The goal of this note is to present the recent results concerning the controllability of the Vlasov-Maxwell system, which are proved in the paper [10] by Olivier Glass and the author.
The initial boundary-transmission problems for electromagnetic fields in homogeneous and anisotropic media for canonical semi-infinite domains, like halfspaces, wedges and the exterior of half- and quarter-plane obstacles are formulated with the use of complex quaternions. The time-harmonic case was studied by A. Passow in his Darmstadt thesis 1998 in which he treated also the case of an homogeneous and isotropic layer in free space and above an ideally conducting plane. For thin layers and free...
This paper deals with some inverse and control problems for the Navier-Stokes and related systems. We will focus on some particular aspects that have recently led to interesting (theoretical and numerical) results: geometric inverse problems, Eulerian and Lagrangian controllability and vortex reduction oriented to shape optimization.
We study the nonstationary Navier-Stokes equations in the entire three-dimensional space and give some criteria on certain components of gradient of the velocity which ensure its global-in-time smoothness.
In order to accommodate solutions with multiple phases, corresponding to crossing rays, we formulate geometrical optics for the scalar wave equation as a kinetic transport equation set in phase space. If the maximum number of phases is finite and known a priori we can recover the exact multiphase solution from an associated system of moment equations, closed by an assumption on the form of the density function in the kinetic equation. We consider two different closure assumptions based on delta...
Two kinds of orthogonal decompositions of the Sobolev space W̊₂¹ and hence also of for bounded domains are given. They originate from a decomposition of W̊₂¹ into the orthogonal sum of the subspace of the -solenoidal functions, k ≥ 1, and its explicitly given orthogonal complement. This decomposition is developed in the real as well as in the complex case. For the solenoidal subspace (k = 0) the decomposition appears in a little different form. In the second kind decomposition the -solenoidal...
This is a survey of some recent results on the existence of globally defined weak solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations of a viscous compressible fluid with a general barotropic pressure-density relation.
We consider the dynamics of an interface given by two incompressible fluids with different characteristics evolving by Darcy’s law. This scenario is known as the Muskat problem, being in 2D mathematically analogous to the two-phase Hele-Shaw cell. The purpose of this paper is to outline recent results on local existence, weak solutions, maximum principles and global existence.