Infinitely many radial solutions for a p-Laplacian problem p-superlinear at the origin

We prove the existence of infinitely many radial solutions for a p-Laplacian Dirichlet problem which is p-superlinear at the origin. The main tool that we use is the shooting method. We extend for more general nonlinearities the results of J. Iaia in [J. Iaia, Radial solutions to a p-Laplacian Dirichlet problem, Appl. Anal. 58 (1995) 335-350]. Previous developments require a behavior of the nonlinearity at zero and infinity, while our main result only needs a condition of the nonlinearity at zero.     

Monotone Iterative Technique for a Class of Semilinear Evolution Equations with Nonlocal Conditions

This paper discusses the existence and uniqueness of mild solutions for a class of semilinear evolution equations with nonlocal conditions in an ordered Banach space E. Under some monotonicity conditions and noncompactness measure conditions of the nonlinearity, a new monotone iterative method on the evolution equations with nonlocal conditions has been established. Particularly, an existence result without using noncompactness measure condition is obtained in ordered and weakly sequentially complete Banach spaces, which is very convenient for application. An example to illustrate our main results is also given.     

A priori estimate for a quasilinear problem depending on the gradient

The main purpose of this paper is to establish a priori estimate for positive solutions of some superlinear, quasilinear elliptic equations where the nonlinearity depends on x, u, and ∇u. Our argument does not need a non-existence result for the limit problem obtained by the usual blow-up procedure. This work is related to a previous one by Ruiz (2004) [9].     

Fixed points and exponential stability of mild solutions of stochastic partial differential equations with delays

The fixed-point theory is first used to consider the stability for stochastic partial differential equations with delays. Some conditions for the exponential stability in pth mean as well as in sample path of mild solutions are given. These conditions do not require the monotone decreasing behavior of the delays, which is necessary in [T. Caraballo, K. Liu, Exponential stability of mild solutions of stochastic partial differential equations with delays, Stoch. Anal. Appl. 17 (1999) 743-763; Ruhollan Jahanipur, Stability of stochastic delay evolution equations with monotone nonlinearity, Stoch. Anal. Appl. 21 (2003) 161-181]. Even in this special case, our results also improve the results in [T. Caraballo, K. Liu, Exponential stability of mild solutions of stochastic partial differential equations with delays, Stoch. Anal. Appl. 17 (1999) 743-763].     

Existence of radial solutions for an asymptotically linear p-Laplacian problem

We prove that an asymptotically linear Dirichlet problem which involves the p-Laplacian operator has multiple radial solutions when the nonlinearity has a positive zero and the range of the ‘p-derivative’ of the nonlinearity includes at least the first j radial eigenvalues of the p-Laplacian operator. The main tools that we use are a uniqueness result for the p-Laplacian operator and bifurcation theory.     

Stochastic functional evolution equations with monotone nonlinearity: Existence and stability of the mild solutions

In this paper, we study a class of semilinear functional evolution equations in which the nonlinearity is demicontinuous and satisfies a semimonotone condition. We prove the existence, uniqueness and exponentially asymptotic stability of the mild solutions. Our approach is to apply a convenient version of Burkholder inequality for convolution integrals and an iteration method based on the existence and measurability results for the functional integral equations in Hilbert spaces. An Itô-type inequality is the main tool to study the uniqueness, p-th moment and almost sure sample path asymptotic stability of the mild solutions. We also give some examples to illustrate the applications of the theorems and meanwhile we compare the results obtained in this paper with some others appeared in the literature.     

Special conformal groups of a Riemannian manifold and Lie point symmetries of the nonlinear Poisson equation

We obtain a complete group classification of the Lie point symmetries of nonlinear Poisson equations on generic (pseudo) Riemannian manifolds M. Using this result we study their Noether symmetries and establish the respective conservation laws. It is shown that the projection of the Lie point symmetries on M are special subgroups of the conformal group of M. In particular, if the scalar curvature of M vanishes, the projection on M of the Lie point symmetry group of the Poisson equation with critical nonlinearity is the conformal group of the manifold. We illustrate our results by applying them to the Thurston geometries.     

Entropy solutions to the Verigin ultraparabolic problem

We study the Cauchy problem for the two-dimensional ultraparabolic model of filtration of a viscous incompressible fluid containing an admixture, with diffusion of the admixture in a porous medium taken into account. The porous medium consists of the fibers directed along some vector field n ^⊥. We prove that if the nonlinearity in the equations of the model and the geometric structure of fibers satisfy some additional “genuine nonlinearity” condition then the Cauchy problem with bounded initial data has at least one entropy solution and the fast oscillating regimes possible in the initial data are promptly suppressed in the entropy solutions. The proofs base on the introduction and systematic study of the kinetic equation associated with the problem as well as on application of the modification of Tartar H-measures which was proposed by Panov.     

Existence of one-signed periodic solutions of some second-order differential equations via a Krasnoselskii fixed point theorem

This paper is devoted to study the existence of periodic solutions of the second-order equation x″=f(t,x), where f is a Carathéodory function, by combining some new properties of Green's function together with Krasnoselskii fixed point theorem on compression and expansion of cones. As applications, we get new existence results for equations with jumping nonlinearities as well as equations with a repulsive or attractive singularity. In this latter case, our results cover equations with weak singularities and are compared with some recent results by I. Rachunková, M. Tvrdý and I. Vrkoc?.     

