Baver Okutmustur

Philippe G. LeFloch, Hasan Makhlof, Baver Okutmustur

Within the class of nonlinear hyperbolic balance laws posed on a curved spacetime (endowed with a volume form), we identify a hyperbolic balance law that enjoys the same Lorentz invariance property as the one satisfied by the Euler equations of relativistic compressible fluids. This model is unique up to normalization and converges to the standard inviscid Burgers equation in the limit of infinite light speed. Furthermore, from the Euler system of relativistic compressible flows on a curved background, we derive, both, the standard inviscid Burgers equation and our relativistic generalizations. The proposed models are referred to as relativistic Burgers equations on curved spacetimes and provide us with simple models on which numerical methods can be developed and analyzed. Next, we introduce a finite volume scheme for the approximation of discontinuous solutions to these relativistic Burgers equations. Our scheme is formulated geometrically and is consistent with the natural divergence form of the balance laws under consideration. It applies to weak solutions containing shock waves and, most importantly, is well-balanced in the sense that it preserves steady solutions. Numerical experiments are presented which demonstrate the convergence of the proposed finite volume scheme and its relevance for computing entropy solutions on a curved background.

Philippe G. LeFloch, Baver Okutmustur

We consider nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws, posed on a differential (n+1)-manifold with boundary referred to as a spacetime, and in which the "flux" is defined as a flux field of n-forms depending on a parameter (the unknown variable). We introduce a formulation of the initial and boundary value problem which is geometric in nature and is more natural than the vector field approach recently developed for Riemannian manifolds. Our main assumption on the manifold and the flux field is a global hyperbolicity condition, which provides a global time-orientation as is standard in Lorentzian geometry and general relativity. Assuming that the manifold admits a foliation by compact slices, we establish the existence of a semi-group of entropy solutions. Moreover, given any two hypersurfaces with one lying in the future of the other, we establish a "contraction" property which compares two entropy solutions, in a (geometrically natural) distance equivalent to the L1 distance. To carry out the proofs, we rely on a new version of the finite volume method, which only requires the knowledge of the given n-volume form structure on the (n+1)-manifold and involves the {\sl total flux} across faces of the elements of the triangulations, only, rather than the product of a numerical flux times the measure of that face.

Philippe G. LeFloch, Wladimir Neves, Baver Okutmustur

Following Ben-Artzi and LeFloch, we consider nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws posed on a Riemannian manifold, and we establish an L1-error estimate for a class of finite volume schemes allowing for the approximation of entropy solutions to the initial value problem. The error in the L1 norm is of order h^(1/4) at most, where h represents the maximal diameter of elements in the family of geodesic triangulations. The proof relies on a suitable generalization of Cockburn, Coquel, and LeFloch's theory which was originally developed in the Euclidian setting. We extent the arguments to curved manifolds, by taking into account the effects to the geometry and overcoming several new technical difficulties.

Philippe G. LeFloch, Baver Okutmustur

We introduce a formulation of the initial and boundary value problem for nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws posed on a differential manifold endowed with a volume form, possibly with a boundary; in particular, this includes the important case of Lorentzian manifolds. Only limited regularity is assumed on the geometry of the manifold. For this problem, we establish the existence and uniqueness of an L1 semi-group of weak solutions satisfying suitable entropy and boundary conditions.

Baver Okutmustur, Tuba Ceylan

The inviscid Burgers equation is one of the simplest nonlinear hyperbolic conservation law which provides a variety examples for many topics in nonlinear partial differential equations such as wave propagation, shocks and perturbation, and it can easily be derived by the Euler equations of compressible fluids by imposing zero pressure in the given system. Recently, several versions of the relativistic Burgers equations have been derived on different geometries such as Minkowski (flat), Schwarzshild and FLRW spacetimes by LeFloch and his collaborators. In this paper, we consider a family member of the FLRW spacetime so-called the de Sitter background, introduce some important features of this spacetime geometry with its metric and derive the relativistic Burgers equation on it. The Euler system of equations on the de Sitter spacetime can be found by a known process by using the Christoffel symbols and tensors for perfect fluids. We applied the usual techniques used for the Schwarzshild and FLRW spacetimes in order to derive the relativistic Burgers equation from the vanishing pressure Euler system on the de Sitter background. We observed that the model admits static solutions. In the final part, we examined several numerical illustrations of the given model through a finite volume approximation based on the paper by LeFloch et al. The effect of the cosmological constant is also numerically analysed in this part. Furthermore, a comparison of the static solution with the Lax Friedrichs scheme is implemented so that the results demonstrate the efficiency and robustness of the finite volume scheme for the derived model