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Extending to systems of hyperbolic–parabolic conservation laws results of Howard and Zumbrun for ... more Extending to systems of hyperbolic–parabolic conservation laws results of Howard and Zumbrun for strictly parabolic systems, we show for viscous shock profiles of arbitrary amplitude and type that necessary spectral (Evans function) conditions for linearized stability established by Mascia and Zumbrun are also sufficient for linearized and nonlinear phase-asymptotic stability, yielding detailed pointwise estimates and sharp rates of convergence in L p, 1 ≤ p ≤ ∞. 1

For the solutions of Navier-Stokes-Boussinesq equations in a threedimensional thin tube with fron... more For the solutions of Navier-Stokes-Boussinesq equations in a threedimensional thin tube with front like initial data, we derive some uniform estimates on the burning rate and the flow velocity, which can be interpreted as stability results for the laminar front. We also show that the front-like datum admits a solution which will stay frontlike in time. We consider no-slip (Dirichlet) boundary condition for the flow, and no-flux (Neumann) boundary condition for the reactant(temperature).

Refining previous work of Zumbrun, Mascia-Zumbrun, Raoofi, Howard-Zumbrun and Howard-Raoofi, we d... more Refining previous work of Zumbrun, Mascia-Zumbrun, Raoofi, Howard-Zumbrun and Howard-Raoofi, we derive sharp pointwise bounds on behavior of perturbed viscous shock profiles for large-amplitude Lax or overcompressive type shocks and physical viscosity. These extend well-known results of Liu obtained by somewhat different techniques for small-amplitude Lax type shocks and artificial viscosity, completing a program initiated by Zumbrun and Howard. As pointed out by Liu, the key to obtaining sharp bounds is to take account of cancellation associated with the property that the solution decays faster along characteristic than in other directions. Thus, we must here estimate characteristic derivatives for the entire nonlinear perturbation, rather than judicially chosen parts as in the work of Raoofi and Howard-Raoofi, a requirement that greatly complicates the analysis.

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We consider the asymptotic behavior of perturbations of Lax and overcompressive type viscous shoc... more We consider the asymptotic behavior of perturbations of Lax and overcompressive type viscous shock profiles arising in systems of regularized conservation laws with strictly parabolic viscosity, and also in systems of conservation laws with partially parabolic regularizations such as arise in the case of the compressible Navier-Stokes equations and in the equations of magnetohydrodynamics. Under the necessary

It is well known that every (real or complex) normed linear space L is isometrically embeddable i... more It is well known that every (real or complex) normed linear space L is isometrically embeddable into C(X) for some compact Hausdorff space X. Here X is the closed unit ball of L * (the set of all continuous scalar-valued linear mappings on L) endowed with the weak * topology, which is compact by the Banach-Alaoglu theorem. We prove that the compact Hausdorff space X can indeed be chosen to be the Stone-Čech compactification of L * \ {0}, where L * \ {0} is endowed with the supremum norm topology.

Laser Physics, 2015

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Journal of Hyperbolic Differential Equations, 2006

Refining previous work of Zumbrun, Mascia–Zumbrun, Raoofi, Howard–Zumbrun and Howard–Raoofi, we d... more Refining previous work of Zumbrun, Mascia–Zumbrun, Raoofi, Howard–Zumbrun and Howard–Raoofi, we derive sharp pointwise bounds on behavior of perturbed viscous shock profiles for large-amplitude Lax or overcompressive type shocks and physical viscosity. These extend well-known results of Liu obtained by somewhat different techniques for small-amplitude Lax type shocks and artificial viscosity, completing a program initiated by Zumbrun and Howard. As pointed out by Liu, the key to obtaining sharp bounds is to take account of cancellation associated with the property that the solution decays faster along characteristic than in other directions. Thus, we must here estimate characteristic derivatives for the entire nonlinear perturbation, rather than judicially chosen parts as in the work of Raoofi and Howard–Raoofi, a requirement that greatly complicates the analysis.

