Asymptotic variational wave equations

DOI10.1007/S00205-006-0014-8MaRDI QIDQ1006794zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Alberto Bressan, Ping Zhang, Yuxi Zheng

Publication date 26 March 2009

Published in Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0502124

zbMATH Keywords

initial-boundary value problemwell-posednesscontractive mapnonlinear variational wave equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dependence of solutions to PDEs on initial and/or boundary data and/or on parameters of PDEs (35B30) Initial value problems for second-order hyperbolic equations (35L15) Initial-boundary value problems for second-order hyperbolic equations (35L20) Second-order nonlinear hyperbolic equations (35L70)

Abstract: We investigate the equation $(u_t+(f(u){)}_x{)}_x=f^{″}(u)(u_x{)}^2/2$ where $f(u)$ is a given smooth function. Typically $f(u)=u^2/2$ or $u^3/3$. This equation models unidirectional and weakly nonlinear waves for the variational wave equation $u_{tt}-c(u)(c(u)u_x{)}_x=0$ which models some liquid crystals with a natural sinusoidal $c$. The equation itself is also the Euler-Lagrange equation of a variational problem. Two natural classes of solutions can be associated with this equation. A conservative solution will preserve its energy in time, while a dissipative weak solution loses energy at the time when singularities appear. Conservative solutions are globally defined, forward and backward in time, and preserve interesting geometric features, such as the Hamiltonian structure. On the other hand, dissipative solutions appear to be more natural from the physical point of view. We establish the well-posedness of the Cauchy problem within the class of conservative solutions, for initial data having finite energy and assuming that the flux function $f$ has Lipschitz continuous second-order derivative. In the case where $f$ is convex, the Cauchy problem is well-posed also within the class of dissipative solutions. However, when $f$ is not convex, we show that the dissipative solutions do not depend continuously on the initial data.

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