Euler Alignment, Nonlinear Conservation Laws and the Pressure-less System

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Abstract

Partial Differential Equations play a pivotal role in a wide range of applications, facilitating the study of many questions in physics, geometry, meteorology, biology, economics, and engineering sciences, to name a few. This project aims to advance the current understanding of fundamental questions that arise in the context of three canonical classes of nonlinear partial differential equations, which model (i) emergent phenomena; (ii) conservation laws; and (iii) the pressure-less early universe model. While these three classes of evolution equations are well-understood in the one-dimensional spatial setting, the questions of existence, regularity and large-time behavior of solutions for the more realistic multi-dimensional models are mostly open. The plan of this project is to develop novel paradigms to address these questions with emphasis on the multi-dimensional setting. This project also involves mentoring graduate students who will be involved in this research. This project is concerned with the following time-dependent partial differential equations in multiple spatial dimensions. (i) Euler Alignment. The system of Euler Alignment arises as the large crowd dynamics of the Cucker-Smale alignment model. The goal is to study the open question of existence of multidimensional strong solutions, subject to sub-critical initial data, and their large-time behavior with short-range communication kernels. (ii) Nonlinear Conservation Laws. Nonlinear scalar conservation laws

Key facts

NSF award ID
2508407
Awardee
University of Maryland, College Park (MD)
SAM.gov UEI
NPU8ULVAAS23
PI
Eitan Tadmor
Primary program
01002526DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
All programs
Estimated total
$300,000
Funds obligated
$300,000
Transaction type
Standard Grant
Period
07/01/2025 → 06/30/2028