patch models. In the critical and subcritical range $1-α\le β\le 2$, we prove global wellposedness for arbitrarily large initial data in Sobolev spaces. In the full supercritical range $0 \le β<1-α$, we …
In this paper we address the temperature patch problem of the 2D viscous Boussinesq system without heat diffusion term. The temperature satisfies the transport equation and the initial data of temperature is given in the form of non-constant patch, usually called the temperature front initial data. Introducing a good unknown and applying the method of striated estimates, we prove that our partially viscous Boussinesq system admits a unique global regular solution and the initial $C^{k,γ}$ and $W^{2,\infty}$ regularity of the temperature front boundary with $k\in \mathbb{Z}^+ = \{1,2,\cdots\}$ …
We study the temperature front problem for the 3D viscous Boussinesq equation. We prove that the $C^{k,γ}$ ($k\geq 1$, $0<γ< 1$) and $W^{2,\infty}$ regularity of a temperature front is locally preserved along the evolution as well as globally preserved under a smallness condition in a critical space. In particular, beside giving another proof of the main result in \cite{GGJ20}, we also extend it to a more general class of regular patch.
We study the propagation of singularities for semilinear Schrodinger equations with quadratic Hamiltonians, in particular for the semilinear harmonic oscillator. We show that the propagation still occurs along the flow the Hamiltonian flow, but for Sobolev regularities in a certain range and provided the notion of Sobolev-wave front set is conveniently modified. The proof makes use of a weighted version of the paradifferential calculus, adapted to our situation. The results can be regarded as the Schrodinger counterpart of those known for semilinear hyperbolic equations, which hold with the us…
We prove that the steady state of a class of multidimensional reaction-diffusion systems is asymptotically stable at the intersection of unweighted space and exponentially weighted Sobolev spaces, and pay particular attention to a special case, namely, systems of equations that arise in combustion theory. The steady-state solutions considered here are the end states of the traveling fronts associated with the systems, and thus the present results complement recent papers \cite{GLS1, GLS2, GLS3, GLSR, GLY} that study the stability of traveling fronts.
We illustrate the composition properties for an extended family of SG Fourier integral operators. We prove continuity results for operators in this class with respect to $L^2$ and weighted modulation spaces, and discuss continuity on $\mathscr{S}$, $\mathscr{S}^\prime$ and on weighted Sobolev spaces. We study mapping properties of global wave-front sets under the action of these Fourier integral operators. We extend classical results to more general situations. For example, there are no requirements of homogeneity for the phase functions. Finally, we apply our results to the study of of the pr…
In this paper, we consider the linearized Vlasov-Poisson equation around an homogeneous Maxwellian equilibrium in a weakly collisional regime: there is a parameter $\eps$ in front of the collision operator which will tend to $0$. Moreover, we study two cases of collision operators, linear Boltzmann and Fokker-Planck. We prove a result of Landau damping for those equations in Sobolev spaces uniformly with respect to the collision parameter $\eps$ as it goes to $0$.
In this paper, KdV-type equations with time- and space-dependent coefficients are considered. Assuming that the dispersion coefficient in front of $u_{xxx}$ is positive and uniformly bounded away from the origin and that a primitive function of the ratio between the anti-dissipation and the dispersion coefficients is bounded from below, we prove the existence and uniqueness of a solution $u$ such that $h u$ belongs to a classical Sobolev space, where $h$ is a function related to this ratio. The LWP in $H^s(\mathbb{R})$, $s>1/2$, in the classical (Hadamard) sense is also proven under an assumpt…
We study the cubic ab-family of equations, which includes both the Fokas-Olver-Rosenau-Qiao (FORQ) and the Novikov (NE) equations. For $a\neq0$, it is proved that there exist initial data in the Sobolev space $H^s$, $s<3/2$, with non-unique solutions. Multiple solutions are constructed by studying the collision of 2-peakon solutions. Furthermore, we prove the novel phenomenon that for some members of the family, collision between 2-peakons can occur even if the "faster" peakon is in front of the "slower" peakon.
We are concerned with supersonic vortex sheets for the Euler equations of compressible inviscid fluids in two space dimensions. For the problem with constant coefficients, in [10] the authors have derived a pseudo-differential equation which describes the time evolution of the discontinuity front of the vortex sheet. In agreement with the classical stability analysis, the problem is weakly stable if $|[v\cdotτ]|>2\sqrt{2}\,c$, and the well-posedness was obtained in standard weighted Sobolev spaces. The aim of the present paper is to improve the result of [10], by showing the existence of the s…
We are concerned with supersonic vortex sheets for the Euler equations of compressible inviscid fluids in two space dimensions. For the problem with constant coefficients we derive an evolution equation for the discontinuity front of the vortex sheet. This is a pseudo-differential equation of order two. In agreement with the classical stability analysis, if the jump of the tangential component of the velocity satisfies $|[v\cdotτ]|<2\sqrt{2}\,c$ (here $c$ denotes the sound speed) the symbol is elliptic and the problem is ill-posed. On the contrary, if $|[v\cdotτ]|>2\sqrt{2}\,c$, then the probl…
This paper deals with the stability of semi-wavefronts to the following delay non-local monostable equation: $\dot{v}(t,x) = Δv(t,x) - v(t,x) + \int_{\R^d}K(y)g(v(t-h,x-y))dy, x \in \R^d,\ t >0;$ where $h>0$ and $d\in\Z_+$. We give two general results for $d\geq1$: on the global stability of semi-wavefronts in $L^p$-spaces with unbounded weights and the local stability of planar wavefronts in $L^p$-spaces with bounded weights. We also give a global stability result for $d=1$ which includes the global stability on Sobolev spaces. Here $g$ is not assumed to be monotone and the kernel $K$ is not …