Journal of Hyperbolic Differential Equations, 2005

We investigate the Lp asymptotic behavior (1 ≤ p ≤ ∞) of a perturbation of a Lax or overcompressi... more We investigate the Lp asymptotic behavior (1 ≤ p ≤ ∞) of a perturbation of a Lax or overcompressive type shock wave solution to a system of conservation law in one dimension. The system of the equations can be strictly parabolic, or partially parabolic (real viscosity case, e.g. compressible Navier–Stokes equations or equations of Magnetohydrodynamics). We use known pointwise Green function bounds for the linearized equation around the shock to show that the perturbation of such a solution can be decomposed into a part corresponding to shift in shock position or shape, a part which is the sum of diffusion waves, i.e. the solutions to a viscous Burger's equation, conserving the initial mass and convecting away from the shock profile in outgoing modes, and another part which is more rapidly decaying in any Lp norm.

Journal of Differential Equations, 2009

Extending to systems of hyperbolic-parabolic conservation laws results of Howard and Zumbrun for ... more Extending to systems of hyperbolic-parabolic conservation laws results of Howard and Zumbrun for strictly parabolic systems, we show for viscous shock profiles of arbitrary amplitude and type that necessary spectral (Evans function) conditions for linearized stability established by Mascia and Zumbrun are also sufficient for linearized and nonlinear phase-asymptotic stability, yielding detailed pointwise estimates and sharp rates of convergence in L p , 1 ≤ p ≤ ∞.

Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis, 2013

We consider the Stokes-Boussinesq (and the stationary Navier-Stokes-Boussinesq) equations in a sl... more We consider the Stokes-Boussinesq (and the stationary Navier-Stokes-Boussinesq) equations in a slanted, i.e. not aligned with the gravity's direction, 3d channel and with an arbitrary Rayleigh number. For the front-like initial data and under the no-slip boundary condition for the flow and no-flux boundary condition for the reactant temperature, we derive uniform estimates on the burning rate and the flow velocity, which can be interpreted as stability results for the laminar front.

Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2007

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International Journal of Numerical Modelling: Electronic Networks, Devices and Fields, 2015

