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On the motion of a body in thermal equilibrium immersed in a perfect gas

Kazuo Aoki, Guido Cavallaro, Carlo Marchioro, Mario Pulvirenti (2008)

ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis

We consider a body immersed in a perfect gas and moving under the action of a constant force. Body and gas are in thermal equilibrium. We assume a stochastic interaction body/medium: when a particle of the medium hits the body, it is absorbed and immediately re-emitted with a Maxwellian distribution. This system gives rise to a microscopic model of friction. We study the approach of the body velocity V(t) to the limiting velocity V and prove that, under suitable smallness assumptions, the approach...

On the motion of a curve by its binormal curvature

Jerrard, Robert L., Didier Smets (2015)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

We propose a weak formulation for the binormal curvature flow of curves in 3 . This formulation is sufficiently broad to consider integral currents as initial data, and sufficiently strong for the weak-strong uniqueness property to hold, as long as self-intersections do not occur. We also prove a global existence theorem in that framework.

On the motion of rigid bodies in a viscous fluid

Eduard Feireisl (2002)

Applications of Mathematics

We consider the problem of motion of several rigid bodies in a viscous fluid. Both compressible and incompressible fluids are studied. In both cases, the existence of globally defined weak solutions is established regardless possible collisions of two or more rigid objects.

On the Newton partially flat minimal resistance body type problems

M. Comte, Jesus Ildefonso Díaz (2005)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

We study the flat region of stationary points of the functional Ω F ( | u ( x ) | ) d x under the constraint u M , where Ω is a bounded domain in 2 . Here F ( s ) is a function which is concave for s small and convex for s large, and M > 0 is a given constant. The problem generalizes the classical minimal resistance body problems considered by Newton. We construct a family of partially flat radial solutions to the associated stationary problem when Ω is a ball. We also analyze some other qualitative properties. Moreover, we show the...

On the nonhamiltonian character of shocks in 2-D pressureless gas

Yu. G. Rykov (2002)

Bollettino dell'Unione Matematica Italiana

The paper deals with the 2-D system of gas dynamics without pressure which was introduced in 1970 by Ua. Zeldovich to describe the formation of largescale structure of the Universe. Such system occurs to be an intermediate object between the systems of ordinary differential equations and hyperbolic systems of PDE. The main its feature is the arising of singularities: discontinuities for velocity and d-functions of various types for density. The rigorous notion of generalized solutions in terms of...

On the one-dimensional Boltzmann equation for granular flows

Dario Benedetto, Mario Pulvirenti (2001)

ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis - Modélisation Mathématique et Analyse Numérique

We consider a Boltzmann equation for inelastic particles on the line and prove existence and uniqueness for the solutions.

On the onset of convection in porous media: temperature depending viscosity

F. Capone (2001)

Bollettino dell'Unione Matematica Italiana

Si considera l'insorgere della convezione naturale in un mezzo poroso (Horton-Rogers-Lapwood problem), assumendo che la viscosità del fluido dipenda dalla temperatura. Adoperando il metodo diretto di Liapunov, si effettua l'analisi della stabilitá non lineare della soluzione di conduzione per i modelli di Darcy e di Forchheimer.

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