Antisymmetric Hamiltonians: Variational resolutions for Navier-Stokes and other nonlinear evolutions

DOI10.1002/CPA.20176zbMATH Open1119.35048arXivmath/0503575OpenAlexW2594713164MaRDI QIDQ3437009FDOQ3437009

Authors: Nassif Ghoussoub 

Publication date: 11 May 2007

Published in: Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The theory of anti-selfdual (ASD) Lagrangians developed in cite{G2} allows a variational resolution for equations of the form $Lambdau+Au+partialphi(u)+f=0$ where $phi$ is a convex lower-semi-continuous function on a reflexive Banach space $X$, $fin{X}^{\ast }$, $A:D(A)subsetXo{X}^{\ast }$ is a positive linear operator and where $Lambda:D(Lambda)subsetXo{X}^{\ast }$ is a non-linear operator that satisfies suitable continuity and anti-symmetry properties. ASD Lagrangians on path spaces also yield variational resolutions for nonlinear evolution equations of the form $dotu(t)+Lambdau(t)+Au(t)+fin-partialphi(u(t))$ starting at $u(0)=u_0$. In both stationary and dynamic cases, the equations associated to the proposed variational principles are not derived from the fact they are critical points of the action functional, but because they are also zeroes of the Lagrangian itself.The approach has many applications, in particular to Navier-Stokes type equations and to the differential systems of hydrodynamics, magnetohydrodynamics and thermohydraulics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0503575

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zbMATH Keywords

Navier-Stokes equationsnonlinear elliptic equationnonlinear Schrödinger equationsnonlinear variational principleantisymmetric Hamiltoniancomplex Ginzburg-Landau initial-value problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Navier-Stokes equations (35Q30) Variational methods applied to PDEs (35A15) NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) Variational principles of physics (49S05) Second-order elliptic equations (35J15)

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