Georgia Institute of Technology College of Sciences

Transport equations arise in the modelling of several complex systems, including mean field games. Such equations often involve nonlinear dependence of the solution in the drift. These nonlinear transport equations can be understood by developing a theory for transport equations with irregular drifts. In this talk, I will outline the well-posedness theory for certain transport equations in which the drift has a one-sided bound on the divergence, yielding contractive or expansive behavior, depending on the direction in which the equation is posed.

The Intermediate Long Wave equation (ILW) describes long internal gravity waves in stratified fluids. As the depth parameter in the equation approaches zero or infinity, the ILW formally approaches the Kortweg-deVries equation (KdV) or the Benjamin-Ono equation (BO), respectively. Kodama, Ablowitz and Satsuma discovered the formal complete integrability of ILW and formulated inverse scattering transform solutions. If made rigorous, the inverse scattering method will provide powerful tools for asymptotic analysis of ILW.

I will discuss the linear stability of weakly charged and slowly rotating Kerr-Newman black holes under coupled gravitational and electromagnetic perturbations. We show that the solutions to the linearized Einstein-Maxwell equations decay at an inverse polynomial rate to a linearized Kerr-Newman solution plus a pure gauge term. The proof uses tools from microlocal analysis and a detailed description of the resolvent of the Fourier transformed linearized Einstein-Maxwell operator at low frequencies.

The classical Hele-Shaw flow describes the motion of incompressible viscous fluid, which occupies part of the space between two parallel, nearby plates. With source and drift, the equation is used in models of tumor growth where cells evolve with contact inhibition, and congested population dynamics. We consider the flow with Hölder continuous source and Lipschitz continuous drift. We show that if the free boundary of the solution is locally close to a Lipschitz graph, then it is indeed Lipschitz, given that the Lipschitz constant is small.

This talk is concerned with α-Hölder-continuous weak solutions of the incompressible Euler equations. A great deal of recent effort has led to the conclusion that the space of Euler flows is flexible when α is below 1/3, the famous Onsager regularity. We show how convex integration techniques can be extended above the Onsager regularity to all α<1/2 in the case of the forced Euler equations. This leads to a new non-uniqueness theorem for any initial data. This work is joint with Aynur Bulut and Manh Khang Huynh.

In this talk we report on recent works (with A. Cosso, I. Kharroubi, H. Pham, M. Rosestolato) on the optimal control of (possibly path dependent) McKean-Vlasov equations valued in Hilbert spaces. On the other side we present the first ideas of a work with S. Federico, D. Ghilli and M. Rosestolato, on Mean Field Games in infinite dimension.

The flow of compressible fluids is governed by the Euler equations, and understanding the dynamics for large times is an outstanding open problem whose full resolution is unlikely to happen in our lifetimes. The main source of difficulty is that any global-in-time theory must incorporate singularities in the PDEs, a fact we have known even in one spatial dimension since Riemann’s 1860 work. In this 1D setting, mathematicians have successfully spent the past 160 years painting a nearly-full picture of fluid dynamics that incorporates singularities.

For steady two-dimensional incompressible flows with a single eddy (i.e. nested closed streamlines), Prandtl (1905) and Batchelor (1956) proposed that in the limit of vanishing viscosity the vorticity is constant in an inner region separated from the boundary layer. By constructing higher order approximate solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations and establishing the validity of Prandtl boundary layer expansion, we give a rigorous proof of the existence of Prandtl-Batchelor flows on a disk with the wall velocity slightly different from the rigid-rotation.

A distinctive feature of nonlinear evolution equations is the possibility of breakdown of solutions in finite time. This phenomenon, which is also called singularity formation or blowup, has both physical and mathematical significance, and, as a consequence, predicting blowup and understanding its nature is a central problem of the modern analysis of nonlinear PDEs.

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