Uniform stability for solutions of a structural acoustics PDE model with no added dissipative feedback

A rate of rational decay is obtained for smooth solutions of a PDE model, which has been used in the literature to describe structural acoustic flows. This structural acoustics model is composed of two distinct PDE systems: (i) a wave equation, to model the interior acoustic flow within the given cavity Ω and (ii) a structurally damped elastic equation, to describe time‐evolving displacements along the flexible portion Γ₀ of the cavity walls. Moreover, the extent of damping in this elastic component is quantified by parameter η∈[0,1]. The coupling between these two distinct dynamics occurs across the boundary interface Γ₀. Our main result is the derivation of uniform decay rates for classical solutions of this particular structural acoustic PDE, decay rates that are obtained without incorporating any additional boundary dissipative feedback mechanisms. In particular, in the case that full Kelvin–Voight damping is present in fourth‐order elastic dynamics, that is, the structural acoustics system as it appears in the literature, solutions that correspond to smooth initial data decay at a rate of . By way of deriving these stability results, necessary a priori inequalities for a certain static structural acoustics PDE model are generated here; these inequalities ultimately allow for an application of a recently derived resolvent criterion for rational decay. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Control-theoretic properties of structural acoustic models with thermal effects,I. Singular estimates

We consider a class of structural acoustics models with thermoelastic flexible wall. More precisely, the PDE system consists of a wave equation (within an acoustic chamber) which is coupled to a system of thermoelastic plate equations with rotational inertia; the coupling is strong as it is accomplished via boundary terms. Moreover, the system is subject to boundary thermal control. We show that—under three different sets of coupled (mechanical/thermal) boundary conditions—the overall coupled system inherits some specific regularity properties of its thermoelastic component, as it satisfies the same singular estimates recently established for the thermoelastic system alone. These regularity estimates are of central importance for (i) well-posedness of Differential and Algebraic Riccati equations arising in the associated optimal control problems, and (ii) existence of solutions to the semilinear initial/boundary value problem under nonlinear boundary conditions. The proof given uses as a critical ingredient a sharp trace theorem pertaining to second-order hyperbolic equations with Neumann boundary data.     

Blow‐up of solution of wave equation with internal and boundary source term and non‐porous viscoelastic acoustic boundary conditions

In this paper we study the blow‐up of solution of a mixed problem associated to a nonlinear wave equation with dissipative and source term in a bounded domain of . On a boundary portion of the domain we consider a non‐porous viscoelastic acoustic boundary conditions to a non‐locally reacting boundary.     

Uniqueness Theorems for the Frankl-Morawetz Problem in R2 for a Class of Nonlinear Equations of Mixed Type

We consider the question of uniqueness for the solutions of the boundary value problem (1) where sgn K(y) = sgn y and Γ₀ and Γ₁ are parts of the boundary of a bounded simply connected region G in R². G is bounded for y > 0 by a piecewise smooth curve Γ₀ which intersects the line y = 0 at A (– 1, 0) and B(0, 0). For y < 0 G is bounded by a piecewise smooth curve Γ₁ through A, which meets the characteristic of (1) issued from B at point C, and by the curve Γ₂ which consists of the portion CB of the characteristic through B. Using energy-integral considerations, we give sufficient conditions for the uniqueness of solutions to boundary value problem (1).     

Existence and regularity of positive solutions of a degenerate elliptic problem

Existence and regularity of positive solutions of a degenerate elliptic Dirichlet problem of the form in Ω, on , where Ω is a bounded smooth domain in , , are obtained via new embeddings of some weighted Sobolev spaces with singular weights and . It is seen that and admit many singular points in Ω. The main embedding results in this paper provide some generalizations of the well‐known Caffarelli–Kohn–Nirenberg inequality.     