In this paper, we develop some mesh‐free particle methods for magneto‐hydrodynamics equations. Ou... more In this paper, we develop some mesh‐free particle methods for magneto‐hydrodynamics equations. Our focus is on the problems with high Hartmann numbers, which generate unstable solutions in most numerical methods. Several numerical tests validate the efficiency of our methods. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Generalizing similar results for viscous shock and relaxation waves, we establish sharp pointwise... more Generalizing similar results for viscous shock and relaxation waves, we establish sharp pointwise Green function bounds and linearized and nonlinear stability for traveling wave solutions of an abstract viscous combustion model including both Majda's model and the full reacting compressible Navier-Stokes equations with artificial viscosity with general multi-species reaction and reaction-dependent equation of state, under the necessary conditions of strong spectral stability, i.e., stable point spectrum of the linearized operator about the wave, transversality of the profile as a connection in the traveling-wave ODE, and hyperbolic stability of the associated Chapman-Jouguet (square-wave) approximation. Notably, our results apply to combustion waves of any type: weak or strong, detonations or deflagrations, reducing the study of stability to verification of a readily numerically checkable Evans function condition. Together with spectral results of Lyng and Zumbrun, this gives immediately stability of small-amplitude strong detonations in the small heat-release (i.e., fluid-dynamical) limit, simplifying and greatly extending previous results obtained by energy methods by Liu-Ying and Tesei-Tan for Majda's model and the reactive Navier-Stokes equations, respectively. special class of hyperbolic-parabolic balance laws, or reaction-diffusion-convection equations, RDC (1.1) U t + F(U) = 0, F(U) = F (U) x − (B(U)U x) x − G(U), having the damping property damping (1.2) σ(dG) ≤ 0, where (here and elsewhere) σ(M) denotes spectrum of a matrix or linear operator M. For viscous shocks, G ≡ 0, while for relaxation shocks, dG has constant rank, its kernel corresponding to a local equilibrium manifold. By contrast, combustion equations have the composite structure G(U) = φ(U)G(U), where φ is a scalar "ignition function" that turns the reaction on or off-specifically, it is zero on some subset of the state space and positive elsewhere-andG is a relaxation type term with constant rank and σ(dG) ≤ 0: that is, an interpolation between the viscous and relaxation case. Thus, traveling combustion waves exhibit features of both viscous and relaxation shocks, in various different regimes, and our analysis must take this into account. Specifically, we study a subclass of (RDC 1.1), comprising systems of the form, model (1.3) u t + f (u, z) x = bu xx + qkφ(u)z, z t = dz xx − kφ(u)z, where u ∈ R n and z ∈ R r , and φ is a "bump"-type ignition function. The physical constant q is the heat release parameter. Here, q > 0 corresponds to an exothermic reaction. When n = 1 and r = 1, (model 1.3) is Majda's single-reaction combustion model. Then, u is a lumped variable combining various aspects of specific volume, particle velocity, and temperature, while z ∈ [0, 1] is the mass fraction of reactant. The positive constant k represents the rate of the reaction. In Majda's model, the diffusion coefficients b and d are also assumed to be positive constants. In the following, we scale the variables so that B 0 ≡ 1. The vectorial version of (model 1.3), with u ∈ R n , z ∈ R r , and b and d positive definite matrices, is sufficient to encompass the artificial viscosity version of the full reactive compressible Navier-Stokes equations written in Lagrangian coordinates, with multi-species reaction and reaction-dependent equation of state, where u = (τ, v, E), with τ , v, and E denoting specific volume, velocity, and energy density, φ = φ(T), z 1 ,. .. , z r denoting mass fractions of reactant species, and k matrix-valued with eigenvalues of strictly negative real part ZKochel, LyZ2 [Z1, LyZ2]. Throughout the paper, we shall carry out in parallel the analysis of the scalar and the (artificial viscosity) system case, exposing the main ideas in the simpler setting of Majda's model, then indicating by a series of brief remarks the extension to the general case. Physical (as opposed to artifical) diffusion terms are of form (b(u, z)u x) x and (d(u, z)z x) x with b, d matrix-valued and b semi-definite LyZ1, LyZ2 [LyZ1, LyZ2]. The diffusion coefficient b is commonly assumed to depend on u alone; however, like the equation of state, it properly depends on the make-up of the gas, hence on the mass fraction z of the reactant. See comments in section comments 1.3, about the extension of the results of this paper to such systems. that is, strong spectral stability (first condition in (E-condition 1.7)), plus transversality, plus Lopatinksi stability of the associated square-wave (Chapman-Jouguet) approximation. Note that (gdrel 1.6) holds in the much more general multidimensional case as well ZKochel, JLW [Z1, JLW]. gallop Remark 1.3. It is shown in JLW [JLW] that, under "standard" assumptions of a reactionindepenent, ideal gas equation of state, strong detonations are always Chapman-Jouguet stable. Together with (gdrel 1.6), this has the interesting consequence that transition from viscous stability to instability as parameters are varied must occur either by breakdown of transversality in the traveling-wave connection, or else by crossing of the imaginary axis of one or more nonzero complex conjugate eigenvalue pairs, i.e., a Poincaré-Hopf type bifurcation. This agrees with physically observed "galloping" or "pulsating" instabilities; see LyZ2, TZ1, TZ2 [LyZ2, TZ1, TZ2] for further discussion. orbital Definition 1.4. Let X and Y be two Banach spaces. A traveling wave solutionŪ of (RDC 1.1) is said to be X → Y nonlinearly orbitally stable if, for any solutionŨ of (RDC 1.1) with initial data sufficiently close in X toŪ , there exists a phase shift δ, such thatŨ (•, t) approaches U (• − δ(t)), in Y and as t → ∞. If, also, the phase δ(t) converges to a limiting value δ(+∞), the profile is said to be nonlinearly phase-asymptotically orbitally stable. Using the information given by Theorem

