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Francesco Fanelli

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arXiv2016

Geophysical flows and the effects of a strong surface tension

In the present note we review some recent results for a class of singular perturbation problems for a Navier-Stokes-Korteweg system with Coriolis force. More precisely, we study the asymptotic behaviour of solutions when taking incompressible and fast rotation limits simultaneously, in a constant capillarity regime. Our main purpose here is to explain in detail the description of the phenomena we want to capture, and the mathematical derivation of the system of equations. Hence, a huge part of this work is devoted to physical considerations and mathematical modeling.

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arXiv2016

A singular limit problem for rotating capillary fluids with variable rotation axis

In the present paper we study a singular perturbation problem for a Navier-Stokes-Korteweg model with Coriolis force. Namely, we perform the incompressible and fast rotation asymptotics simultaneously, while we keep the capillarity coefficient constant in order to capture surface tension effects in the limit. We consider here the case of variable rotation axis: we prove the convergence to a linear parabolic-type equation with variable coefficients. The proof of the result relies on compensated compactness arguments. Besides, we look for minimal regularity assumptions on the variations of the axis.

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arXiv2015

Some local questions for hyperbolic systems with non-regular time dependent coefficients

In this note we investigate local properties for microlocally symmetrizable hyperbolic systems with just time dependent coefficients. Thanks to Paley-Wiener theorem, we establish finite propagation speed by showing precise estimates on the evolution of the support of the solution in terms of suitable norms of the coefficients of the operator and of the symmetrizer. From this result, local existence and uniqueness follow by quite standard methods. Our argument relies on the use of Fourier transform, and it cannot be extended to operators whose coefficients depend also on the space variables. On the other hand, it works under very mild regularity assumptions on the coefficients of the operator and of the symmetrizer.

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arXiv2014

The well-posedness issue in Sobolev spaces for hyperbolic systems with Zygmund-type coefficients

In this paper we study the well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for first order hyperbolic systems with constant multiplicities and with low regularity coefficients depending just on the time variable. We consider Zygmund and log-Zygmund type assumptions, and we prove well-posedness in $H^\infty$ respectively without loss and with finite loss of derivatives. The key to obtain the results is the construction of a suitable symmetrizer for our system, which allows us to recover energy estimates (with or without loss) for the hyperbolic operator under consideration. This can be achievied, in contrast with the classical case of systems with smooth (say Lipschitz) coefficients, by adding one step in the diagonalization process, and building the symmetrizer up to the second order.

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arXiv2014

The well-posedness issue in endpoint spaces for an inviscid low-Mach number limit system

The present paper is devoted to the well-posedness issue for a low-Mach number limit system with heat conduction but no viscosity. We will work in the framework of general Besov spaces $B^s_{p,r}(\R^d)$, $d\geq 2$, which can be embedded into the class of Lipschitz functions. Firstly, we consider the case of $p\in[2,4]$, with no further restrictions on the initial data. Then we tackle the case of any $p\in\,]1,\infty]$, but requiring also a finite energy assumption. The extreme value $p=\infty$ can be treated due to a new a priori estimate for parabolic equations. At last we also briefly consider the case of any $p\in ]1,\infty[$ but with smallness condition on initial inhomogeneity. A continuation criterion and a lower bound for the lifespan of the solution are proved as well. In particular in dimension 2, the lower bound goes to infinity as the initial density tends to a constant.

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arXiv2014

The well-posedness issue for an inviscid zero-Mach number system in general Besov spaces

The present paper is devoted to the study of a zero-Mach number system with heat conduction but no viscosity. We work in the framework of general non-homogeneous Besov spaces $B^s_{p,r}(\mathbb{R}^d)$, with $p\in[2,4]$ and for any $d\geq 2$, which can be embedded into the class of globally Lipschitz functions. We prove a local in time well-posedness result in these classes for general initial densities and velocity fields. Moreover, we are able to show a continuation criterion and a lower bound for the lifespan of the solutions. The proof of the results relies on Littlewood-Paley decomposition and paradifferential calculus, and on refined commutator estimates in Chemin-Lerner spaces.

