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Toan T. Nguyen

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arXiv2018

Linear inviscid damping and enhanced viscous dissipation of shear flows by using the conjugate operator method

We study the large time behavior of solutions to two-dimensional Euler and Navier-Stokes equations linearized about shear flows of the mixing layer type in the unbounded channel $\mathbb{T} \times \mathbb{R}$. Under a simple spectral stability assumption on a self-adjoint operator, we prove a local form of the linear inviscid damping that is uniform with respect to small viscosity. We also prove a local form of the enhanced viscous dissipation that takes place at times of order $ν^{-1/3}$, $ν$ being the small viscosity. To prove these results, we use a Hamiltonian approach, following the conjugate operator method developed in the study of Schrödinger operators, combined with a hypocoercivity argument to handle the viscous case.

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arXiv2018

Nonlinear stability of source defects in oscillatory media

In this paper, we prove the nonlinear stability under localized perturbations of spectrally stable time-periodic source defects of reaction-diffusion systems. Consisting of a core that emits periodic wave trains to each side, source defects are important as organizing centers of more complicated flows. Our analysis uses spatial dynamics combined with an instantaneous phase-tracking technique to obtain detailed pointwise estimates describing perturbations to lowest order as a phase-shift radiating outward at a linear rate plus a pair of localized approximately Gaussian excitations along the phase-shift boundaries; we show that in the wake of these outgoing waves the perturbed solution converges time-exponentially to a space-time translate of the original source pattern.

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arXiv2017

On the kinetic equation in Zakharov's wave turbulence theory for capillary waves

The wave turbulence equation is an effective kinetic equation that describes the dynamics of wave spectrum in weakly nonlinear and dispersive media. Such a kinetic model has been derived by physicists in the sixties, though the well-posedness theory remains open, due to the complexity of resonant interaction kernels. In this paper, we provide a global unique radial strong solution, the first such a result, to the wave turbulence equation for capillary waves.

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arXiv2017

Long time estimates for the Vlasov-Maxwell system in the non-relativistic limit

In this paper, we study the Vlasov-Maxwell system in the non-relativistic limit, that is in the regime where the speed of light is a very large parameter. We consider data lying in the vicinity of homogeneous equilibria that are stable in the sense of Penrose (for the Vlasov-Poisson system), and prove Sobolev stability estimates that are valid for times which are polynomial in terms of the speed of light and of the inverse of size of initial perturbations. We build a kind of higher-order Vlasov-Darwin approximation which allows us to reach arbitrarily large powers of the speed of light.

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arXiv2017

Nonlinear instability of Vlasov-Maxwell systems in the classical and quasineutral limits

We study the instability of solutions to the relativistic Vlasov-Maxwell systems in two limiting regimes: the classical limit when the speed of light tends to infinity and the quasineutral limit when the Debye length tends to zero. First, in the classical limit $\varepsilon \to 0$, with $\varepsilon$ being the inverse of the speed of light, we construct a family of solutions that converge initially polynomially fast to a homogeneous solution $μ$ of Vlasov-Poisson in arbitrarily high Sobolev norms, but become of order one away from $μ$ in arbitrary negative Sobolev norms within time of order $|\log \varepsilon|$. Second, we deduce the invalidity of the quasineutral limit in $L^2$ in arbitrarily short time.

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arXiv2017

The vanishing viscosity limit for 2D Navier-Stokes in a rough domain

We study the high Reynolds number limit of a viscous fluid in the presence of a rough boundary. We consider the two-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with Navier slip boundary condition, in a domain whose boundaries exhibit fast oscillations in the form $x_2 = \varepsilon^{1+α} η(x_1/\varepsilon)$, $α> 0$. Under suitable conditions on the oscillating parameter $\varepsilon$ and the viscosity $ν$, we show that solutions of the Navier-Stokes system converge to solutions of the Euler system in the vanishing limit of both $ν$ and $\varepsilon$. The main issue is that the curvature of the boundary is unbounded as $\varepsilon \rightarrow 0$, which precludes the use of standard methods to obtain the inviscid limit. Our approach is to first construct an accurate boundary layer approximation to the Euler solution in the rough domain, and then to derive stability estimates for this approximation under the Navier-Stokes evolution.

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arXiv2017

Grand-canonical Monte-Carlo simulation of solutions of salt mixtures: theory and implementation

A Grand-canonical Monte-Carlo simulation method extended to simulate a mixture of salts is presented. Due to charge neutrality requirement of electrolyte solutions, ions must be added to or removed from the system in groups. This leads to some complications compared to regular Grand Canonical simulation. Here, a recipe for simulation of electrolyte solution of salt mixture is presented. It is then implemented to simulate solution of 1:1, 2:1 and 2:2 salts or their mixtures at different concentrations using the primitive ion model. The osmotic pressures of the electrolyte solutions are calculated and shown to depend linearly on the salt concentrations within the concentration range simulated. We also show that at the same concentration of divalent anions, the presence of divalent cations make it easier to insert monovalent cations into the system. This can explain some quantitative differences observed in experiments of the MgCl$_2$ salt mixture and MgSO$_4$ salt mixture.

