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Seminar

Kinetic shock profiles for the Landau equation

Speaker
Dallas Albritton (UW Madison)
Date
Tue, May 21 2024, 4:00pm
Location
384H

Abstract: Compressible Euler solutions develop jump discontinuities known as shocks. However, physical shocks are not, strictly speaking, discontinuous. Rather, they exhibit an internal structure which, in certain regimes, can be represented by a smooth function, the shock profile. We demonstrate the existence of weak shock profiles to the kinetic Landau equation. Joint work with Matthew Novack (Purdue University) and Jacob Bedrossian (UCLA).