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Proefschrift Universiteit van Amsterdam. / Met lit. opg. - Met samenvatting in het Engels.

Dissertação (mestrado)-Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Física, Brasília, 2008. / Submitted by Mariana Fonseca Xavier Nunes (nanarteira@hotmail.com) on 2010-09-19T01:31:21Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2008_MunelarDeAssisFalcao.pdf: 1214186 bytes, checksum: 7d2db9e90793ece398c129387638d795 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Daniel Ribeiro(daniel@bce.unb.br) on 2010-12-16T23:52:28Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2008_MunelarDeAssisFalcao.pdf: 1214186 bytes, checksum: 7d2db9e90793ece398c129387638d795 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2010-12-16T23:52:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2008_MunelarDeAssisFalcao.pdf: 1214186 bytes, checksum: 7d2db9e90793ece398c129387638d795 (MD5) / A equacao de Burgers atualmente tem sido aplicada a varias areas do conhecimento cientifico, principalmente no estudo de formacao de estruturas no Universo. Sua relevancia vem aumentando a cada dia, devido `a riqueza de dados observacionais que atualmente existe na literatura moderna. Sua forma mais geral e conhecida como equacao generalizada de Burgers com ruido e foi proposta por Ribeiro e Peixoto de Faria (2005). Conhecer suas solucoes exatas e escritas de forma claraedemuitointeresseastrofisico. Comesseintuitoapresentamos, nestetrabalho, solucoes invariantes sob simetrias de Lie da equacao generalizada de Burgers sem o termo estocastico, obtidas a partir do pacote de analises de simetrias de equacoes diferenciais (SADE) escrito em MAPLE, desenvolvido no IF-UnB. Posteriormente, simulamos uma distribuicao de velocidades a partir de algumas solucoes invariantes escolhidasdentreas220obtidas, ecomparamoscomumadistribuicaodevelocidades peculiares observacionais. _________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT / The Burgers equation has been applied to several fields of scientific knowledge, and particularly to the study of formation of structures in Universe. His relevancestillincreases, duetothewealthofobservationaldatainmodernliterature. His most general form is the generalized Burgers equation with noise as proposed for Ribeiro and Peixoto de Faria [24]. The knowledge of analytical solutions is of great interest in astrophysics. With this objective we present, in this work, invariant solutions under Lie symmetries of the generalized Burgers equation without noise using algebraic computation, and the package Symmetry Analysis of Di?erential Equations (SADE), written in MAPLE. Subsequently, we simulate a distribution of velocitiesfromsomeinvariants solutionschosen amongthoseobtained, andcorrelate with a distribution of observational peculiar velocities.

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Tese de doutoramento. Ciências da Engenharia. 2006. Faculdade de Engenharia. Universidade do Porto, Instituto Superior Técnico. Universidade Técnica de Lisboa

Burgers’ Equation ut + cuux = νuxx is a nonlinear partial differential equation which arises in models of traffic and fluid flow. It is perhaps the simplest equation describing waves under the influence of diffusion. We consider the large time behavior of solutions with exponentially localized initial conditions, analyzing the rate of convergence to a known self similar single-hump solution. We use the Cole-Hopf Transformation to convert the problem into a heat equation problem with exponentially localized initial conditions. The solution to this problem converges to a Gaussian. We then find an optimal Gaussian approximation which is accurate to order t−2. Transforming back to Burgers’ Equation yields a solution accurate to order t−2.

We analyze a pair of nonlinear PDEs describing viscoelastic fluid flow in one dimension. We give a summary of the physical derivation and nondimensionlize the PDE system. Based on the boundary conditions and parameters, we are able to classify three different categories of traveling wave solutions, consistent with the results in [?]. We extend this work by analyzing the stability of the traveling waves. We thoroughly describe the numerical schemes and software program, VISCO, that were designed specifically to analyze the model we study in this paper. Our simulations lead us to conjecture that the traveling wave solutions found in [?] are globally stable for all sets of initial conditions with the appropriate asymptotic boundary conditions. We are able give some analytical evidence in support of this hypothesis but are unsuccessful in providing a complete proof.

Zugl.: Bochum, Universiẗat, Diss., 2005.