Nonlinear Cosmology Program 2006 @ Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur

Nonlinear Cosmology Workshop

Nice, January 25–27, 2006


Mass transport in adhesive flows

Andrei SOBOLEVSKII, U. Moscow & IIEPT, Moscow

Inertial flow of a continuous fluid generically has to develop singularities when and where trajectories of particles cross. Defining inertial motion of the fluid beyond singularities, motivated by application in Newtonian cosmology, thus becomes a nontrivial problem. Two topics will be discussed: (i) Bogaevski's recent result (math-ph/0407073) on transport within singular manifolds of inviscid Burgers flow and its extension to more general quasilinear equations of the Burgers/Hamilton-Jacobi type and (ii) variational formulations of zero-pressure gas dynamics in one and multiple dimensions.


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