Many physical processes are described by conservative quasilinear systems of equations that admit a supplementary independent conservation law. A typical example is the equations of incompressible fluid dynamics. If for basic equations the conservation laws of the momentum and the volume are chosen then the conservation law of the energy is an additional conservation law. In the present paper a...

1.1 Hysteresis Operators 3 1.2 The Duhem Model 13 1.3 Rheological Models of Elasto-plasticity 17 1.4 Discontinuous Hysteresis 35 1.5 Micromagnetism 45 1.6 Models of Hysteresis with Internal Variables 56 1.7 Genesis of Hysteresis and Coupling with PDEs 62 1.8 A Transport Equation with Hysteresis 69 1.9 A Quasilinear Parabolic PDE with Hysteresis 78 1.10 A Quasilinear Hyperbolic PDE with Hysteres...

We present a simple and easy-to-use Nash–Moser iteration theorem tailored for singular perturbation problems admitting a formal asymptotic expansion or other family of approximate solutions depending on a parameter ε → 0. The novel feature is to allow loss of powers of ε as well as the usual loss of derivatives in the solution operator for the associated linearized problem. We indicate the util...

The theory of nonlinear weakly hyperbolic equations was developed during the last decade in an astonishing way. Today we have a good overview about assumptions which guarantee local well posedness in spaces of smooth functions (C∞, Gevrey). But the situation is completely unclear in the case of Sobolev spaces. Examples from the linear theory show that in opposite to the strictly hyperbolic case...

In oil production it is crucial to find out properties of the ground from various measurements of geophysical fields. In secondary oil recovery oil is extracted by pumping in water (through injecting wells) and creating pressure which pumps out oil through production wells. Water/oil pressure at wells is monitored providing with an information to determine two important characterictics of mediu...

We show how existing models for the sedimentation of monodisperse flocculated suspensions and of polydisperse suspensions of rigid spheres differing in size can be combined to yield a new theory of the sedimentation processes of polydisperse suspensions forming compressible sediments (“sedimentation with compression” or “sedimentation-consolidation process”). For N solid particle species, this ...