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Alexis Vasseur

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arXiv2018

The Inviscid 3D Quasi-Geostrophic System on Bounded Domains

We present a formal derivation of the inviscid 3D quasi-geostrophic system (QG) from primitive equations on a bounded, cylindrical domain. A key point in the derivation is the treatment of the lateral boundary and the resulting boundary conditions it imposes on solutions. To our knowledge, these boundary conditions are new and differentiate our model from closely related models which have been the object of recent study. These boundary conditions are natural for a variational problem in a particular Hilbert space. We construct solutions and prove an elliptic regularity theorem corresponding to the variational problem, allowing us to show the existence of global weak solutions to (QG).

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arXiv2017

Global weak solution to the viscous two-fluid model with finite energy

In this paper, we prove the existence of global weak solutions to the compressible two-fluid Navier-Stokes equations in three dimensional space. The pressure depends on two different variables from the continuity equations. We develop an argument of variable reduction for the pressure law. This yields to the strong convergence of the densities, and provides the existence of global solutions in time, for the compressible two-fluid Navier-Stokes equations, with large data in three dimensional space.

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arXiv2017

Solutions of the 4-species quadratic reaction-diffusion system are bounded and $C^\infty$, in any space dimension

We establish the boundedness of solutions of reaction-diffusion systems with quadratic (in fact slightly super-quadratic) reaction terms that satisfy a natural entropy dissipation property, in any space dimension N>2. This bound imply the smoothness of the solutions. This result extends the theory which was restricted to the two-dimensional case. The proof heavily uses De Giorgi's iteration scheme, which allows us to obtain local estimates. The arguments rely on duality reasonings in order to obtain new estimates on the total mass of the system, both in $L^{(N+1)/N}$ norm and in a suitable weak norm. The latter uses $C^α$ regularization properties for parabolic equations.

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arXiv2016

$L^2$-contraction of large planar shock waves for multi-dimensional scalar viscous conservation laws

We consider a $L^2$-contraction of large viscous shock waves for the multi-dimensional scalar viscous conservation laws, up to a suitable shift. The shift function depends on the time and space variables. It solves a parabolic equation with inhomogeneous coefficients reflecting the perturbation. We consider a suitably small $L^2$-perturbation around a viscous planar shock wave of arbitrarily large strength. However, we do not impose any condition on the anti-derivative variables of the perturbation around shock profile. More precisely, it is proved that if the initial perturbation around the viscous shock wave is suitably small in the $L^2$ norm, then the $L^2$-contraction holds true for the viscous shock wave up to a shift function which may depend on the temporal and spatial variables. Moreover, as the time $t$ tends to infinity, the $L^2$-contraction holds true up to a time-dependent shift function. In particular, if we choose some special initial perturbation, then we can prove a $L^2$ convergence of the solutions towards the associated shock profile up to a time-dependent shift.

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arXiv2016

Global weak solutions to the compressible quantum navier-stokes equation and its semi-classical limit

This paper is dedicated to the construction of global weak solutions to the quantum Navier-Stokes equation, for any initial value with bounded energy and entropy. The construction is uniform with respect to the Planck constant. This allows to perform the semi-classical limit to the associated compressible Navier-Stokes equation. One of the difficulty of the problem is to deal with the degenerate viscosity, together with the lack of integrability on the velocity. Our method is based on the construction of weak solutions that are renormalized in the velocity variable. The existence, and stability of these solutions do not need the Mellet-Vasseur inequality.

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arXiv2015

Porous Medium Flow with both a Fractional Potential Pressure and Fractional Time Derivative

We study a porous medium equation with right hand side. The operator has nonlocal diffusion effects given by an inverse fractional Laplacian operator. The derivative in time is also fractional of Caputo-type and which takes into account "memory''. The precise model is \[ D_t^α u - \text{div}(u(-Δ)^{-σ} u) = f, \quad 0<σ<1/2. \] We pose the problem over $\{t\in {\mathbb R}^+, x\in {\mathbb R}^n\}$ with nonnegative initial data $u(0,x)\geq 0 $ as well as right hand side $f\geq 0$. We first prove existence for weak solutions when $f,u(0,x)$ have exponential decay at infinity. Our main result is Hölder continuity for such weak solutions.

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arXiv2015

Hölder regularity for hypoelliptic kinetic equations with rough diffusion coefficients

This paper is dedicated to the application of the DeGiorgi-Nash-Moser regularity theory to the kinetic Fokker-Planck equation. This equation is hypoelliptic. It is parabolic only in the velocity variable, while the Liouville transport operator has a mixing effect in the position/velocity phase space. The mixing effect is incorporated in the classical DeGiorgi method via the averaging lemmas. The result can be seen as a Hölder regularity version of the classical averaging lemmas.

