The ultimate goal of these lectures is to present the ergodic theory of the Burgers equation with random force in noncompact setting. Developing such a theory has been considered a hard problem since the first publication on the randomly forced inviscid Burgers [EKMS00]. It was solved in a recent work [BCK] for the forcing of Poissonian type. The Burgers equation is a basic fluid dynamic model,...

Thin plate splines are utilized in the construction of a non-oscillatory finite volume method for the inviscid Burgers' equation which is a prototype nonlinear conservation law. To capture the sharp features that occur during numerical simulation, the method is implemented on an adaptive triangulation. An a posteriori error indicator is used to detect regions where the solution varies rapidly.

We consider a time discrete kinetic scheme (known as “transport collapse method”) for the inviscid Burgers equation ∂tu+ ∂x u 2 = 0. We prove the convergence of the scheme by using averaging lemmas without bounded variation estimate. Then, the extension of this result to the kinetic model of Brenier and Corrias is discussed.

It is shown that the inverse Lagrangian map for the solution of the Burgers equation (in the inviscid limit) with Brownian initial velocity presents a bifractality (phase transition) similar to that of the Devil’s staircase for the standard triadic Cantor set. Both heuristic and rigorous derivations are given. It is explained why artifacts can easily mask this phenomenon in numerical simulations.

We describe an approach to nonlocal, nonlinear advection in one dimension that extends the usual pointwise concepts to account for nonlocal contributions to the flux. The spatially nonlocal operators we consider do not involve derivatives. Instead, the spatial operator involves an integral that, in a distributional sense, reduces to a conventional nonlinear advective operator. In particular, we...

The high-order accuracy of Fourier method makes it the method of choice in many large scale simulations. We discuss here the stability of Fourier method for nonlinear evolution problems, focusing on the two prototypical cases of the inviscid Burgers’ equation and the multi-dimensional incompressible Euler equations. The Fourier method for such problems with quadratic nonlinearities comes in two...

Let F (z) = z−H(z) with order o(H(z)) ≥ 1 be a formal map from C to C and G(z) the formal inverse map of F (z). We first study the deformation Ft(z) = z − tH(z) of F (z) and its formal inverse Gt(z) = z + tNt(z). (Note that Gt=1(z) = G(z) when o(H(z)) ≥ 2.) We show that Nt(z) is the unique power series solution of a Cauchy problem of a PDE, from which we derive a recurrent formula for Gt(z). Se...

Let F (z) = z−H(z) with order o(H(z)) ≥ 1 be a formal map from C to C and G(z) the formal inverse map of F (z). We first study the deformation Ft(z) = z − tH(z) of F (z) and its formal inverse Gt(z) = z + tNt(z). (Note that Gt=1(z) = G(z) when o(H(z)) ≥ 2.) We show that Nt(z) is the unique power series solution of a Cauchy problem of a PDE, from which we derive a recurrent formula for Gt(z). Se...

We investigate solution properties of a class of evolutionary partial differential equations (PDEs) with viscous and inviscid regularization. An equation in this class of PDEs can be written as an evolution equation, involving only first-order spatial derivatives, coupled with the Helmholtz equation. A recently developed two-step iterative method (Chiu et al., JCP, 228, (2009), pp. 8034-8052) i...