On dynamics of Lagrangian trajectories for Hamilton-Jacobi equations

DOI10.1007/S00205-015-0910-XzbMATH Open1333.35201arXiv1211.7084OpenAlexW1858951403MaRDI QIDQ5962875FDOQ5962875

K. Khanin, Andrei Sobolevski

Publication date: 25 February 2016

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

Abstract: Characteristic curves of a Hamilton-Jacobi equation can be seen as action minimizing trajectories of fluid particles. However this description is valid only for smooth solutions. For nonsmooth "viscosity" solutions, which give rise to discontinuous velocity fields, this picture holds only up to the moment when trajectories hit a shock and cease to minimize the Lagrangian action. In this paper we discuss two physically meaningful regularisation procedures, one corresponding to vanishing viscosity and another to weak noise limit. We show that for any convex Hamiltonian, a viscous regularization allows to construct a nonsmooth flow that extends particle trajectories and determines dynamics inside the shock manifolds. This flow consists of integral curves of a particular "effective" velocity field, which is uniquely defined everywhere in the flow domain and is discontinuous on shock manifolds. The effective velocity field arising in the weak noise limit is generally non-unique and different from the viscous one, but in both cases there is a fundamental self-consistency condition constraining the dynamics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.7084

zbMATH Keywords

regularizationshockHamilton-Jacobi equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Hamilton-Jacobi equations (35F21) Shock waves and blast waves in fluid mechanics (76L05)

Cites Work

• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• The geometry of optimal transportation
• Optimal Transport
• Convex Analysis
• Propagation of singularities along broken characteristics
• User’s guide to viscosity solutions of second order partial differential equations
• Semiconcave functions, Hamilton-Jacobi equations, and optimal control
• Singular dynamics for semiconcave functions
• Invariant measures for Burgers equation with stochastic forcing
• Hyperbolic systems of conservation laws II
• The partial differential equation u_t + uu_x = μ_xx
• Weak solutions of nonlinear hyperbolic equations and their numerical computation
• Shock waves for the Burgers equation and curvatures of diffeomorphism groups
• Théorème KAM faible et théorie de Mather sur les systèmes lagrangiens
• Discontinuous gradient differential equations and trajectories in the calculus of variations
• Particle dynamics inside shocks in Hamilton–Jacobi equations
• Perestroikas of shocks and singularities of minimum functions

Cited In (21)

• Lagrangian-Hamiltonian formulation for stationary flows of some class of nonlinear dynamical systems
• Detailed description of the evolution mechanism for singularities in the system of pressureless gas dynamics
• Generation of singularities from the initial datum for Hamilton-Jacobi equations
• Excess action and broken characteristics for Hamilton-Jacobi equations
• On model two-dimensional pressureless gas flows: variational description and numerical algorithm based on adhesion dynamics
• Singularities of solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi equations
• Spontaneous stochasticity and anomalous dissipation for Burgers equation
• Local strict singular characteristics: Cauchy problem with smooth initial data
• Control methods in hyperbolic PDEs. Abstracts from the workshop held November 5--10, 2023
• Propagation of singularities of Moreau envelopes and distance functions in a Hilbert space
• Local singular characteristics on \(\mathbb{R}^2\)
• Lagrangian flows and the one-dimensional Peano phenomenon for ODEs
• Local strict singular characteristics. II: Existence for stationary equations on \(\mathbb{R}^2\)
• On the evolution of the hierarchy of shock waves in a two-dimensional Isobaric medium
• Lagrangian dynamics on matched pairs
• Geometric hydrodynamics in open problems
• Global propagation of singularities for discounted Hamilton-Jacobi equations
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Generalized characteristics and Lax-Oleinik operators: global theory
• Emergence of a hierarchy of singularities in zero-pressure media. Two-dimensional case
• A new proof of indefinite propagation of singularities for a Hamilton-Jacobi equation

This page was built for publication: On dynamics of Lagrangian trajectories for Hamilton-Jacobi equations

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q5962875)