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We are concerned with the construction of Sommerfeld-type radiation conditions for stationary acoustic oscillations in inhomogeneous media with densities independent of r. It is shown that such radiation conditions exist iff there exists a one-parameter family of closed homothetic star-shaped (with respect to origin) wave fronts. These radiation conditions select the same solutions of the reduced wave equation as the limiting absorption principle.

Six exact solutions are obtained in the general scalar-tensor theory of gravity related to spatially homogeneous wave-like models of the Universe. Wave-like spacetime models allow the existence of privileged coordinate systems where the eikonal equation and the Hamilton–Jacobi equation of test particles can be integrated by the method of complete separation of variables with the separation of isotropic (wave) variables on which the space metric depends (non-ignored variables). An explicit form of the scalar field and two functions of the scalar field that are part of the general scalar-tensor theory of gravity are found. The explicit form of the eikonal function and the action function for test particles in the considered models is given. The obtained solutions are of type III according to the Bianchi classification and type N according to the Petrov classification. Wave-like spatially homogeneous spacetime models can describe primordial gravitational waves of the Universe.

We consider a pattern-forming system in two space dimensions defined by an energy . The functional models strong phase separation in AB diblock copolymer melts, and patterns are represented by {0, 1}-valued functions; the values 0 and 1 correspond to the A and B phases. The parameter ε is the ratio between the intrinsic, material length-scale and the scale of the domain Ω. We show that in the limit ε → 0 any sequence u_ε of patterns with uniformly bounded energy becomes stripe-like: the pattern becomes locally one-dimensional and resembles a periodic stripe pattern of periodicity O(ε). In the limit the stripes become uniform in width and increasingly straight.

Our results are formulated as a convergence theorem, which states that the functional Gamma-converges to a limit functional . This limit functional is defined on fields of rank-one projections, which represent the local direction of the stripe pattern. The functional is only finite if the projection field solves a version of the Eikonal equation, and in that case it is the L²-norm of the divergence of the projection field, or equivalently the L²-norm of the curvature of the field.

At the level of patterns the converging objects are the jump measures |∇_uε| combined with the projection fields corresponding to the tangents to the jump set. The central inequality from Peletier and Röger, Arch. Rational Mech. Anal.193 (2009) 475–537, provides the initial estimate and leads to weak measure-function pair convergence. We obtain strong convergence by exploiting the non-intersection property of the jump set.

We study a new variant of mathematical prediction-correction model for crowd motion. The prediction phase is handled by a transport equation where the vector field is computed via an eikonal equation $\parallel \nabla \phi \parallel =f$, with a positive continuous function $f$ connected to the speed of the spontaneous travel. The correction phase is handled by a new version of the minimum flow problem. This model is flexible and can take into account different types of interactions between the agents, from gradient flow in Wassersetin space to granular type dynamics like in sandpile. Furthermore, different boundary conditions can be used, such as non-homogeneous Dirichlet (e.g. outings with different exit-cost penalty) and Neumann boundary conditions (e.g. entrances with different rates). Combining finite volume method for the transport equation and Chambolle–Pock’s primal dual algorithm for the eikonal equation and minimum flow problem, we present numerical simulations to demonstrate the behavior in different scenarios.

We derive a new formulation of the compressible Euler equations exhibiting remarkable structures, including surprisingly good null structures. The new formulation comprises covariant wave equations for the Cartesian components of the velocity and the logarithmic density coupled to transport equations for the Cartesian components of the specific vorticity, defined to be vorticity divided by density. The equations allow one to use the full power of the geometric vectorfield method in treating the “wave part” of the system. A crucial feature of the new formulation is that all derivative-quadratic inhomogeneous terms verify the strong null condition. The latter is a nonlinear condition signifying the complete absence of nonlinear interactions involving more than one differentiation in a direction transversal to the acoustic characteristics. Moreover, the same good structures are found in the equations verified by the Euclidean divergence and curl of the specific vorticity. This is important because one needs to combine estimates for the divergence and curl with elliptic estimates to obtain sufficient regularity for the specific vorticity, whose derivatives appear as inhomogeneous terms in the wave equations. The structures described above collectively open the door for our companion results, in which we exhibit a stable regime of initially smooth solutions that develop a shock singularity. In particular, the first Cartesian coordinate partial derivatives of the velocity and density blow up, while relative to a system of geometric coordinates adapted to the acoustic characteristics, the solution (including the vorticity) remains many times differentiable, all the way up to the shock. The good null structures, which are often associated with global solutions, are in fact key to proving that the shock singularity forms. Our secondary goal in this paper is to provide an overview of the central role that the structures play in the proof.

In this survey, we present several results on the regularizing effect, rigidity and approximation of 2D unit-length divergence-free vector fields. We develop the concept of entropy (coming from scalar conservation laws) in order to analyze singularities of such vector fields. In particular, based on entropies, we characterize lower semicontinuous line-energies in 2D and we study by Γ-convergence method the associated regularizing models (like the 2D Aviles–Giga and the 3D Bloch wall models). We also present some applications to the analysis of pattern formation in micromagnetics. In particular, we describe domain walls in the thin ferromagnetic films (e.g. symmetric Néel walls, asymmetric Néel walls, asymmetric Bloch walls) together with interior and boundary vortices.

Some classes of exact solutions of eikonal equation has been found by using some decomposition method. There is also prsented its application to quantum mechanics.