Seminars and Colloquia by Series

Eulerian dynamics with alignment interactions

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PDE Seminar
Time
Tuesday, March 12, 2019 - 15:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Changhui TanUniversity of South Carolina
The Euler-Alignment system arises as a macroscopic representation of the Cucker-Smale model, which describes the flocking phenomenon in animal swarms. The nonlinear and nonlocal nature of the system bring challenges in studying global regularity and long time behaviors. In this talk, I will discuss the global wellposedness of the Euler-Alignment system with three types of nonlocal alignment interactions: bounded, strongly singular, and weakly singular interactions. Different choices of interactions will lead to different global behaviors. I will also discuss interesting connections to some fluid dynamics systems, including the fractional Burgers equation, and the aggregation equation.

Field Theoretical Interpretation of QM Wave Functions and Quantum Mechanism of High Tc Superconductivity

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PDE Seminar
Time
Tuesday, March 5, 2019 - 15:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Professor Shouhong WangIndiana University

First, we introduce a new field theoretical interpretation of quantum mechanical wave functions, by postulating that the wave function is the common wave function for all particles in the same class determined by the external potential V, of the modulus of the wave function represents the distribution density of the particles, and the gradient of phase of the wave function provides the velocity field of the particles. Second, we show that the key for condensation of bosonic particles is that their interaction is sufficiently weak to ensure that a large collection of boson particles are in a state governed by the same condensation wave function field under the same bounding potential V. For superconductivity, the formation of superconductivity comes down to conditions for the formation of electron-pairs, and for the electron-pairs to share a common wave function. Thanks to the recently developed PID interaction potential of electrons and the average-energy level formula of temperature, these conditions for superconductivity are explicitly derived. Furthermore, we obtain both microscopic and macroscopic formulas for the critical temperature. Third, we derive the field and topological phase transition equations for condensates, and make connections to the quantum phase transition, as a topological phase transition. This is joint work with Tian Ma.

Boundary regularity for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations

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PDE Seminar
Time
Tuesday, February 26, 2019 - 15:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Professor Hongjie DongBrown University
I will first give a short introduction of the Navier-Stokes equations, then review some previous results on theconditional regularity of solutions to the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in the critical Lebesguespaces, and finally discuss some recent work which mainly addressed the boundary regularity issue.

Global solutions of incompressible viscoelastic fluids with large velocity on low frequency part

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PDE Seminar
Time
Tuesday, February 12, 2019 - 15:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
skiles 006
Speaker
Ting ZhangZhejiang University

Abstract: In this talk, we consider the Cauchy problem of the N-dimensional incompressible viscoelastic fluids with N ≥ 2. It is shown that, in the low frequency part, this system possesses some dispersive properties derived from the one parameter group e∓itΛ. Based on this dispersive effect, we construct global solutions with large initial velocity concentrating on the low frequency part. Such kind of solution has never been seen before in the literature even for the classical incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. The proof relies heavily on the dispersive estimates for the system of acoustics, and a careful study of the nonlinear terms. And we also obtain the similar result for the isentropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations. Here, the initial velocity with arbitrary B⋅N 2 −1 2,1 norm of potential part P⊥u0 and large highly oscillating are allowed in our results. (Joint works with Daoyuan Fang and Ruizhao Zi)

On the relationship between the thin film equation and Tanner's law

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PDE Seminar
Time
Tuesday, January 22, 2019 - 15:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
In this talk we will introduce two models for the movement of a small droplet over a substrate: the thin film equation and the quasi static approximation. By tracking the motion of the apparent support of solutions to the thin film equation, we connect these two models. This connection was expected from Tanner's law: the edge velocity of a spreading thin film on a pre-wetted solid is approximately proportional to the cube of the slope at the inflection. This is joint work with Prof. Antoine Mellet.

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PDE Seminar
Time
Tuesday, November 27, 2018 - 15:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
skiles 006
Speaker
Yilun(Allen) WuThe University of Oklahoma
A rotating star may be modeled as gas under self gravity with a given total mass and prescribed angular velocity. Mathematically this leads to the Euler-Poisson system. In this talk, we present an existence theorem for such stars that are rapidly rotating, depending continuously on the speed of rotation. No previous results using continuation methods allowed rapid rotation. The key tool for the result is global continuation theory via topological degree, combined with a delicate limiting process. The solutions form a connected set $\mathcal K$ in an appropriate function space. Take an equation of state of the form $p = \rho^\gamma$; $6/5 < \gamma < 2$, $\gamma\ne 4/3$. As the speed of rotation increases, we prove that either the density somewhere within the stars becomes unbounded, or the supports of the stars in $\mathcal K$ become unbounded. Moreover, the latter alternative must occur if $\frac43<\gamma<2$. This result is joint work with Walter Strauss.

Obstacle problems for fully nonlinear PDEs

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PDE Seminar
Time
Tuesday, November 13, 2018 - 15:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 005
Speaker
Prof. Shigeaki KoikeTohoku University, Japan
We discuss bilateral obstacle problems for fully nonlinear second order uniformly elliptic partial differential equations (PDE for short) with merely continuous obstacles. Obstacle problems arise not only in minimization of energy functionals under restriction by obstacles but also stopping time problems in stochastic optimal control theory. When the main PDE part is of divergence type, huge amount of works have been done. However, less is known when it is of non-divergence type. Recently, Duque showed that the Holder continuity of viscosity solutions of bilateral obstacle problems, whose PDE part is of non-divergence type, and obstacles are supposed to be Holder continuous. Our purpose is to extend his result to enable us to apply a much wider class of PDE. This is a joint work with Shota Tateyama (Tohoku University).

Inviscid damping near Couette flow in a finite channel

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PDE Seminar
Time
Tuesday, November 6, 2018 - 15:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Hao JiaUniversity of Minnesota
The two dimensional Euler equation is globally wellposed, but the long time behavior of solutions is not well understood. Generically, it is conjectured that the vorticity, due to mixing, should weakly but not strongly converge as $t\to\infty$. In an important work, Bedrossian and Masmoudi studied the perturbative regime near Couette flow $(y,0)$ on an infinite cylinder, and proved small perturbation in the Gevrey space relaxes to a nearby shear flow. In this talk, we will explain a recent extension to the case of a finite cylinder (i.e. a periodic channel) with perturbations in a critical Gevrey space for this problem. The main interest of this extension is to consider the natural boundary effects, and to ensure that the Couette flow in our domain has finite energy. Joint work with Alex Ionescu.

Derivative estimates for elliptic systems from composite material

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PDE Seminar
Time
Tuesday, October 16, 2018 - 15:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Prof. Yanyan LiRutgers University
We give derivative estimates for solutions to divergence form elliptic equations with piecewise smooth coefficients. The novelty of these estimates is that, even though they depend on the shape and on the size of the surfaces of discontinuity of the coefficients, they are independent of the distance between these surfaces.

Hyperbolic conservation laws arising in the study of the forward-forward Mean-Field Games

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PDE Seminar
Time
Thursday, October 11, 2018 - 15:00 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 005
Speaker
Marc SedjroAfrican Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Tanzania
In this talk, we introduce several models of the so-called forward-forward Mean-Field Games (MFGs). The forward-forward models arise in the study of numerical schemes to approximate stationary MFGs. We establish a link between these models and a class of hyperbolic conservation laws. Furthermore, we investigate the existence of solutions and examine long-time limit properties. Joint work with Diogo Gomes and Levon Nurbekyan.