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Alexis F. Vasseur

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arXiv2018

On Uniqueness of Solutions to Conservation Laws Verifying a Single Entropy Condition

For hyperbolic systems of conservation laws, uniqueness of solutions is still largely open. We aim to expand the theory of uniqueness for systems of conservation laws. One difficulty is that many systems have only one entropy. This contrasts with scalar conservation laws, where many entropies exist. It took until 1994 to show that one entropy is enough to ensure uniqueness of solutions for the scalar conservation laws (see Panov [Mat. Zametki, 55(5):116--129, 159, 1994]). This single entropy result was proven again by De Lellis, Otto and Westdickenberg about 10 years later [Quart. Appl. Math., 62(4):687--700, 2004]. These two proofs both rely on the special connection between Hamilton--Jacobi equations and scalar conservation laws in one space dimension. However, this special connection does not extend to systems. In this paper, we prove the single entropy result for scalar conservation laws without using Hamilton--Jacobi. Our proof lays out new techniques that are promising for showing uniqueness of solutions in the systems case.

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arXiv2017

Global in Time Classical Solutions to the 3D Quasi-geostrophic System for Large Initial Data

In this paper, the authors show the existence of global in time classical solutions to the 3D quasi-geostrophic system with Ekman pumping for any smooth initial value (possibly large). This system couples an inviscid transport equation in $\mathbb{R}^3_+$ with an equation on the boundary satisfied by the trace. The proof combines the De Giorgi regularization effect on the boundary $z=0$ -similar to the so called surface quasi-geostrophic equation- with Beale-Kato-Majda techniques to propagate regularity for $z>0$. A potential theory argument is used to strengthen the regularization effect on the trace up to the Besov space $\mathring{B}_{\infty,\infty}^1$.

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arXiv2017

De Giorgi Techniques Applied to Hamilton-Jacobi Equations with Unbounded Right-Hand Side

In this article we obtain Holder estimates for solutions to second-order Hamilton-Jacobi equations with super-quadratic growth in the gradient and unbounded source term. The estimates are uniform with respect to the smallness of the diffusion and the smoothness of the Hamiltonian. Our work is in the spirit of a result by P. Cardaliaguet and L. Silvestre [5]. We utilize De Giorgi's method, which was introduced to this class of equations in [6].

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arXiv2015

$L^2$-contraction for shock waves of scalar viscous conservation laws

We consider the $L^2$-contraction up to a shift for viscous shocks of scalar viscous conservation laws with strictly convex fluxes in one space dimension. In the case of a flux which is a small perturbation of the quadratic burgers flux, we show that any viscous shock induces a contraction in $L^2$, up to a shift. That is, the $L^2$ norm of the difference of any solution of the viscous conservation law, with an appropriate shift of the shock wave, does not increase in time. If, in addition, the difference between the initial value of the solution and the shock wave is also bounded in $L^1$, the $L^2$ norm of the difference converges at the optimal rate $t^{-1/4}$. Both results do not involve any smallness condition on the initial value, nor on the size of the shock. In this context of small perturbations of the quadratic Burgers flux, the result improves the Choi and Vasseur's result in [7]. However, we show that the $L^2$-contraction up to a shift does not hold for every convex flux. We construct a smooth strictly convex flux, for which the $L^2$-contraction does not hold any more even along any Lipschitz shift.

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arXiv2015

Global weak solutions to compressible quantum Navier-Stokes equations with damping

The global-in-time existence of weak solutions to the barotropic compressible quantum Navier-Stokes equations with damping is proved for large data in three dimensional space. The model consists of the compressible Navier-Stokes equations with degenerate viscosity, and a nonlinear third-order differential operator, with the quantum Bohm potential, and the damping terms. The global weak solutions to such system is shown by using the Faedo-Galerkin method and the compactness argument. This system is also a very important approximated system to the compressible Navier-Stokes equations. It will help us to prove the existence of global weak solutions to the compressible Navier-Stokes equations with degenerate viscosity in three dimensional space.

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arXiv2015

Existence of Global Weak Solutions for 3D Degenerate Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations

In this paper, we prove the existence of global weak solutions for 3D compressible Navier-Stokes equations with degenerate viscosity. The method is based on the Bresch and Desjardins entropy conservation. The main contribution of this paper is to derive the Mellet-Vasseur type inequality for the weak solutions, even if it is not verified by the first level of approximation. This provides existence of global solutions in time, for the compressible Navier-Stokes equations, for any $γ>1$, in three dimensional space, with large initial data possibly vanishing on the vacuum. This solves an open problem proposed by Lions.