Extending to systems of hyperbolic–parabolic conservation laws results of Howard and Zumbrun for ... more Extending to systems of hyperbolic–parabolic conservation laws results of Howard and Zumbrun for strictly parabolic systems, we show for viscous shock profiles of arbitrary amplitude and type that necessary spectral (Evans function) conditions for linearized stability established by Mascia and Zumbrun are also sufficient for linearized and nonlinear phase-asymptotic stability, yielding detailed pointwise estimates and sharp rates of convergence in L p, 1 ≤ p ≤ ∞. 1

For the solutions of Navier-Stokes-Boussinesq equations in a threedimensional thin tube with fron... more For the solutions of Navier-Stokes-Boussinesq equations in a threedimensional thin tube with front like initial data, we derive some uniform estimates on the burning rate and the flow velocity, which can be interpreted as stability results for the laminar front. We also show that the front-like datum admits a solution which will stay frontlike in time. We consider no-slip (Dirichlet) boundary condition for the flow, and no-flux (Neumann) boundary condition for the reactant(temperature).

Refining previous work of Zumbrun, Mascia-Zumbrun, Raoofi, Howard-Zumbrun and Howard-Raoofi, we d... more Refining previous work of Zumbrun, Mascia-Zumbrun, Raoofi, Howard-Zumbrun and Howard-Raoofi, we derive sharp pointwise bounds on behavior of perturbed viscous shock profiles for large-amplitude Lax or overcompressive type shocks and physical viscosity. These extend well-known results of Liu obtained by somewhat different techniques for small-amplitude Lax type shocks and artificial viscosity, completing a program initiated by Zumbrun and Howard. As pointed out by Liu, the key to obtaining sharp bounds is to take account of cancellation associated with the property that the solution decays faster along characteristic than in other directions. Thus, we must here estimate characteristic derivatives for the entire nonlinear perturbation, rather than judicially chosen parts as in the work of Raoofi and Howard-Raoofi, a requirement that greatly complicates the analysis.

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We consider the asymptotic behavior of perturbations of Lax and overcompressive type viscous shoc... more We consider the asymptotic behavior of perturbations of Lax and overcompressive type viscous shock profiles arising in systems of regularized conservation laws with strictly parabolic viscosity, and also in systems of conservation laws with partially parabolic regularizations such as arise in the case of the compressible Navier-Stokes equations and in the equations of magnetohydrodynamics. Under the necessary

It is well known that every (real or complex) normed linear space L is isometrically embeddable i... more It is well known that every (real or complex) normed linear space L is isometrically embeddable into C(X) for some compact Hausdorff space X. Here X is the closed unit ball of L * (the set of all continuous scalar-valued linear mappings on L) endowed with the weak * topology, which is compact by the Banach-Alaoglu theorem. We prove that the compact Hausdorff space X can indeed be chosen to be the Stone-Čech compactification of L * \ {0}, where L * \ {0} is endowed with the supremum norm topology.

Laser Physics, 2015

ABSTRACT

Journal of Hyperbolic Differential Equations, 2006

Refining previous work of Zumbrun, Mascia–Zumbrun, Raoofi, Howard–Zumbrun and Howard–Raoofi, we d... more Refining previous work of Zumbrun, Mascia–Zumbrun, Raoofi, Howard–Zumbrun and Howard–Raoofi, we derive sharp pointwise bounds on behavior of perturbed viscous shock profiles for large-amplitude Lax or overcompressive type shocks and physical viscosity. These extend well-known results of Liu obtained by somewhat different techniques for small-amplitude Lax type shocks and artificial viscosity, completing a program initiated by Zumbrun and Howard. As pointed out by Liu, the key to obtaining sharp bounds is to take account of cancellation associated with the property that the solution decays faster along characteristic than in other directions. Thus, we must here estimate characteristic derivatives for the entire nonlinear perturbation, rather than judicially chosen parts as in the work of Raoofi and Howard–Raoofi, a requirement that greatly complicates the analysis.