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arXiv2017

DNA like$-$charge attraction and overcharging by divalent counterions in the presence of divalent co$-$ions

Strongly correlated electrostatics of DNA systems has drawn the interest of many groups, especially the condensation and overcharging of DNA by multivalent counterions. By adding counterions of different valencies and shapes, one can enhance or reduce DNA overcharging. In this papers, we focus on the effect of multivalent co-ions, specifically divalent co-ions such as SO$_4^{2-}$. A computational experiment of DNA condensation using Monte$-$Carlo simulation in grand canonical ensemble is carried out where DNA system is in equilibrium with a bulk solution containing a mixture of salt of different valency of co-ions. Compared to system with purely monovalent co-ions, the influence of divalent co-ions shows up in multiple aspects. Divalent co-ions lead to an increase of monovalent salt in the DNA condensate. Because monovalent salts mostly participate in linear screening of electrostatic interactions in the system, more monovalent salt molecules enter the condensate leads to screening out of short-range DNA$-$DNA like charge attraction and weaker DNA condensation free energy. The overcharging of DNA by multivalent counterions is also reduced in the presence of divalent co$-$ions. Strong repulsions between DNA and divalent co-ions and among divalent co-ions themselves leads to a {\em depletion} of negative ions near DNA surface as compared to the case without divalent co-ions. At large distance, the DNA$-$DNA repulsive interaction is stronger in the presence of divalent co$-$ions, suggesting that divalent co$-$ions role is not only that of simple stronger linear screening.

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arXiv2017

Green function for linearized Navier-Stokes around a boundary layer profile: near critical layers

This is a continuation and completion of the program (initiated in \cite{GrN1,GrN2}) to derive pointwise estimates on the Green function and sharp bounds on the semigroup of linearized Navier-Stokes around a generic stationary boundary layer profile. This is done via a spectral analysis approach and a careful study of the Orr-Sommerfeld equations, or equivalently the Navier-Stokes resolvent operator $(λ- L)^{-1}$. The earlier work (\cite{GrN1,GrN2}) treats the Orr-Sommerfeld equations away from critical layers: this is the case when the phase velocity is away from the range of the background profile or when $λ$ is away from the Euler continuous spectrum. In this paper, we study the critical case: the Orr-Sommerfeld equations near critical layers, providing pointwise estimates on the Green function as well as carefully studying the Dunford's contour integral near the critical layers. As an application, we obtain pointwise estimates on the Green function and sharp bounds on the semigroup of the linearized Navier-Stokes problem near monotonic boundary layers that are spectrally stable to the Euler equations, complementing \cite{GrN1,GrN2} where unstable profiles are considered.

math.AP↗

arXiv2017

Sublayer of Prandtl boundary layers

The aim of this paper is to investigate the stability of Prandtl boundary layers in the vanishing viscosity limit: $ν\to 0$. In \cite{Grenier}, one of the authors proved that there exists no asymptotic expansion involving one Prandtl's boundary layer with thickness of order $\sqrtν$, which describes the inviscid limit of Navier-Stokes equations. The instability gives rise to a viscous boundary sublayer whose thickness is of order $ν^{3/4}$. In this paper, we point out how the stability of the classical Prandtl's layer is linked to the stability of this sublayer. In particular, we prove that the two layers cannot both be nonlinearly stable in $L^\infty$. That is, either the Prandtl's layer or the boundary sublayer is nonlinearly unstable in the sup norm.

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arXiv2016

The Maxwell-Boltzmann approximation for ion kinetic modeling

This paper aims to justify the Maxwell-Boltzmann approximation for electrons, preserving the dynamics of ions at the kinetic level. Under sufficient regularity assumption, we provide a precise scaling where the Maxwell-Boltzmann approximation is obtained. In addition, we prove that the reduced ions problem is well-posed globally in time.

