Applied Math/PDE Seminar: Felipe Linares (IMPA, Brazil), 'Dispersive perturbations of Burgers and hyperbolic equations'

Event Date: 

Friday, June 14, 2013 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Event Location: 

  • 4607B South Hall

Event Contact: 

Carlos Garcia-Cervera

Email: cgarcia@math.ucsb.edu

Phone: 18055638873

The aim of this talk is to show how a weakly dispersive perturbation of the inviscid Burgers equation improve (enlarge) the space of resolution of the local Cauchy problem. We will review several problems arising from weak dispersive perturbations of nonlinear hyperbolic equations or systems.