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A fluid occupying a mechanically isolated vessel with walls kept at spatially non-uniform temperature is in the long run expected to reach the spatially inhomogeneous steady state. Irrespective of the initial conditions the velocity field is expected to vanish, and the temperature field is expected to be fully determined by the steady heat equation. This simple observation is however difficult to prove using the corresponding governing equations. The main difficulties are the presence of the dissipative heating term in the evolution equation for temperature and the lack of control on the heat fluxes through the boundary. Using thermodynamically based arguments, it is shown that these difficulties in the proof can be overcome, and it is proved that the velocity and temperature perturbations to the steady state actually vanish as the time goes to infinity.
We exploit a two-dimensional model [7], [6] and [1] describing the elastic behavior of the wall of a flexible blood vessel which takes interaction with surrounding muscle tissue and the 3D fluid flow into account. We study time periodic flows in a cylinder with such compound boundary conditions. The main result is that solutions of this problem do not depend on the period and they are nothing else but the time independent Poiseuille flow. Similar solutions of the Stokes equations for the rigid wall (the no-slip boundary condition) depend on the period and their profile depends on time.
We investigate the stability of a one-parameter family of periodic solutions of the four-vortex problem known as `leapfrogging orbits. These solutions, which consist of two pairs of identical yet oppositely-signed vortices, were known to W. Grobli (1877) and A. E. H. Love (1883), and can be parameterized by a dimensionless parameter $alpha$ related to the geometry of the initial configuration. Simulations by Acheson (2000) and numerical Floquet analysis by Toph{o}j and Aref (2012) both indicate, to many digits, that the bifurcation occurs when $1/alpha=phi^2$, where $phi$ is the golden ratio. This study aims to explain the origin of this remarkable value. Using a trick from the gravitational two-body problem, we change variables to render the Floquet problem in an explicit form that is more amenable to analysis. We then implement G. W. Hills method of harmonic balance to high order using computer algebra to construct a rapidly-converging sequence of asymptotic approximations to the bifurcation value, confirming the value found earlier.
The stability of asymptotic profiles of solutions to the Cauchy-Dirichlet problem for Fast Diffusion Equation (FDE, for short) is discussed. The main result of the present paper is the stability of any asymptotic profiles of least energy. It is noteworthy that this result can cover non-isolated profiles, e.g., those for thin annular domain cases. The method of proof is based on the Lojasiewicz-Simon inequality, which is usually used to prove the convergence of solutions to prescribed limits, as well as a uniform extinction estimate for solutions to FDE. Besides, local minimizers of an energy functional associated with this issue are characterized. Furthermore, the instability of positive radial asymptotic profiles in thin annular domains is also proved by applying the Lojasiewicz-Simon inequality in a different way.
In this paper, we prove the uniform nonlinear structural stability of Hagen-Poiseuille flows with arbitrary large fluxes in the axisymmetric case. This uniform nonlinear structural stability is the first step to study Liouville type theorem for steady solution of Navier-Stokes system in a pipe, which may play an important role in proving the existence of solutions for the Lerays problem, the existence of solutions of steady Navier-Stokes system with arbitrary flux in a general nozzle. A key step to establish nonlinear structural stability is the a priori estimate for the associated linearized problem for Navier-Stokes system around Hagen-Poiseuille flows. The linear structural stability is established as a consequence of elaborate analysis for the governing equation for the partial Fourier transform of the stream function. The uniform estimates are obtained based on the analysis for the solutions with different fluxes and frequencies. One of the most involved cases is to analyze the solutions with large flux and intermediate frequency, where the boundary layer analysis for the solutions plays a crucial role.
The aim of this paper is to study, in dimensions 2 and 3, the pure-power non-linear Schrodinger equation with an external uniform magnetic field included. In particular, we derive a general criteria on the initial data and the power of the non-linearity so that the corresponding solution blows up in finite time, and we show that the time for blow up to occur decreases as the strength of the magnetic field increases. In addition, we also discuss some observations about Strichartz estimates in 2 dimensions for the Mehler kernel, as well as similar blow-up results for the non-linear Pauli equation.