Journal of Hyperbolic Differential Equations, 2005

We investigate the Lp asymptotic behavior (1 ≤ p ≤ ∞) of a perturbation of a Lax or overcompressi... more We investigate the Lp asymptotic behavior (1 ≤ p ≤ ∞) of a perturbation of a Lax or overcompressive type shock wave solution to a system of conservation law in one dimension. The system of the equations can be strictly parabolic, or partially parabolic (real viscosity case, e.g. compressible Navier–Stokes equations or equations of Magnetohydrodynamics). We use known pointwise Green function bounds for the linearized equation around the shock to show that the perturbation of such a solution can be decomposed into a part corresponding to shift in shock position or shape, a part which is the sum of diffusion waves, i.e. the solutions to a viscous Burger's equation, conserving the initial mass and convecting away from the shock profile in outgoing modes, and another part which is more rapidly decaying in any Lp norm.

Journal of Differential Equations, 2009

Extending to systems of hyperbolic-parabolic conservation laws results of Howard and Zumbrun for ... more Extending to systems of hyperbolic-parabolic conservation laws results of Howard and Zumbrun for strictly parabolic systems, we show for viscous shock profiles of arbitrary amplitude and type that necessary spectral (Evans function) conditions for linearized stability established by Mascia and Zumbrun are also sufficient for linearized and nonlinear phase-asymptotic stability, yielding detailed pointwise estimates and sharp rates of convergence in L p , 1 ≤ p ≤ ∞.

Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis, 2013

We consider the Stokes-Boussinesq (and the stationary Navier-Stokes-Boussinesq) equations in a sl... more We consider the Stokes-Boussinesq (and the stationary Navier-Stokes-Boussinesq) equations in a slanted, i.e. not aligned with the gravity's direction, 3d channel and with an arbitrary Rayleigh number. For the front-like initial data and under the no-slip boundary condition for the flow and no-flux boundary condition for the reactant temperature, we derive uniform estimates on the burning rate and the flow velocity, which can be interpreted as stability results for the laminar front.

Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2007

ABSTRACT

International Journal of Numerical Modelling: Electronic Networks, Devices and Fields, 2015

