Séminaire Analyse non linéaire et EDP

We study global behavior of the nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation with a focusing cubic power in three dimensions, in the energy space under the restriction of radial symmetry and an energy upper bound slightly above that of the ground state. We give a complete classification of the solutions into 9 non-empty sets according to whether they blow-up, scatter to 0, or scatter to the ground states, in the forward and backward time directions, and the splitting is given in terms of the stable and the unstable manifoldsof the ground states. This […]

We present a variational model for quasistatic evolutions of brittle cracks in hyperelastic bodies, in the context of finite elasticity.All existence results on this subject that can be found in the mathematical literature were obtained using energy densities with polynomial growth. This is not compatible with the standard assumption in finite elasticity that the strain energy diverges as the determinant of the deformation gradient tends to zero. On the contrary, we consider a wide class of energy densities satisfying this property

We consider an elliptic system with variational structure. After making some general remarks, we focus on potentials that possess several global minima and are invariant under a finite reflection group G. We establish existence of G-equivariant entire solutions connecting the global minima.

We present recent results with B. Texier developing a rigorous nonlinear theory of stability and bifurcation of strong detonation waves of the full reacting Navier-Stokes (rNS) equations, based on natural spectral stability/bifurcation conditions. We discuss in parallel recent singular perturbation results showing that in the small viscosity limit these conditions reduce to the corresponding conditions for the ZND, or reacting Euler, equations that are more commonly studied in the detonation literature. This yields immediately numerical verification of the (rNS) conditions through the voluminous numerical literature on (ZND).

In this paper, we consider the global wellposedness of the 3-D incompressible anisotropic Navier-Stokes equations with initial data in the critical Besov-Sobolev type spaces. This is partially joint work with J. Y. Chemin, Guilong GUI and M. Paicu.

I shall talk about some regularity results for the ultraparabolic equation, in particular, the C^{alpha}$ regularity of weak solutions. The problem arises from the Prandtl's boundary layer system under the Crocco transformation. I shall also report some recent results on the backward uniqueness of ultraparabolic equations.