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arXiv2016

The onset of instability in first-order systems

We study the Cauchy problem for first-order quasi-linear systems of partial differential equations. When the spectrum of the initial principal symbol is not included in the real line, i.e., when hyperbolicity is violated at initial time, then the Cauchy problem is strongly unstable, in the sense of Hadamard. This phenomenon, which extends the linear Lax-Mizohata theorem, was explained by G. Métivier in [{\it Remarks on the well-posedness of the nonlinear Cauchy problem}, Contemp.~Math.~2005]. In the present paper, we are interested in the transition from hyperbolicity to non-hyperbolicity, that is the limiting case where hyperbolicity holds at initial time, but is violated at positive times: under such an hypothesis, we generalize a recent work by N. Lerner, Y. Morimoto and C.-J. Xu [{\it Instability of the Cauchy-Kovalevskaya solution for a class of non-linear systems}, American J.~Math.~2010] on complex scalar systems, as we prove that even a weak defect of hyperbolicity implies a strong Hadamard instability. Our examples include Burgers systems, Van der Waals gas dynamics, and Klein-Gordon-Zakharov systems. Our analysis relies on an approximation result for pseudo-differential flows, introduced by B.~Texier in [{\it Approximations of pseudo-differential flows}, Indiana Univ. Math. J.~2016].

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arXiv2016

Grand-canonical simulation of DNA condensation with two salts, affect of divalent counterion size

The problem of DNA$-$DNA interaction mediated by divalent counterions is studied using a generalized Grand-canonical Monte-Carlo simulation for a system of two salts. The effect of the divalent counterion size on the condensation behavior of the DNA bundle is investigated. Experimentally, it is known that multivalent counterions have strong effect on the DNA condensation phenomenon. While tri- and tetra-valent counterions are shown to easily condense free DNA molecules in solution into toroidal bundles, the situation with divalent counterions are not as clear cut. Some divalent counterions like Mg$^{+2}$ are not able to condense free DNA molecules in solution, while some like Mn$^{+2}$ can condense them into disorder bundles. In restricted environment such as in two dimensional system or inside viral capsid, Mg$^{+2}$ can have strong effect and able to condense them, but the condensation varies qualitatively with different system, different coions. It has been suggested that divalent counterions can induce attraction between DNA molecules but the strength of the attraction is not strong enough to condense free DNA in solution. However, if the configuration entropy of DNA is restricted, these attractions are enough to cause appreciable effects. The variations among different divalent salts might be due to the hydration effect of the divalent counterions. In this paper, we try to understand this variation using a very simple parameter, the size of the divalent counterions. We investigate how divalent counterions with different sizes can leads to varying qualitative behavior of DNA condensation in restricted environments. Additionally a Grand canonical Monte-Carlo method for simulation of systems with two different salts is presented in detail.

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arXiv2016

Ill-posedness of the hydrostatic Euler and singular Vlasov equations

In this paper, we develop an abstract framework to establish ill-posedness in the sense of Hadamard for some nonlocal PDEs displaying unbounded unstable spectra. We apply it to prove the ill-posedness for the hydrostatic Euler equations as well as for the kinetic incompressible Euler equations and the Vlasov-Dirac-Benney system.

math.AP↗

arXiv2016

Instabilities in the mean field limit

Consider a system of $N$ particles interacting through Newton's second law with Coulomb interaction potential in one spatial dimension or a $\mathcal{C}^2$ smooth potential in any dimension. We prove that in the mean field limit $N \to + \infty$, the $N$ particles system displays instabilities in times of order $\log N$ for some configurations approximately distributed according to unstable homogeneous equilibria.

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arXiv2014

Prandtl boundary layer expansions of steady Navier-Stokes flows over a moving plate

This paper concerns the validity of the Prandtl boundary layer theory in the inviscid limit for steady incompressible Navier-Stokes flows. The stationary flows, with small viscosity, are considered on $[0,L]\times \mathbb{R}_{+}$, assuming a no-slip boundary condition over a moving plate at $y=0$. We establish the validity of the Prandtl boundary layer expansion and its error estimates.

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arXiv2014

Remarks on the inviscid limit for the compressible flows

We establish various criteria, which are known in the incompressible case, for the validity of the inviscid limit for the compressible Navier-Stokes flows considered in a general domain $Ω$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with or without a boundary. In the presence of a boundary, a generalized Navier boundary condition for velocity is assumed, which in particular by convention includes the classical no-slip boundary conditions. In this general setting we extend the Kato criteria and show the convergence to a solution which is dissipative "up to the boundary". In the case of smooth solutions, the convergence is obtained in the relative energy norm.

math.AP↗

arXiv2014

Global magnetic confinement for the 1.5D Vlasov-Maxwell system

We establish the global-in-time existence and uniqueness of classical solutions to the "one and one-half" dimensional relativistic Vlasov--Maxwell systems in a bounded interval, subject to an external magnetic field which is infinitely large at the spatial boundary. We prove that the large external magnetic field confines the particles to a compact set away from the boundary. This excludes the known singularities that typically occur due to particles that repeatedly bounce off the boundary. In addition to the confinement, we follow the techniques introduced by Glassey and Schaeffer, who studied the Cauchy problem without boundaries.

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