We study the Fokker–Planck equation as the many-particle limit of a stochastic particle system on one hand and as a Wasserstein gradient flow on the other. We write the path-space rate functional, which characterises the large deviations from the expected trajectories, in such a way that the free energy appears explicitly. Next we use this formulation via the contraction principle to prove that the discrete time rate functional is asymptotically equivalent in the Gamma-convergence sense to the functional...

Let WF⁎ be the wave front set with respect to $C^{\infty }$, quasi analyticity or analyticity, and let K be the kernel of a positive operator from $C{₀}^{\infty }$ to ’. We prove that if ξ ≠ 0 and (x,x,ξ,-ξ) ∉ WF⁎(K), then (x,y,ξ,-η) ∉ WF⁎(K) and (y,x,η,-ξ) ∉ WF⁎(K) for any y,η. We apply this property to positive elements with respect to the weighted convolution $u{\ast }_B\phi \left(x\right)=\int u(x-y)\phi \left(y\right)B(x,y)dy$, where $B\in C^{\infty }$ is appropriate, and prove that if $(u{\ast }_B\phi ,\phi )\ge 0$ for every $\phi \in C{₀}^{\infty }$ and (0,ξ) ∉ WF⁎(u), then (x,ξ) ∉ WF⁎(u) for any x.

This paper contains several recent results about nonlinear systems of hyperbolic conservation laws obtained through the technique of Wave Front Tracking.

1. This paper is devoted to the study of wave fronts of solutions of first order symmetric systems of non-linear partial differential equations. A short communication was published in [4]. The microlocal point of view enables us to obtain more precise information concerning the smoothness of solutions of symmetric hyperbolic systems. Our main result is a generalization to the non-linear case of Theorem 1.1 of Ivriĭ [3]. The machinery of paradifferential operators introduced by Bony [1] together...

The paper deals with the existence of periodic solutions of the boundary value problem for nonlinear heat equation, where various types of nonlinearities are considered. The proofs are based on the investigation of Liapunov-Schmidt bifurcation system via Leray-Schauder degree theory.

In the present paper, we prove the existence and uniqueness of weak solution to a class of nonlinear degenerate elliptic $p$-Laplacian problem with Dirichlet-type boundary condition, the main tool used here is the variational method combined with the theory of weighted Sobolev spaces.

We consider steady compressible Navier-Stokes-Fourier system in a bounded two-dimensional domain. We show the existence of a weak solution for arbitrarily large data for the pressure law $p(\varrho ,\vartheta )\sim {\varrho }^{\gamma }+\varrho \vartheta$ if $\gamma >1$ and $p(\varrho ,\vartheta )\sim \varrho {ln}^{\alpha }(1+\varrho )+\varrho \vartheta$ if $\gamma =1$, $\alpha >0$, depending on the model for the heat flux.

Bounded weak solutions to a particular class of degenerate parabolic cross-diffusion systems are shown to coincide with the unique strong solution determined by the same initial condition on the maximal existence interval of the latter. The proof relies on an estimate established for a relative entropy associated to the system.

The coupled Navier-Stokes/Allen-Cahn system is a simple model to describe phase separation in two-component systems interacting with an incompressible fluid flow. We demonstrate the weak-strong uniqueness result for this system in a bounded domain in three spatial dimensions which implies that when a strong solution exists, then a weak solution emanating from the same data coincides with the strong solution on its whole life span. The proof of given assertion relies on a form of a relative entropy...

We investigate a global-in-time variational approach to abstract evolution by means of the weighted energy-dissipation functionals proposed by Mielke and Ortiz [ESAIM: COCV14 (2008) 494–516]. In particular, we focus on gradient flows in Hilbert spaces. The main result is the convergence of minimizers and approximate minimizers of these functionals to the unique solution of the gradient flow. Sharp convergence rates are provided and the convergence analysis is combined with time-discretization....

We investigate a global-in-time variational approach to abstract evolution by means of the weighted energy-dissipation functionals proposed by Mielke and Ortiz [ESAIM: COCV14 (2008) 494–516]. In particular, we focus on gradient flows in Hilbert spaces. The main result is the convergence of minimizers and approximate minimizers of these functionals to the unique solution of the gradient flow. Sharp convergence rates are provided and the convergence analysis is combined with time-discretization....

The paper concerns uniqueness of weak solutions to non-Newtonian fluids with nonstandard growth conditions for the Cauchy stress tensor. We recall the results on existence of weak solutions and additionally provide the proof of existence of measure-valued solutions. Motivated by the fluids of strongly inhomogeneous behaviour and having the property of rapid shear thickening we observe that the described situation cannot be captured by power-law-type rheology. We describe the growth conditions with...