The Initial Value Problem for the Euler Equations of Incompressible Fluids Viewed as a Concave Maximization Problem
The Initial Value Problem for the Euler Equations of Incompressible Fluids Viewed as a Concave Maximization Problem
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不可压缩流体欧拉方程的初值问题被视为凹最大化问题
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2017
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2.4
通讯作者:
Y. Brenier
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作者:
Y. Brenier
We consider the Euler equations of incompressible fluids (Arnold and Khesin in Topological methods in hydrodynamics, Springer, Berlin, 1998; Lions in Mathematical topics in fluid mechanics, vol 1. Incompressible models, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1996) and attempt to solve the initial value problem with the help of a concave maximization problem. We show that this problem, which shares a similar structure with the optimal transport problem with quadratic cost, in its “Benamou–Brenier” formulation (Ambrosio et al. in Gradient flows in metric spaces and in the space of probability measures, Birkhäuser, 2008; Benamou and Brenier in Numer Math 84:375–393, 2000; Otto and Westdickenberg in SIAM J Math Anal 37:1227–1255, 2005; Villani in Topics in optimal transportation, AMS, Providence, 2003), always admits a relaxed solution that can be interpreted in terms of sub–solution of the Euler equations in the sense of convex integration theory (De Lellis et al. in Ann Math 170(2):1417–1436, 2009). This idea is extended to the class of “conservation laws with convex entropy” considered in Dafermos’ book (Dafermos in Hyperbolic conservation laws in continuum physics, Springer, Berlin, 2000). In all cases, it is shown that any smooth solution to the initial value problem can be recovered from such a maximization problem, at least for short times. Finally, in the very simple case of the so-called inviscid Burgers equation, it is shown that every entropy solution, in the sense of Kruzhkov, can be recovered without any restriction on the time interval.