A conformal mapping algorithm for the Bernoulli free boundary value problem

We propose a new numerical method for the solution of the Bernoulli free boundary value problem for harmonic functions in a doubly connected domain D in where an unknown free boundary Γ₀ is determined by prescribed Cauchy data on Γ₀ in addition to a Dirichlet condition on the known boundary Γ₁. Our main idea is to involve the conformal mapping method as proposed and analyzed by Akduman, Haddar, and Kress for the solution of a related inverse boundary value problem. For this, we interpret the free boundary Γ₀ as the unknown boundary in the inverse problem to construct Γ₀ from the Dirichlet condition on Γ₀ and Cauchy data on the known boundary Γ₁. Our method for the Bernoulli problem iterates on the missing normal derivative on Γ₁ by alternating between the application of the conformal mapping method for the inverse problem and solving a mixed Dirichlet–Neumann boundary value problem in D. We present the mathematical foundations of our algorithm and prove a convergence result. Some numerical examples will serve as proof of concept of our approach. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A fairly strong stability result for parabolic quasiminimizers

In this paper we consider parabolic Q‐quasiminimizers related to the p‐Laplace equation in . In particular, we focus on the stability problem with respect to the parameters p and Q. It is known that, if , then parabolic quasiminimizers with fixed initial‐boundary data on converge to the parabolic minimizer strongly in under suitable further structural assumptions. Our concern is whether or not we can obtain even stronger convergence. We will show a fairly strong stability result.     

Operators with Wentzell boundary conditions and the Dirichlet‐to‐Neumann operator

In this paper we relate the generator property of an operator A with (abstract) generalized Wentzell boundary conditions on a Banach space X and its associated (abstract) Dirichlet‐to‐Neumann operator N acting on a “boundary” space . Our approach is based on similarity transformations and perturbation arguments and allows to split A into an operator A₀₀ with Dirichlet‐type boundary conditions on a space X₀ of states having “zero trace” and the operator N. If A₀₀ generates an analytic semigroup, we obtain under a weak Hille–Yosida type condition that A generates an analytic semigroup on X if and only if N does so on . Here we assume that the (abstract) “trace” operator is bounded that is typically satisfied if X is a space of continuous functions. Concrete applications are made to various second order differential operators.     

On the completeness of root vectors generated by systems of coupled hyperbolic equations

The paper is the second in a set of two papers, which are devoted to a unified approach to the problem of completeness of the generalized eigenvectors (the root vectors) for a specific class of linear non‐selfadjoint unbounded matrix differential operators. The list of the problems for which such operators are the dynamics generators includes the following: (a) initial boundary‐value problem (IBVP) for a non‐homogeneous string with both distributed and boundary damping; (b) IBVP for small vibrations of an ideal filament with a one‐parameter family of dissipative boundary conditions at one end and with a heavy load at the other end; this filament problem is treated for two cases of the boundary parameter: non‐singular and singular; (c) IBVP for a three‐dimensional damped wave equation with spherically symmetric coefficients and both distributed and boundary damping; (d) IBVP for a system of two coupled hyperbolic equations constituting a Timoshenko beam model with variable coefficients and boundary damping; (e) IBVP for a coupled Euler‐Bernoulli and Timoshenko beam model with boundary energy dissipation (the model known in engineering literature as bending‐torsion vibration model); (f) IBVP for two coupled Timoshenko beams model, which is currently accepted as an appropriate model describing vibrational behavior of a longer double‐walled carbon nanotube. Problems have been discussed in the first paper of the aforementioned set. Problems are discussed in the present paper.     

Nonlinear differential identities for cnoidal waves

This article presents a family of nonlinear differential identities for the spatially periodic function , which is essentially the Jacobian elliptic function with one non‐trivial parameter . More precisely, we show that this function fulfills equations of the form for all . We give explicit expressions for the coefficients and for given s. Moreover, we show that for any s the set of functions constitutes a basis for . By virtue of our formulas the problem of finding a periodic solution to any nonlinear wave equation reduces to a problem in the coefficients. A finite ansatz exactly solves the KdV equation (giving the well‐known cnoidal wave solution) and the Kawahara equation. An infinite ansatz is expected to be especially efficient if the equation to be solved can be considered a perturbation of the KdV equation.     

Spectrum of a linear fourth‐order differential operator and its applications

In this paper, we apply the disconjugacy theory and Elias's spectrum theory to study the positivity and the spectrum structure of the linear operator coupled with the clamped beam boundary conditions (1.2). We also study the positivity and the spectrum structure of the more general operator coupled with (1.2). As the applications of our results on positivity and spectrum of fourth‐order linear differential operators, we show the existence of nodal solutions for the corresponding nonlinear problems via Rabinowitz's global bifurcation theorem.     

