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In this paper, the Cauchy problem for nonstrictly hyperbolic systems of conservation laws modeling polymer flooding in enhanced oil recovery is studied, and a short proof of global existence of weak entropy solutions is obtained by using a new technique from the compensated compactness theorem coupled with the total variation estimate on one family of Riemann invariants. This work extends in some sense the previous works [T. Barkve, SIAM J. Appl. Math., 49 (1989), pp. 789--798; T. Johansen and R. Winther, SIAM J. Math. Anal., 19 (1988), pp. 541--566] about the global existence of weak solutions for the Riemann problem and by the author [J. Funct. Anal., 261 (2011), pp. 2797--2815] about the global weak solution of the Cauchy problem for an extended hyperbolic system of Keyfitz--Kranzer or Aw--Rascle type.

Chapter 7 On the Global Weak Solutions to a Variational Wave Equation

We consider weak solutions to a two-dimensional simplified Ericksen-Leslie system of compressible flow of nematic liquid crystals. An initial-boundary value problem is first studied in a bounded domain. By developing new techniques and estimates to overcome the difficulties induced by the supercritical nonlinearity in the equations of angular momentum on the direction field, and adapting the standard three-level approximation scheme and the weak convergence arguments for the compressible Navier-Stokes equations, we establish the global existence of weak solutions under a restriction imposed on the initial energy including the case of small initial energy. Then the Cauchy problem with large initial data is investigated, and we prove the global existence of large weak solutions by using the domain expansion technique and the rigidity theorem, provided that the second component of initial data of the direction field satisfies some geometric angle condition.

We study the existence of global weak solutions for Cauchy-Dirichlet problem for evolutional p-Laplacian systems. The initial data is belonging to the Sobolev space W1,p(Ω, ℝn). We use a varitional (like) method to treat the existence of a weak solution, this method seems somehow simply than the Galerkin method.

On a nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard/Navier-Stokes system with degenerate mobility and singular potential for incompressible fluids with different densities

We show the existence of global weak solutions to a general class of kinetic models of homogeneous incompressible dilute polymers. The main new feature of the model is the presence of a general implicit constitutive equation relating the viscous part of the Cauchy stress and the symmetric part of the velocity gradient. We consider implicit relations that generate maximal monotone (possibly multivalued) graphs, and the corresponding rate of dissipation is characterized by the sum of a Young function and its conjugate depending on and , respectively. Such a framework is very general and includes, among others, classical power-law fluids, stress power-law fluids, fluids with activation criteria of Bingham or Herschel–Bulkley type, and shear-rate dependent fluids with discontinuous viscosities as special cases. The appearance of and in all the assumptions characterizing the implicit relationship is fully symmetric. The elastic properties of the flow, characterizing the response of polymer macromolecules in the viscous solvent, are modeled by the elastic part of the Cauchy stress tensor, whose divergence appears on the right-hand side of the momentum equation, and which is defined by the Kramers expression involving the probability density function, associated with the random motion of the polymer molecules in the solvent. The probability density function satisfies a Fokker–Planck equation, which is nonlinearly coupled to the momentum equation. We establish long-time and large-data existence of weak solutions to such a system, completed by an initial condition and either a no-slip or Navier's slip boundary condition, by using properties of maximal monotone operators and Lipschitz approximations of Sobolev-space-valued Bochner functions via a weak compactness arguments based on the Div-Curl Lemma and Chacon's Biting Lemma. A key ingredient in the proof is the strong compactness in L 1 of the sequence of Galerkin approximations to the probability density function and of the associated sequence of approximations to the elastic part of the Cauchy stress tensor.

We show the existence of global weak solutions to the three-dimensional compressible primitive equations of atmospheric dynamics with degenerate viscosities. In analogy with the case of the compressible Navier-Stokes equations, the weak solutions satisfy the basic energy inequality, the Bresh-Desjardins entropy inequality and the Mellet-Vasseur estimate. These estimates play an important role in establishing the compactness of the vertical velocity of the approximating solutions, and therefore are essential to recover the vertical velocity in the weak solutions.