In this paper, we develop some mesh‐free particle methods for magneto‐hydrodynamics equations. Ou... more In this paper, we develop some mesh‐free particle methods for magneto‐hydrodynamics equations. Our focus is on the problems with high Hartmann numbers, which generate unstable solutions in most numerical methods. Several numerical tests validate the efficiency of our methods. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Generalizing similar results for viscous shock and relaxation waves, we establish sharp pointwise... more Generalizing similar results for viscous shock and relaxation waves, we establish sharp pointwise Green function bounds and linearized and nonlinear stability for traveling wave solutions of an abstract viscous combustion model including both Majda's model and the full reacting compressible Navier-Stokes equations with artificial viscosity with general multi-species reaction and reaction-dependent equation of state, under the necessary conditions of strong spectral stability, i.e., stable point spectrum of the linearized operator about the wave, transversality of the profile as a connection in the traveling-wave ODE, and hyperbolic stability of the associated Chapman-Jouguet (square-wave) approximation. Notably, our results apply to combustion waves of any type: weak or strong, detonations or deflagrations, reducing the study of stability to verification of a readily numerically checkable Evans function condition. Together with spectral results of Lyng and Zumbrun, this gives immediately stability of small-amplitude strong detonations in the small heat-release (i.e., fluid-dynamical) limit, simplifying and greatly extending previous results obtained by energy methods by Liu-Ying and Tesei-Tan for Majda's model and the reactive Navier-Stokes equations, respectively. special class of hyperbolic-parabolic balance laws, or reaction-diffusion-convection equations, RDC (1.1) U t + F(U) = 0, F(U) = F (U) x − (B(U)U x) x − G(U), having the damping property damping (1.2) σ(dG) ≤ 0, where (here and elsewhere) σ(M) denotes spectrum of a matrix or linear operator M. For viscous shocks, G ≡ 0, while for relaxation shocks, dG has constant rank, its kernel corresponding to a local equilibrium manifold. By contrast, combustion equations have the composite structure G(U) = φ(U)G(U), where φ is a scalar "ignition function" that turns the reaction on or off-specifically, it is zero on some subset of the state space and positive elsewhere-andG is a relaxation type term with constant rank and σ(dG) ≤ 0: that is, an interpolation between the viscous and relaxation case. Thus, traveling combustion waves exhibit features of both viscous and relaxation shocks, in various different regimes, and our analysis must take this into account. Specifically, we study a subclass of (RDC 1.1), comprising systems of the form, model (1.3) u t + f (u, z) x = bu xx + qkφ(u)z, z t = dz xx − kφ(u)z, where u ∈ R n and z ∈ R r , and φ is a "bump"-type ignition function. The physical constant q is the heat release parameter. Here, q > 0 corresponds to an exothermic reaction. When n = 1 and r = 1, (model 1.3) is Majda's single-reaction combustion model. Then, u is a lumped variable combining various aspects of specific volume, particle velocity, and temperature, while z ∈ [0, 1] is the mass fraction of reactant. The positive constant k represents the rate of the reaction. In Majda's model, the diffusion coefficients b and d are also assumed to be positive constants. In the following, we scale the variables so that B 0 ≡ 1. The vectorial version of (model 1.3), with u ∈ R n , z ∈ R r , and b and d positive definite matrices, is sufficient to encompass the artificial viscosity version of the full reactive compressible Navier-Stokes equations written in Lagrangian coordinates, with multi-species reaction and reaction-dependent equation of state, where u = (τ, v, E), with τ , v, and E denoting specific volume, velocity, and energy density, φ = φ(T), z 1 ,. .. , z r denoting mass fractions of reactant species, and k matrix-valued with eigenvalues of strictly negative real part ZKochel, LyZ2 [Z1, LyZ2]. Throughout the paper, we shall carry out in parallel the analysis of the scalar and the (artificial viscosity) system case, exposing the main ideas in the simpler setting of Majda's model, then indicating by a series of brief remarks the extension to the general case. Physical (as opposed to artifical) diffusion terms are of form (b(u, z)u x) x and (d(u, z)z x) x with b, d matrix-valued and b semi-definite LyZ1, LyZ2 [LyZ1, LyZ2]. The diffusion coefficient b is commonly assumed to depend on u alone; however, like the equation of state, it properly depends on the make-up of the gas, hence on the mass fraction z of the reactant. See comments in section comments 1.3, about the extension of the results of this paper to such systems. that is, strong spectral stability (first condition in (E-condition 1.7)), plus transversality, plus Lopatinksi stability of the associated square-wave (Chapman-Jouguet) approximation. Note that (gdrel 1.6) holds in the much more general multidimensional case as well ZKochel, JLW [Z1, JLW]. gallop Remark 1.3. It is shown in JLW [JLW] that, under "standard" assumptions of a reactionindepenent, ideal gas equation of state, strong detonations are always Chapman-Jouguet stable. Together with (gdrel 1.6), this has the interesting consequence that transition from viscous stability to instability as parameters are varied must occur either by breakdown of transversality in the traveling-wave connection, or else by crossing of the imaginary axis of one or more nonzero complex conjugate eigenvalue pairs, i.e., a Poincaré-Hopf type bifurcation. This agrees with physically observed "galloping" or "pulsating" instabilities; see LyZ2, TZ1, TZ2 [LyZ2, TZ1, TZ2] for further discussion. orbital Definition 1.4. Let X and Y be two Banach spaces. A traveling wave solutionŪ of (RDC 1.1) is said to be X → Y nonlinearly orbitally stable if, for any solutionŨ of (RDC 1.1) with initial data sufficiently close in X toŪ , there exists a phase shift δ, such thatŨ (•, t) approaches U (• − δ(t)), in Y and as t → ∞. If, also, the phase δ(t) converges to a limiting value δ(+∞), the profile is said to be nonlinearly phase-asymptotically orbitally stable. Using the information given by Theorem