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We explore semi-complete self-similar solutions for the polytropic gas dynamics involving self-gravity under spherical symmetry, examine behaviours of the sonic critical curve, and present new asymptotic collapse solutions that describe `quasi-static asymptotic behaviours at small radii and large times. These new `quasi-static solutions with divergent mass density approaching the core can have self-similar oscillations. Earlier known solutions are summarized. Various semi-complete self-similar solutions involving such novel asymptotic solutions are constructed, either with or without a shock. In contexts of stellar core collapse and supernova explosion, a hydrodynamic model of a rebound shock initiated around the stellar degenerate core of a massive progenitor star is presented. With this dynamic model framework, we attempt to relate progenitor stars and the corresponding remnant compact stars: neutron stars, black holes, and white dwarfs.
In broad astrophysical contexts of large-scale gravitational collapses and outflows and as a basis for various further astrophysical applications, we formulate and investigate a theoretical problem of self-similar MHD for a non-rotating polytropic gas of quasi-spherical symmetry permeated by a completely random magnetic field. We derive two coupled nonlinear MHD ordinary differential equations (ODEs), examine properties of the magnetosonic critical curve, obtain various asymptotic and global semi-complete similarity MHD solutions, and qualify the applicability of our results. Unique to a magnetized gas cloud, a novel asymptotic MHD solution for a collapsing core is established. Physically, the similarity MHD inflow towards the central dense core proceeds in characteristic manners before the gas material eventually encounters a strong radiating MHD shock upon impact onto the central compact object. Sufficiently far away from the central core region enshrouded by such an MHD shock, we derive regular asymptotic behaviours. We study asymptotic solution behaviours in the vicinity of the magnetosonic critical curve. Numerically, we construct global semi-complete similarity MHD solutions that cross the magnetosonic critical curve zero, one, and two times. For comparison, counterpart solutions in the case of an isothermal unmagnetized and magnetized gas flows are demonstrated in the present MHD framework at nearly isothermal and weakly magnetized conditions. For a polytropic index $gamma=1.25$ or a strong magnetic field, different solution behaviours emerge. In these cases, there exist semi-complete similarity solutions crossing the magnetosonic critical curve only once, and the MHD counterpart of expansion-wave collapse solution disappears.
In the supercritical range of the polytropic indices $gammain(1,frac43)$ we show the existence of smooth radially symmetric self-similar solutions to the gravitational Euler-Poisson system. These solutions exhibit gravitational collapse in the sense that the density blows-up in finite time. Some of these solutions were numerically found by Yahil in 1983 and they can be thought of as polytropic analogues of the Larson-Penston collapsing solutions in the isothermal case $gamma=1$. They each contain a sonic point, which leads to numerous mathematical difficulties in the existence proof.
We consider the nonlinear heat equation $u_t = Delta u + |u|^alpha u$ with $alpha >0$, either on ${mathbb R}^N $, $Nge 1$, or on a bounded domain with Dirichlet boundary conditions. We prove that in the Sobolev subcritical case $(N-2) alpha <4$, for every $mu in {mathbb R}$, if the initial value $u_0$ satisfies $u_0 (x) = mu |x-x_0|^{-frac {2} {alpha }}$ in a neighborhood of some $x_0in Omega $ and is bounded outside that neighborhood, then there exist infinitely many solutions of the heat equation with the initial condition $u(0)= u_0$. The proof uses a fixed-point argument to construct perturbations of self-similar solutions with initial value $mu |x-x_0|^{-frac {2} {alpha }}$ on ${mathbb R}^N $. Moreover, if $mu ge mu _0$ for a certain $ mu _0( N, alpha )ge 0$, and $u_0 Ige 0$, then there is no nonnegative local solution of the heat equation with the initial condition $u(0)= u_0$, but there are infinitely many sign-changing solutions.
We show that self-similar solutions for the mean curvature flow, surface diffusion and Willmore flow of entire graphs are stable upon perturbations of initial data with small Lipschitz norm. Roughly speaking, the perturbed solutions are asymptotically self-similar as time tends to infinity. Our results are built upon the global analytic solutions constructed by Koch and Lamm cite{KochLamm}, the compactness arguments adapted by Asai and Giga cite{Giga2014}, and the spatial equi-decay properties on certain weighted function spaces. The proof for all of the above flows are achieved in a unified framework by utilizing the estimates of the linearized operator.
We show the existence of self-similar solutions for the Muskat equation. These solutions are parameterized by $0<s ll 1$; they are exact corners of slope $s$ at $t=0$ and become smooth in $x$ for $t>0$.