On a class of sublinear singular elliptic problems with convection term

We establish several results related to existence, nonexistence or bifurcation of positive solutions for the boundary value problem −Δu+K(x)g(u)+a|∇u|=λf(x,u) in Ω, u=0 on ∂Ω, where Ω⊂RN(N?2) is a smooth bounded domain, 0<a?2, λ is a positive parameter, and f is smooth and has a sublinear growth. The main feature of this paper consists in the presence of the singular nonlinearity g combined with the convection term a|∇u|. Our approach takes into account both the sign of the potential K and the decay rate around the origin of the singular nonlinearity g. The proofs are based on various techniques related to the maximum principle for elliptic equations.     

Analytical solutions of a coupled nonlinear system arising in a flow between stretching disks

In this paper, we consider the axi-symmetric flow between two infinite stretching disks. By using a similarity transformation, we reduce the governing Navier-Stokes equations to a system of nonlinear ordinary differential equations. We first obtain analytical solutions via a four-term perturbation method for small and large values of the Reynolds number R. Also, we apply the Homotopy Analysis Method (which may be used for all values of R) to obtain analytical solutions. These solutions converge over a larger range of values of the Reynolds number than the perturbation solutions. Our results agree well with the numerical results of Fang and Zhang [22]. Furthermore, we obtain the analytical solutions valid for moderate values of R by use of Homotopy Analysis.     

Nonlinear gradient estimates for elliptic equations of general type

We study a very general model of nonvariational elliptic equations of p-Laplacian type. We prove the W ^1,q -estimates for each q > p regarding such a nonlinear elliptic equation in divergence form under the assumption that for each point and for each sufficiently small scale the nonlinearity is suitably close to a vector of the gradient in BMO space. In the same spirit our results can be easily extended to Orlicz spaces as well.     

“Destruction” of the solution of a strongly nonlinear equation of pseudoparabolic type with double nonlinearity

We consider the first initial-boundary value problem for multidimensional strongly nonlinear equations with double nonlinearity of pseudoparabolic type in a bounded domain with sufficiently smooth boundary. We prove the local solvability of this problem in the weak generalized sense. Depending on the nonlinearity and initial conditions under consideration, we prove the solvability of the equation in any finite cylinder (x, t) ∈ Ω × [0, T] or the destruction of the solution in finite time.     

Positive solutions for the p-Laplacian involving critical and supercritical nonlinearities with zeros

In this paper we show the existence of multiple solutions to a class of quasilinear elliptic equations when the continuous nonlinearity has a positive zero and it satisfies a p-linear condition only at zero. In particular, our approach allows us to consider superlinear, critical and supercritical nonlinearities.     

Multilinear eigenfunction estimates and global existence for the three dimensional nonlinear Schrödinger equations

We study nonlinear Schrödinger equations, posed on a three dimensional Riemannian manifold M. We prove global existence of strong H¹ solutions on M=S³ and M=S²×S¹ as far as the nonlinearity is defocusing and sub-quintic and thus we extend results of Ginibre, Velo and Bourgain who treated the cases of the Euclidean space R³ and the torus T³=R³/Z³ respectively. The main ingredient in our argument is a new set of multilinear estimates for spherical harmonics.     

On the position of a vortex in a two-dimensional model of atmosphere

As a continuation of our work, Rozanova et al. (2010) [1] we study possible trajectories of a long time existing vortex in a model of the atmosphere dynamics, where the vortex can be interpreted as a tropical cyclone. The model can be obtained from the system of primitive equations governing the motion of air over the Earth’s surface after averaging over the height. We consider approximations of l-plane and β-plane used in geophysics for modeling of middle scale processes and equations on the whole sphere as well. We associate with a cyclone a special class of smooth solutions having a form of a localized steady non-singular vortex moving with a bearing field. We show that the solutions satisfy the equations of the model either exactly or with a discrepancy which is small in a neighborhood of the trajectory of the center of vortex. We show both analytically and numerically that the trajectory of a localized vortex keeps the features of trajectory of vortex with a linear profile of velocity, where the exact solution can be obtained.     

A uniqueness result for a semilinear parabolic system

We prove that for nonnegative, continuous, bounded and nonzero initial data we have a unique solution of the reaction-diffusion system described by three differential equations with non-Lipschitz nonlinearity. We also find the set of all nonnegative solutions of the system when the initial data is zero and in the last section we briefly discuss a generalization of the theorem to a system of n equations.     

Hopf bifurcation and stability for a differential-algebraic biological economic system

In this paper, we analyze the stability and Hopf bifurcation of the biological economic system based on the new normal form and the Hopf bifurcation theorem. The basic model we consider is owed to a ratio-dependent predator-prey system with harvesting, compared with other researches on dynamics of predator-prey population, this system is described by differential-algebraic equations due to economic factor. Here μ as bifurcation parameter, it is found that periodic solutions arise from stable stationary states when the parameter μ increases close to a certain limit. Finally, numerical simulations illustrate the effectiveness of our results.     

Global existence of classical solutions to a combined chemotaxis-haptotaxis model with logistic source

This paper deals with a mathematical model of cancer invasion of tissue. The model consists of a system of reaction-diffusion-taxis partial differential equations describing interactions between cancer cells, matrix degrading enzymes, and the host tissue. In two space dimensions, we prove global existence and uniqueness of classical solutions to this model for any μ>0 (where μ is the logistic growth rate of cancer cells). The crucial point of proof is to raise the regularity estimate of a solution from L¹(Ω) to L³(Ω×(0,T)) (where Ω⊂R² is some bounded domain and T>0 is some constant). This paper develops new estimate techniques and improves greatly our previous results [Y. Tao, M. Wang, Global solution for a chemotactic-haptotactic model of cancer invasion, Nonlinearity 21 (2008) 2221-2238] in 2 dimensions.