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arXiv2014

Analysis of an inviscid zero-Mach number system in endpoint Besov spaces with finite-energy initial data

The present paper is the continuation of work [14], devoted to the study of an inviscid zero-Mach number system in the framework of \emph{endpoint} Besov spaces of type $B^s_{\infty,r}(\mathbb{R}^d)$, $r\in [1,\infty]$, $d\geq 2$, which can be embedded in the Lipschitz class $C^{0,1}$. In particular, the largest case $B^1_{\infty,1}$ and the case of Hölder spaces $C^{1,α}$ are permitted. The local in time well-posedness result is proved, under an additional $L^2$ hypothesis on the initial inhomogeneity and velocity field. A new a priori estimate for parabolic equations in endpoint spaces $B^s_{\infty,r}$ is presented, which is the key to the proof. In dimension two, we are able to give a lower bound for the lifespan, such that the solutions tend to be globally defined when the initial inhomogeneity is small. There we will show a refined a priori estimate in endpoint Besov spaces for transport equations with \emph{non solenoidal} transport velocity field.

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arXiv2013

Conservation of geometric structures for non-homogeneous inviscid incompressible fluids

We obtain a result about propagation of geometric properties for solutions of the non-homogeneous incompressible Euler system in any dimension $N\geq2$. In particular, we investigate conservation of striated and conormal regularity, which is a natural way of generalizing the 2-D structure of vortex patches. The results we get are only local in time, even in the dimension N=2; however, we provide an explicit lower bound for the lifespan of the solution. In the case of physical dimension N=2 or 3, we investigate also propagation of Hölder regularity in the interior of a bounded domain.

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arXiv2013

The well-posedness issue for the density-dependent Euler equations in endpoint Besov spaces

This work is the continuation of the recent paper \cite{D2} devoted to the density-dependent incompressible Euler equations. Here we concentrate on the well-posedness issue in Besov spaces of type $B^s_{\infty,r}$ embedded in the set of Lipschitz continuous functions, a functional framework which contains the particular case of Hölder spaces and of the endpoint Besov space $B^1_{\infty,1}.$ For such data and under the nonvacuum assumption, we establish the local well-posedness and a continuation criterion in the spirit of that of Beale, Kato and Majda in \cite{BKM}. In the last part of the paper, we give lower bounds for the lifespan of a solution. In dimension two, we point out that the lifespan tends to infinity when the initial density tends to be a constant. This is, to our knowledge, the first result of this kind for the density-dependent incompressible Euler equations.

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arXiv2013

A well-posedness result for hyperbolic operators with Zygmund coefficients

In this paper we prove an energy estimate with no loss of derivatives for a strictly hyperbolic operator with Zygmund continuous second order coefficients both in time and in space. In particular, this estimate implies the well-posedness for the related Cauchy problem. On the one hand, this result is quite surprising, because it allows to consider coefficients which are not Lipschitz continuous in time. On the other hand, it holds true only in the very special case of initial data in $H^{1/2}\times H^{-1/2}$. Paradifferential calculus with parameters is the main ingredient to the proof.

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arXiv2013

Time-dependent loss of derivatives for hyperbolic operators with non regular coefficients

In this paper we will study the Cauchy problem for strictly hyperbolic operators with low regularity coefficients in any space dimension $N\geq1$. We will suppose the coefficients to be log-Zygmund continuous in time and log-Lipschitz continuous in space. Paradifferential calculus with parameters will be the main tool to get energy estimates in Sobolev spaces and these estimates will present a time-dependent loss of derivatives.

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arXiv2013

Weak observability estimates for 1-D wave equations with rough coefficients

In this paper we prove observability estimates for 1-dimensional wave equations with non-Lipschitz coefficients. For coefficients in the Zygmund class we prove a "classical" observability estimate, which extends the well-known observability results in the energy space for $BV$ regularity. When the coefficients are instead log-Lipschitz or log-Zygmund, we prove observability estimates "with loss of derivatives": in order to estimate the total energy of the solutions, we need measurements on some higher order Sobolev norms at the boundary. This last result represents the intermediate step between the Lipschitz (or Zygmund) case, when observability estimates hold in the energy space, and the Hölder one, when they fail at any finite order (as proved in \cite{Castro-Z}) due to an infinite loss of derivatives. We also establish a sharp relation between the modulus of continuity of the coefficients and the loss of derivatives in the observability estimates. In particular, we will show that under any condition which is weaker than the log-Lipschitz one (not only Hölder, for instance), observability estimates fail in general, while in the intermediate instance between the Lipschitz and the log-Lipschitz ones they can hold only admitting a loss of a finite number of derivatives. This classification has an exact counterpart when considering also the second variation of the coefficients.

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