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arXiv2015

Criteria on contractions for entropic discontinuities of systems of conservation laws

We study the contraction properties (up to shift) for admissible Rankine-Hugoniot discontinuities of $n\times n$ systems of conservation laws endowed with a convex entropy. We first generalize the criterion developed in [47], using the spatially inhomogeneous pseudo-distance introduced in [50]. Our generalized criterion guarantees the contraction property for extremal shocks of a large class of systems, including the Euler system. Moreover, we introduce necessary conditions for contraction, specifically targeted for intermediate shocks. As an application, we show that intermediate shocks of the two-dimensional isentropic magnetohydrodynamics do not verify any of our contraction properties. We also investigate the contraction properties, for contact discontinuities of the Euler system, for a certain range of contraction weights. All results do not involve any smallness condition on the initial perturbation, nor on the size of the shock.

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arXiv2015

Short-time stability of scalar viscous shocks in the inviscid limit by the relative entropy method

We consider inviscid limits to shocks for viscous scalar conservation laws in one space dimension, with strict convex fluxes. We show that we can obtain sharp estimates in $L^2$, for a class of large perturbations and for any bounded time interval. Those perturbations can be chosen big enough to destroy the viscous layer. This shows that the fast convergence to the shock does not depend on the fine structure of the viscous layers. This is the first application of the relative entropy method developed in [22], [23] to the study of an inviscid limit to a shock.

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arXiv2014

Global weak solutions to the inviscid 3D Quasi-Geostrophic equation

In this article, the authors prove the existence of global weak solutions to the inviscid three-dimensional quasi-geostrophic equation. This equation models the evolution of the temperature on the surface of the earth. It is widely used in geophysics and meteorology.

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arXiv2014

Asymptotic analysis of Vlasov-type equations under strong local alignment regime

We consider the hydrodynamic limit of a collisionless and non-diffusive kinetic equation under strong local alignment regime. The local alignment is first considered by Karper, Mellet and Trivisa in [24], as a singular limit of an alignment force proposed by Motsch and Tadmor in [32]. As the local alignment strongly dominate, a weak solution to the kinetic equation under consideration converges to the local equilibrium, which has the form of mono-kinetic distribution. We use the relative entropy method and weak compactness to rigorously justify the weak convergence of our kinetic equation to the pressureless Euler system.

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arXiv2011

Estimates on fractional higher derivatives of weak solutions for the Navier-Stokes equations

We study weak solutions of the 3D Navier-Stokes equations in whole space with $L^2$ initial data. It will be proved that $\nabla^αu $ is locally integrable in space-time for any real $α$ such that $1< α<3$, which says that almost third derivative is locally integrable. Up to now, only second derivative $\nabla^2 u$ has been known to be locally integrable by standard parabolic regularization. We also present sharp estimates of those quantities in weak-$L_{loc}^{4/(α+1)}$. These estimates depend only on the $L^2$ norm of initial data and integrating domains. Moreover, they are valid even for $α\geq 3$ as long as $u$ is smooth. The proof uses a good approximation of Navier-Stokes and a blow-up technique, which let us to focusing on a local study. For the local study, we use De Giorgi method with a new pressure decomposition. To handle non-locality of the fractional Laplacian, we will adopt some properties of the Hardy space and Maximal functions.

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arXiv2009

Rigorous derivation of the Kinetic/Fluid coupling involving a Kinetic layer on a toy problem

In this article, we investigate the kinetic/fluid coupling on a toy model. We obtain it rigorously from a hydrodynamical limit. The idea is that at the level of the full kinetic model, the coupling is obvious. We then investigate the coupling obtained when passing into the limit. We show that, especially in presence of a shock stuck on the interface, the coupling involves a kinetic layer known as the Milne problem. Due to this layer, the limit process is quite delicate and some blow-up techniques are needed to ensure its strong convergence.

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arXiv2005

On the isentropic compressible Navier-Stokes equation

We consider the compressible Navier-Stokes equation with density dependent viscosity coefficients, focusing on the case where those coefficients vanish on vacuum. We prove the stability of weak solutions both in the torus and in the whole space in dimension 2 and 3. The pressure is given by p=rho^gamma, and our result holds for any gamma>1. In particular, we obtain the stability of weak solutions of the Saint-Venant model for shallow water.

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