MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM
Speaker: Chongchun Zeng
Title: Energy Estimates of Free Boundary Problems
of the Euler Equation
Affiliation: Georgia Institute of Technology
Date: Friday, April 14, 2006.
Place and Time: Room 101 - Love Building, 3:35-4:30 pm.
Refreshments: Room 204 - Love Building, 3:00 pm.
Abstract.
We consider the evolution of a droplet of inviscid fluid in the
vacuum without gravity, including both cases when there is and there is
not surface tension. The evolution of the fluid boundary and the velocity
field is determined by the free boundary problem of the Euler's equation.
Viewing this as a Hamiltonian PDE, we define a scale of functionals as
"energies". These energies bound high Sobolev norms of the velocity field
as well as the mean curvature of the fluid boundary. Thus we establish the
regularity of the solutions for a short time depending on the initial data.
Using these estimates, we prove that, as the surface tension goes to zero,
the small surface tension problem converges to the zero surface tension
problem considered by S. Wu and by D. Christodoulou and H. Lindblad. This
is a joint work with J. Shatah.
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