Global weak solutions to a two-dimensional compressible MHD equations of viscous non-resistive fluids

This paper concerns the existence of global weak solutions á la Leray for compressible Navier–Stokes–Fourier systems with periodic boundary conditions and the truncated virial pressure law which is assumed to be thermodynamically unstable. More precisely, the main novelty is that the pressure law is not assumed to be monotone with respect to the density. This provides the first global weak solutions result for the compressible Navier-Stokes-Fourier system with such kind of pressure law which is strongly used as a generalization of the perfect gas law. The paper is based on a new construction of approximate solutions through an iterative scheme and fixed point procedure which could be very helpful to design efficient numerical schemes. Note that our method involves the recent paper by the authors published in Nonlinearity (2021) for the compactness of the density when the temperature is given.

We consider a nonlinear integro-differential equation for prion proliferation that includes prion polymerization, polymer splitting, and polymer joining. The equation can be written as a quasilinear Cauchy problem. For bounded reaction rates we prove global existence and uniqueness of classical solutions by means of evolution operator theory. We also prove global existence of weak solutions for unbounded reaction rates by a compactness argument.

On the existence of global weak solutions for Vlasov-Poisson-Fokker-Planck systems

This work is devoted to proving existence of global weak solutions for a general isothermal model of capillary fluids derived by Dunn and Serrin (Arch Rational Mech Anal 88(2):95–133, 1985) which can be used as a phase transition model. We improve the results of Danchin and Desjardins (Annales de l’IHP, Analyse non linéaire 18:97–133, 2001) by showing the existence of global weak solution in dimension two for initial data in the energy space, close to a stable equilibrium and with specific choices on the capillary coefficients. In particular we are interested in capillary coefficients approximating a constant capillarity coefficient κ. To finish we show the existence of global weak solution in dimension one for a specific type of capillary coefficients with large initial data in the energy space.

A reformulation of the planetary geostrophic equations (PGEs) with the inviscid balance equation is proposed and the existence of global weak solutions is established, provided that the mechanical force satisfies an integral constraint. There is only one prognostic equation for the temperature field, and the velocity field is statically determined by the planetary geostrophic balance combined with the incompressibility condition. Furthermore, the velocity profile can be accurately represented as a function of the temperature gradient. In particular, the vertical velocity depends only on the first-order derivative of the temperature. As a result, the bound for the L∞ (0, t 1 ; L 2) ∩ L 2 (0, t 1 ; H 1) norm of the temperature field is sufficient to show the existence of the weak solution.

This work is devoted to the existence of weak solutions for m × m isotropic reaction-diffusion systems. This type of system appears in texture synthesis. The originality of this study persists in the fact that the non-linearities considered here involve the gradients of solutions with arbitrary growth and initial data are only in L 2 (Ω). For this reason, New techniques are needed to show the consistency of these models is that we present in this study showing the global existence of weak solutions. Mathematics Subject Classification: 35J20, 35J25, 35J65, 45H15

We consider the Dirichlet problem for a compressible two-fluid model in multi-dimensions. It consists of the continuity equations for each fluid and the momentum equations for the mixture. This model can be derived from the compressible two-fluid model with equal velocities (Bresch et al., in Arch Rational Mech Anal 196:599–629, 2010) and from a scaling limit of the Vlasov-Fokker-Planck/compressible Navier-Stokes (Mellet and Vasseur, Commun Math Phys 281(3):573–596, 2008) (see also the compressible Oldroyd-B model with stress diffusion (Barrett et al., Commun Math Sci 15:1265–1323, 2017). Another interesting connection is that it is formally the equations of compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flows without resistivity in two dimensions under the action of vertical magnetic field (Li and Sun, J Differ Equ 267(6): 3827–3851, 2019). Under weak assumptions on the initial data which can be discontinuous, unbounded and large as well as involve transition to pure single-phase points or regions, we show existence of global weak solutions with finite energy. The essential novelty of this work, compared with previous works on the same model, is that transition to each single-phase flow is allowed without any constraints between adiabatic constants or two densities. It means that one of the phases can vanish in a point while the other can persist. The lack of enough regularity for each densities brings up essential difficulties in the two-component pressure compared with the single-phase model, i.e., compressible Navier-Stokes equations. The key points to achieve the main result rely on the variables reduction technique for the pressure function, domain separation, and some new estimates. As a byproduct, we obtain the existence of global weak solutions to the compressible MHD system without resistivity in two dimensions under the action of non-negatively vertical magnetic field, which represents a step forward to the study of the global large solution to the compressible MHD system without resistivity.