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arXiv2015

The inviscid limit to a contact discontinuity for the compressible Navier-Stokes-Fourier system using the relative entropy method

We consider the zero heat conductivity limit to a contact discontinuity for the mono-dimensional full compressible Navier-Stokes-Fourier system. The method is based on the relative entropy method, and do not assume any smallness conditions on the discontinuity, nor on the $BV$ norm of the initial data. It is proved that for any viscosity $ν\geq0$, the solution of the compressible Navier-Stokes-Fourier system (with well prepared initial value) converges, when the heat conductivity $κ$ tends to zero, to the contact discontinuity solution to the corresponding Euler system. We obtain the decay rate $κ^{\frac12}$. It implies that the heat conductivity dominates the dissipation in the regime of the limit to a contact discontinuity. This is the first result, based on the relative entropy, of an asymptotic limit to a discontinuous solutions for a system.

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arXiv2015

A Parabolic Problem with a Fractional-Time Derivative

We study regularity for a parabolic problem with fractional diffusion in space and a fractional time derivative. Our main result is a De Giorgi-Nash-Moser Holder regularity theorem for solutions in a divergence form equation. We also prove results regarding existence, uniqueness, and higher regularity in time.

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arXiv2014

Stability of the isentropic Riemann solutions of the full multidimensional Euler system

We consider the complete Euler system describing the time evolution of an inviscid non-isothermal gas. We show that the rarefaction wave solutions of the 1D Riemann problem are stable, in particular unique, in the class of all bounded weak solutions to the associated multi-D problem. This may be seen as a counterpart of the non-uniqueness results of physically admissible solutions emanating from 1D shock waves constructed recently by the method of convex integration.

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arXiv2014

A bound from below on the temperature for the Navier-Stokes-Fourier system

We give a uniform bound from below on the temperature for a variant of the compressible Navier-Stokes-Fourier system, under suitable hypotheses. This system of equations forms a mathematical model of the motion of a compressible fluid subject to heat conduction. Building upon the work of [16], we identify a class of weak solutions satisfying a localized form of the entropy inequality (adapted to measure the set where the temperature becomes small) and use a form of the De Giorgi argument for $L^\infty$ bounds of solutions to elliptic equations with bounded measurable coefficients.

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arXiv2013

Relative entropy and contraction for extremal shocks of Conservation Laws up to a shift

We consider systems of conservation laws endowed with a convex entropy. We show the contraction, up to a translation, to extremal entropic shocks, for a pseudo-distance based on the notion of relative entropy. The contraction holds for bounded entropic weak solutions having an additional trace property. The pseudo-distance depends only on the fixed extremal entropic shocks in play. In particular, it can be chosen uniformly for any entropic weak solutions which are compared to a fixed shock. The boundedness of the solutions controls the strength of the shift needed to get the contraction. However, no $BV$ estimate is needed on the weak solutions considered. The theory holds without smallness condition. For fluid mechanics, the theory handles solutions with vacuum.

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arXiv2010

Relative entropy and the stability of shocks and contact discontinuities for systems of conservation laws with non BV perturbations

We develop a theory based on relative entropy to show the uniqueness and L^2 stability (up to a translation) of extremal entropic Rankine-Hugoniot discontinuities for systems of conservation laws (typically 1-shocks, n-shocks, 1-contact discontinuities and n-contact discontinuities of large amplitude) among bounded entropic weak solutions having an additional trace property. The existence of a convex entropy is needed. No BV estimate is needed on the weak solutions considered. The theory holds without smallness condition. The assumptions are quite general. For instance, strict hyperbolicity is not needed globally. For fluid mechanics, the theory handles solutions with vacuum.

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arXiv2010

Regularity theory for nonlinear integral operators

This article is dedicated to the proof of the existence of classical solutions for a class of non-linear integral variational problems. Those problems are involved in nonlocal image and signal processing.

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arXiv2009

Global regularity of solutions to systems of reaction-diffusion with Sub-Quadratic Growth in any dimension

This paper is devoted to the study of the regularity of solutions to some systems of reaction--diffusion equations, with reaction terms having a subquadratic growth. We show the global boundedness and regularity of solutions, without smallness assumptions, in any dimension $N$. The proof is based on blow-up techniques. The natural entropy of the system plays a crucial role in the analysis. It allows us to use of De Giorgi type methods introduced for elliptic regularity with rough coefficients. In spite these systems are entropy supercritical, it is possible to control the hypothetical blow-ups, in the critical scaling, via a very weak norm. Analogies with the Navier-Stokes equation are briefly discussed in the introduction.

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arXiv2007

Regularity criterion for 3D Navier-Stokes equations in terms of the direction of the velocity

In this short note, we give a link between the regularity of the solution $u$ to the 3D Navier-Stokes equation, and the behavior of the direction of the velocity $u/|u|$. It is shown that the control of $\Div (u/|u|)$ in a suitable $L_t^p(L_x^q)$ norm is enough to ensure global regularity. The result is reminiscent of the criterion in terms of the direction of the vorticity, introduced first by Constantin and Fefferman. But in this case the condition is not on the vorticity, but on the velocity itself. The proof, based on very standard methods, relies on a straightforward relation between the divergence of the direction of the velocity and the growth of energy along streamlines.

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