The Compressible boundary layer and the Boltzmann equation

We consider the flow of ideal gas in half space described by the system of compressible Navier-Stokes equations. We apply the Prandtl scaling and we obtain the system of compressible Prandtl equations. In this article, a modification of the classical Chapman-Enskog method is proposed, which allows us to derive the system of compressible Prandtl equations directly from the Boltzmann equation without the use of the Knudsen-layer correction. Different types of boundary conditions are discussed.     

New indirect scalar boundary integral equation formulas for the biharmonic equation

We derive scalar boundary integral equation formulas for both interior and exterior biharmonic equations with the Dirichlet boundary data. They are based on indirect boundary integral equation formulas, so-called the Chakrabarty and Almansi formulas. The scalar formulas are derived through an unconventional variational approach. The unique solvability results of the formulas are also obtained.     

Nonclassical boundary value problem for the transport equation

We consider a nonclassical boundary value problem for the transport equation. The particle transport process is described by a stationary linear integro-differential equation, and the outgoing particle flux density on some part of the boundary is specified as the boundary condition. We find the particle flux density for a given outgoing flux and known coefficients of the equation. We show that, under some restrictions on the medium, there exists a unique solution of the problem, which can be represented by an infinite convergent series.     

Numerical recovery of Robin boundary from boundary measurements for the Laplace equation

Based on an integral equation formulation, we present numerical methods for the inverse problem of recovering part of the domain boundary from boundary measurements of solutions to the Laplace equation on an accessible part of the boundary.     

The Abreu equation with degenerated boundary conditions

The Abreu equation is a fully nonlinear 4th order partial differential equation that arises from the study of the extremal metrics on toric manifolds. We study the Dirichlet problem of the Abreu equation with degenerated boundary conditions. The solutions provide the Kähler metrics of constant scalar curvature on the complex torus.     

Moving boundary value problems for the wave equation

We study certain boundary value problems for the one-dimensional wave equation posed in a time-dependent domain. The approach we propose is based on a general transform method for solving boundary value problems for integrable nonlinear PDE in two variables, that has been applied extensively to the study of linear parabolic and elliptic equations. Here we analyse the wave equation as a simple illustrative example to discuss the particular features of this method in the context of linear hyperbolic PDEs, which have not been studied before in this framework.     

A boundary integral equation procedure for the mixed boundary value problem of the vector helmholtz equation

A boundary integral method is developed for the mixed boundary value problem for the vector Helmholtz equation in R³. The obtained boundary integral equations for the unknown Cauchy data build a strong elliptic system of pseudodifferential equations which can therefore be used for numerical computations using Galerkin's procedure. We show existence, uniqueness and regularity of the solution of the integral equations. Especially we give the local "edge" behavior of the solution near the submanifold which divides the Dirichlet boundary from the Neumann boundary     

A boundary integral equation for the transmission eigenvalue problem for Maxwell equation

We propose a new integral equation formulation to characterize and compute transmission eigenvalues in electromagnetic scattering. As opposed to the approach that was recently developed by Cakoni, Haddar and Meng (2015) which relies on a two‐by‐two system of boundary integral equations, our analysis is based on only one integral equation in terms of the electric‐to‐magnetic boundary trace operator that results in a simplification of the theory and in a considerable reduction of computational costs. We establish Fredholm properties of the integral operators and their analytic dependence on the wave number. Further, we use the numerical algorithm for analytic nonlinear eigenvalue problems that was recently proposed by Beyn (2012) for the numerical computation of the transmission eigenvalues via this new integral equation.     

Collocation method for the natural boundary integral equation

In this work, we construct the Legendre wavelet and apply it to investigate the numerical solution of the natural boundary integral equation of the Laplace equation in the upper half-plane by the collocation method. In our algorithm the coefficient matrix of the linear algebraic system is sparse when the order of the matrix is large. Two test examples show that our algorithm yields very accurate results at less computational cost.     

On the Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation

We study a modification of the Vlasov-Poisson equation, obtained by adding a diffusion term with respect to velocity. It describes, from a physical point of view, a plasma in thermal equilibrium, in a mean field limit situation. We find that the already known results concerning existence and uniqueness of the solutions for the ordinary Vlasov equation (constructive results and counterexamples) translate to our case.     

On some boundary element methods for the heat equation

Summary The object of this paper is to study some boundary element methods for the heat equation. Two approaches are considered. The first, based on the heat potential, has been studied numerically by previous authors. Here the convergence analysis in one space dimension is presented. In the second approach, the heat equation is first descretized in time and the resulting elliptic problem is put in the boundary formulation. A straight forward implicit method and Crank-Nicolson's method are thus studied. Again convergence in one space dimension is proved.     

