Applied Math Seminar
Spring Quarter 2009
3:15 p.m.
Sloan Mathematics Corner
Building 380, Room 380-C


Friday, April 24, 2009

Steve Shkoller
Mathematics
University of California at Davis

A priori estimates for the free-boundary 3-D compressible Euler equations in physical vacuum


Abstract:

We prove a priori estimates for the three-dimensional compressible Euler equations with moving physical vacuum boundary. The vacuum condition necessitates the vanishing of the pressure, and hence density, on the dynamic boundary, which creates a degenerate and characteristic hyperbolic free-boundary system to which standard methods of symmetrizable hyperbolic equations cannot be applied. This is in collaboration with D. Coutand and H. Lindblad.