Explosion géométrique pour certaines équations d'ondes non linéaires
Focusing and absorption of nonlinear oscillations
Focusing of a pulse with arbitrary phase shift for a nonlinear wave equation
We consider a system of two linear conservative wave equations, with a nonlinear coupling, in space dimension three. Spherical pulse like initial data cause focusing at the origin in the limit of short wavelength. Because the equations are conservative, the caustic crossing is not trivial, and we analyze it for particular initial data. It turns out that the phase shift between the incoming wave (before the focus) and the outgoing wave (past the focus) behaves like , where stands for the wavelength....
Focusing of spherical nonlinear pulses in R1+3. II. Nonlinear caustic.
We study spherical pulse like families of solutions to semilinear wave equattions in space time of dimension 1+3 as the pulses focus at a point and emerge outgoing. We emphasize the scales for which the incoming and outgoing waves behave linearly but the nonlinearity has a strong effect at the focus. The focus crossing is described by a scattering operator for the semilinear equation, which broadens the pulses. The relative errors in our approximate solutions are small in the L∞ norm.
Further thoughts on a focusing property of the ellipse.
Geometric optics and instability for NLS and Davey-Stewartson models
We study the interaction of (slowly modulated) high frequency waves for multi-dimensional nonlinear Schrödinger equations with Gauge invariant power-law nonlinearities and nonlocal perturbations. The model includes the Davey-Stewartson system in its elliptic-elliptic and hyperbolic-elliptic variants. Our analysis reveals a new localization phenomenon for nonlocal perturbations in the high frequency regime and allows us to infer strong instability results on the Cauchy problem in negative order Sobolev...
Geometric optics expansions with amplification for hyperbolic boundary value problems: Linear problems
We compute and justify rigorous geometric optics expansions for linear hyperbolic boundary value problems that do not satisfy the uniform Lopatinskii condition. We exhibit an amplification phenomenon for the reflection of small high frequency oscillations at the boundary. Our analysis has two important consequences for such hyperbolic boundary value problems. Firstly, we make precise the optimal energy estimate in Sobolev spaces showing that losses of derivatives must occur from the source terms...
GO++ : a modular lagrangian/eulerian software for Hamilton Jacobi equations of geometric optics type
We describe both the classical lagrangian and the Eulerian methods for first order Hamilton–Jacobi equations of geometric optic type. We then explain the basic structure of the software and how new solvers/models can be added to it. A selection of numerical examples are presented.
GO++: A modular Lagrangian/Eulerian software for Hamilton Jacobi equations of geometric optics type
We describe both the classical Lagrangian and the Eulerian methods for first order Hamilton–Jacobi equations of geometric optic type. We then explain the basic structure of the software and how new solvers/models can be added to it. A selection of numerical examples are presented.
High frequency asymptotic solutions of the reduced wave equation on infinite regions with nonconvex boundaries.
High frequency limit of the Helmholtz equations.
We derive the high frequency limit of the Helmholtz equations in terms of quadratic observables. We prove that it can be written as a stationary Liouville equation with source terms. Our method is based on the Wigner Transform, which is a classical tool for evolution dispersive equations. We extend its use to the stationary case after an appropriate scaling of the Helmholtz equation. Several specific difficulties arise here; first, the identification of the source term ( which does not share the...
Hyperbolic Cauchy problem and Leray's residue formula
We give an algebraic description of (wave) fronts that appear in strictly hyperbolic Cauchy problems. A concrete form of a defining function of the wave front issued from the initial algebraic variety is obtained with the aid of Gauss-Manin systems satisfied by Leray's residues.
Interactions trilinéaires résonantes
Inverse boundary value problems for partial differential equations.
Justification de l'optique géométrique non linéaire pour un système de lois de conservation
La théorie des catastrophes. III. Caustiques de l'optique géométrique
Lichtstärke-Indikatrizen für isophengische Flächenelemente mit Trägerpunkten auf ebenen glatten Kurven
Mesures semi-classiques et mesures de défaut
Nonlinear Pulse Propagation
This talk gives a brief review of some recent progress in the asymptotic analysis of short pulse solutions of nonlinear hyperbolic partial differential equations. This includes descriptions on the scales of geometric optics and diffractive geometric optics, and also studies of special situations where pulses passing through focal points can be analysed.
Numerical resolution of an “unbalanced” mass transport problem
We introduce a modification of the Monge–Kantorovitch problem of exponent 2 which accommodates non balanced initial and final densities. The augmented lagrangian numerical method introduced in [6] is adapted to this “unbalanced” problem. We illustrate the usability of this method on an idealized error estimation problem in meteorology.