A fast numerical method for a natural boundary integral equation for the Helmholtz equation

A Neumann boundary value problem of the Helmholtz equation in the exterior circular domain is reduced into an equivalent natural boundary integral equation. Using our trigonometric wavelets and the Galerkin method, the obtained stiffness matrix is symmetrical and circulant, which lead us to a fast numerical method based on fast Fourier transform. Furthermore, we do not need to compute the entries of the stiffness matrix. Especially, our method is also efficient when the wave number k in the Helmholtz equation is very large.     

Adaptive space-time boundary element methods for the wave equation

For the solution of the wave equation a space-time energetic boundary integral formulation is used. The resulting single layer boundary integral equation is discretised by a conforming ansatz space on the lateral boundary. To derive an adaptive scheme an a posteriori error estimator based on the representation formula is used. Finally, numerical examples for a one-dimensional spatial domain are presented. (© 2016 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Justification of the collocation method for the integral equation for a mixed boundary value problem for the Helmholtz equation

The surface integral equation for a spatial mixed boundary value problem for the Helmholtz equation is considered. At a set of chosen points, the equation is replaced with a system of algebraic equations, and the existence and uniqueness of the solution of this system is established. The convergence of the solutions of this system to the exact solution of the integral equation is proven, and the convergence rate of the method is determined.     

Singular boundary value problem for the integrodifferential equation in an insurance model with stochastic premiums: Analysis and numerical solution

A singular boundary value problem for a second-order linear integrodifferential equation with Volterra and non-Volterra integral operators is formulated and analyzed. The equation is defined on ?₊, has a weak singularity at zero and a strong singularity at infinity, and depends on several positive parameters. Under natural constraints on the coefficients of the equation, existence and uniqueness theorems for this problem with given limit boundary conditions at singular points are proved, asymptotic representations of the solution are given, and an algorithm for its numerical determination is described. Numerical computations are performed and their interpretation is given. The problem arises in the study of the survival probability of an insurance company over infinite time (as a function of its initial surplus) in a dynamic insurance model that is a modification of the classical Cramer-Lundberg model with a stochastic process rate of premium under a certain investment strategy in the financial market. A comparative analysis of the results with those produced by the model with deterministic premiums is given.     

An inverse boundary value problem for the Oseen equation

Based on the two‐dimensional stationary Oseen equation we consider the problem to determine the shape of a cylindrical obstacle immersed in a fluid flow from a knowledge of the fluid velocity on some arc outside the obstacle. First, we obtain a uniqueness result for this ill‐posed and non‐linear inverse problem. Then, for the approximate solution we propose a regularized Newton iteration scheme based on a boundary integral equation of the first kind. For a foundation of Newton‐type methods we establish the Fréchet differentiability of the solution to the Dirichlet problem for the Oseen equation with respect to the boundary and investigate the injectivity of the linearized mapping. Some numerical examples for the feasibility of the method are presented. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A boundary function equation and its numerical solution

We consider the asymptotic solution of the plasma-sheath integro-differential equation, which is singularly perturbed due to the presence of a small coefficient multiplying the highest order (second) derivative. The asymptotic solution is obtained by the boundary function method. A second-order differential equation is derived describing the behavior of the zeroth-order boundary functions. A numerical algorithm for this equation is discussed. __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Matematika i Informatika, No. 24, pp. 24–34, 2006.     

三维Helmholtz方程边值问题的新型边界积分-微分方程及其边界元解法

用双层位势表示的二维Neumann边值问题的边界归化方法,将原始问题归化为新型边界积分-微分方程,由此导出一种新的既能保持原始问题的自伴性,又具有可积弱奇性积分核的边界变分方程.本文将此法推广到三维Helmholtz方程Neumann边值问题,并给出最优能量模误差估计和内部最大模超收敛估计.     

Solution of the advection-dispersion equation with free exit boundary

I investigated the exit boundary condition for the advection-dispersion equation and found that in numerical solutions of this equation, using Galekin finite elements, a free exit boundary condition requiring no a priori information is possible, provided the advective component in the numerical equations is of sufficient magnitude relative to the dispersive component. Since the relationship between these two components is controlled by the spatial discretization through the grid Peclet number, the free exit boundary condition can in fact be applied whenever there is a non-zero advective component. The numerical solution in a finite domain with free exit boundary, using a correctly proportioned spatial discrezation, behaves like an infinite-domain solution.     

Strichartz estimates for the wave equation on manifolds with boundary

We prove certain mixed-norm Strichartz estimates on manifolds with boundary. Using them we are able to prove new results for the critical and subcritical wave equation in 4-dimensions with Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions. We obtain global existence in the subcritical case, as well as global existence for the critical equation with small data. We also can use our Strichartz estimates to prove scattering results for the critical wave equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions in 3-dimensions.