Twisted Orlicz algebras,II

Let G be a locally compact group, let be a 2‐cocycle, and let () be a complementary pair of strictly increasing continuous Young functions. We continue our investigation in [14] of the algebraic properties of the Orlicz space with respect to the twisted convolution ? coming from Ω. We show that the twisted Orlicz algebra posses a bounded approximate identity if and only if it is unital if and only if G is discrete. On the other hand, under suitable condition on Ω, becomes an Arens regular, dual Banach algebra. We also look into certain cohomological properties of , namely amenability and Connes‐amenability, and show that they rarely happen. We apply our methods to compactly generated group of polynomial growth and demonstrate that our results could be applied to variety of cases.     

Non‐autonomous forms and invariance

We generalize the Beurling–Deny–Ouhabaz criterion for parabolic evolution equations governed by forms to the non‐autonomous, non‐homogeneous and semilinear case. Let be Hilbert spaces such that V is continuously and densely embedded in H and let be the operator associated with a bounded H‐elliptic form for all . Suppose is closed and convex and the orthogonal projection onto . Given and , we investigate when the solution of the non‐autonomous evolutionary problem remains in and show that this is the case if for a.e. . Moreover, we examine necessity of this condition and apply this result to a semilinear problem.     

Liouville-type theorems for a nonlinear fractional Choquard equation

In this paper, we are concerned with the fractional Choquard equation on the whole space ${\mathbb{R}}^N$ $${(-\mathrm{\Delta })}^{s}u=\left(\frac{1}{{|x|}^{N-2s}}\ast u^p\right)u^{p-1}$$ with , $N>2s$ and $p\in \mathbb{R}$. We first prove that the equation does not possess any positive solution for $p\le 1$. When $p>1$, we establish a Liouville type theorem saying that if then the equation has no positive stable solution. This extends, in particular, a result in [27] to the fractional Choquard equation.     

Starshapedness of the superlevel sets of solutions to equations involving the fractional Laplacian in starshaped rings

We study solutions of the problem (0.1) where are open sets such that , , and f is a nonlinearity. Under different assumptions on f we prove that, if D₀ and D₁ are starshaped with respect to the same point , then the same occurs for every superlevel set of u.     

The weak Stokes problem associated with a flow through a profile cascade in Lr$L^r$-framework

We study the weak steady Stokes problem, associated with a flow of a Newtonian incompressible fluid through a spatially periodic profile cascade, in the $L^r$-setup. The mathematical model used here is based on the reduction to one spatial period, represented by a bounded 2D domain Ω. The corresponding Stokes problem is formulated using three types of boundary conditions: the conditions of periodicity on the “lower” and “upper” parts of the boundary, the Dirichlet boundary conditions on the “inflow” and on the profile and an artificial “do nothing”-type boundary condition on the “outflow.” Under appropriate assumptions on the given data, we prove the existence and uniqueness of a weak solution in ${\mathbf{W}}^{1,r}(\mathrm{\Omega })$ and its continuous dependence on the data. We explain the sense in which the “do nothing” boundary condition on the “outflow” is satisfied.     

Diffusive stability for periodic metric graphs

We consider a nonlinear diffusion equation on an infinite periodic metric graph. We prove that the terms which are irrelevant w.r.t. linear diffusion on the real line are irrelevant w.r.t. linear diffusion on the periodic metric graph, too. The proof is based on L¹‐ estimates combined with Bloch wave analysis for periodic metric graphs.     

Singular spectral shift function for resolvent comparable operators

Let be a Schrödinger operator on , , or 3, where is a bounded measurable real‐valued function on . Let V be an operator of multiplication by a bounded integrable real‐valued function and put for real r. We show that the associated spectral shift function (SSF) ξ admits a natural decomposition into the sum of absolutely continuous and singular SSFs. In particular, the singular SSF is integer‐valued almost everywhere, even within the absolutely continuous spectrum where the same cannot be said of the SSF itself. This is a special case of an analogous result for resolvent comparable pairs of self‐adjoint operators, which generalises the case of a trace class perturbation appearing in [2] while also simplifying its proof. We present two proofs which demonstrate the equality of the singular SSF with two a priori different and intrinsically integer‐valued functions which can be associated with the pair H₀, V: the total resonance index [3] and the singular μ‐invariant [2].