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In this paper we study the Peskin problem in 2D, which describes the dynamics of a 1D closed elastic structure immersed in a steady Stokes flow. We prove the local well-posedness for arbitrary initial configuration in $VMO^1$ satisfying the well-stretched condition, and the global well-posedness when the initial configuration is sufficiently close to an equilibrium in $BMO^1$. The global-in-time solution will converge to an equilibrium exponentially as $trightarrow+infty$. This is the first well-posedness result for the Peskin problem with non-Lipschitz initial data.
In this paper we study the asymptotics of the Korteweg--de Vries (KdV) equation with steplike initial data, which leads to shock waves, in the middle region between the dispersive tail and the soliton region, as $t rightarrow infty$. In our previous work we have dealt with this question, but failed to obtain uniform estimates in $x$ and $t$ because of the previously unknown singular behaviour of the matrix model solution. The main goal of this paper is to close this gap. We present an alternative approach to the usual argument involving a small norm Riemann--Hilbert (R-H) problem, which is based instead on Fredholm index theory for singular integral operators. In particular, we avoid the construction of a global model matrix solution, which would be singular for arbitrary large $x$ and $t$, and utilize only the symmetric model vector solution, which always exists and is unique.
We develop a strategy making extensive use of tent spaces to study parabolic equa-tions with quadratic nonlinearities as for the Navier-Stokes system. We begin with a new proof of the well-known result of Koch and Tataru on the well-posedness of Navier-Stokes equations in R^n with small initial data in BMO^{-1}(R^n). We then study another model where neither pointwise kernel bounds nor self-adjointness are available.
In this note we discuss the diffusive, vector-valued Burgers equations in a three-dimensional domain with periodic boundary conditions. We prove that given initial data in $H^{1/2}$ these equations admit a unique global solution that becomes classical immediately after the initial time. To prove local existence, we follow as closely as possible an argument giving local existence for the Navier--Stokes equations. The existence of global classical solutions is then a consequence of the maximum principle for the Burgers equations due to Kiselev and Ladyzhenskaya (1957). In several places we encounter difficulties that are not present in the corresponding analysis of the Navier--Stokes equations. These are essentially due to the absence of any of the cancellations afforded by incompressibility, and the lack of conservation of mass. Indeed, standard means of obtaining estimates in $L^2$ fail and we are forced to start with more regular data. Furthermore, we must control the total momentum and carefully check how it impacts on various standard estimates.
We consider the inverse Calderon problem consisting of determining the conductivity inside a medium by electrical measurements on its surface. Ideally, these measurements determine the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map and, therefore, one usually assumes the data to be given by such map. This situation corresponds to having access to infinite-precision measurements, which is totally unrealistic. In this paper, we study the Calderon problem assuming the data to contain measurement errors and provide formulas to reconstruct the conductivity and its normal derivative on the surface. Additionally, we state the rate convergence of the method. Our approach is theoretical and has a stochastic flavour.
In this paper, we consider the Cauchy problem to the planar non-resistive magnetohydrodynamic equations without heat conductivity, and establish the global well-posedness of strong solutions with large initial data. The key ingredient of the proof is to establish the a priori estimates on the effective viscous flux and a newly introduced transverse effective viscous flux vector field inducted by the transverse magnetic field. The initial density is assumed only to be uniformly bounded and of finite mass and, in particular, the vacuum and discontinuities of the density are allowed.