Nonlinear Stability of Relativistic Vortex Sheets in Two Spatial Dimensions
speaker: Paolo Secchi (DICATAM, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Architettura, Territorio, Ambiente e di Matematica, Università di Brescia)abstract: In this talk we consider the nonlinear stability of vortex sheets for the relativistic Euler equations in three-dimensional Minkowski spacetime. This is a nonlinear hyperbolic problem with a characteristic free boundary. To solve the problem, we introduce a new symmetrization by choosing appropriate functions as primary unknowns. A necessary and sufficient condition for the weakly linear stability of relativistic vortex sheets is obtained by analyzing the roots of the Lopatinskii determinant associated to the constant coefficient linearized problem. Under this stability condition, we show that the variable coefficient linearized problem obeys an energy estimate with a loss of derivatives. The construction of certain weight functions plays a crucial role in absorbing error terms caused by microlocalization. Based on the weakly linear stability result, we establish the existence and nonlinear stability of relativistic vortex sheets under small initial perturbations by a Nash-Moser iteration scheme.
timetable:
Tue 6 Feb, 14:30 - 15:05, Aula Dini
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