Concentration-compactness principle at infinity and semilinear elliptic equations involving critical and subcritical Sobolev exponents

We formulate the concentration-compactness principle at infinity for both subcritical and critical case. We show some applications to the existence theory of semilinear elliptic equations involving critical and subcritical Sobolev exponents.     

Multiple solutions for semilinear totally characteristic elliptic equations with subcritical or critical cone Sobolev exponents

In this paper, we study the Dirichlet problem for a class of semilinear totally characteristic elliptic equations with subcritical or critical cone Sobolev exponents and get the existence of infinitely many solutions in both case.     

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.     

Continuation and asymptotics of solutions to semilinear parabolic equations with critical nonlinearities

In this paper we discuss continuation properties and asymptotic behavior of -regular solutions to abstract semilinear parabolic problems in case when the nonlinear term satisfies critical growth conditions. A necessary and sufficient condition for global in time existence of -regular solutions is given. We also formulate sufficient conditions to construct a piecewise -regular solutions (continuation beyond maximal time of existence for -regular solutions). Applications to strongly damped wave equations and to higher order semilinear parabolic equations are finally discussed. In particular global solvability and the existence of a global attractor for in is achieved in case when a nonlinear term f satisfies a critical growth condition and a dissipativeness condition. Similar result is obtained for a 2mth order semilinear parabolic initial boundary value problem in a Hilbert space .     

Blow-up for a semilinear reaction-diffusion system coupled in both equations and boundary conditions

We study the blow-up behavior for a semilinear reaction-diffusion system coupled in both equations and boundary conditions. The main purpose is to understand how the reaction terms and the absorption terms affect the blow-up properties. We obtain a necessary and sufficient condition for blow-up, derive the upper bound and lower bound for the blow-up rate, and find the blow-up set under certain assumptions.     

Blow-up of solutions to semilinear wave equations with variable coefficients and boundary

This paper is devoted to studying initial-boundary value problems for semilinear wave equations and derivative semilinear wave equations with variable coefficients on exterior domain with subcritical exponents in n space dimensions. We will establish blow-up results for the initial-boundary value problems. It is proved that there can be no global solutions no matter how small the initial data are, and also we give the life span estimate of solutions for the problems.     

Long-Wave Instability in a Three-Layer Stratified Shear Flow

In inviscid fluid flows, instability can occur because of a resonance between two wave modes. For the case when the modes remain distinct at the critical point where the wave phase speeds coincide, then in the weakly nonlinear, long-wave limit, there is an expectation that the generic outcome is a model consisting of two coupled Korteweg–deVries equations. This situation is examined for a certain three-layer stratified shear flow.     

Decay estimates for second order evolution equations with memory

This paper develops a unified method to derive decay estimates for general second order integro-differential evolution equations with semilinear source terms. Depending on the properties of convolution kernels at infinity, we show that the energy of a mild solution decays exponentially or polynomially as t→+∞. Our approach is based on integral inequalities and multiplier techniques.These decay results can be applied to various partial differential equations. We discuss three examples: a semilinear viscoelastic wave equation, a linear anisotropic elasticity model, and a Petrovsky type system.     

Asymptotic behaviour of ground states

We derive the asymptotic behaviour of the ground states of a system of two coupled semilinear Poisson equations with a strongly indefinite variational structure in the critical Sobolev growth case.

     

Blow-up estimates for a semilinear coupled parabolic system

This work deals with a semilinear parabolic system which is coupled both in the equations and in the boundary conditions. The blow-up phenomena of its positive solutions are studied using the scaling method, the Green function and Schauder estimates. The upper and lower bounds of blow-up rates are then obtained. Moreover we show the influences of the reaction terms and the boundary absorption terms on the blow-up estimates.     

Integral Inequalities and Global Solutions of Semilinear Evolution Equations

A criterion for the nonexplosion of solutions to semilinear evolution equations on Banach spaces is proved. The result is obtained by applying a modification of the Bihari type inequality to the case of a weakly singular nonlinear integral inequality.     

Controllability of Some Nonlinear Systems in Hilbert Spaces

In this paper, several abstract results concerning the controllability of semilinear evolution systems are obtained. First, approximate controllability conditions for semilinear systems are obtained by means of a fixed-point theorem of the Rothe type; in this case, the compactness of the linear operator is assumed. Next, the exact controllability of semilinear systems with nonlinearities having small Lipschitz constants is derived by means of the Banach fixed-point theorem; in this case, the compactness of the operators is not assumed. In both cases, it is proven that the controllability of the linear system implies the controllability of the associated semilinear system. Finally, these abstract results are applied to the controllability of the semilinear wave and heat equations.     

Some Explicit Resonating Waves in Weakly Nonlinear Gas Dynamics

Equations governing leading order wave amplitudes of resonating almost periodic wave trains in weakly nonlinear acoustics have been obtained by Majda and Rosales [Stud. Appl. Math. 71:149–179 (1984)]. These equations consist of a pair of Burgers equations coupled through an integral term with a known kernel. Numerical experiments reported by Majda, Rosales, and Schonbek have suggested the existence of smooth solutions of this system whose components consist of traveling waves moving in opposite directions. For the simplest cosine kernel, explicit formulae are given here for such resonating wave solutions. There is a wave of maximum amplitude with a “peak.” For more general kernels, small amplitude resonating waves are constructed via bifurcation.     

Center manifolds of infinite dimensions I: Main results and applications

In this paper, the first of a bipartite work, we consider an abstract, nonautonomous system of evolution equations of hyperbolic type, related to semilinear wave equations. Theorem 1 states that under certain assumptions the system admits a global center manifold, or equivalently a global decoupling function which is continuously differentiable with respect to its arguments, among which timet occurs. The difficult proof is presented in part II, i.e. the continuation of the present paper. For purposes of applications a local version of Theorem 1 is proved, i.e. the local center manifold Theorem 2. We obtain a series of applications both to abstract, nonautonomous wave equations and to concrete nonautonomous, semilinear wave equations subject to Neumann and Dirichlet boundary conditions.     

Strong Interactions between Solitary Waves Belonging to Different Wave Modes

Strong interactions between weakly nonlinear long waves are studied. Strong interactions occur when the linear long wave phase speeds are nearly equal although the waves belong to different modes. Specifically we study this situation in the context of internal wave modes propagating in a density stratified fluid. The interaction is described by two coupled Korteweg-deVries equations, which possess both dispersive and nonlinear coupling terms. It is shown that the coupled equations possess an exact analytical solution involving the characteristic “sech²” profile of the Korteweg-deVries equation. It is also shown that when the coefficients satisfy some special conditions, the coupled equations possess an n-solition solution analogous to the Korteweg-deVries n-solition solution. In general though the coupled equations are found not to be amenable to solution by the inverse scattering transform technique, and thus a numerical method has been employed in order to find solutions. This method is described in detail in Appendix A. Several numerical solutions of the coupled equations are presented.     

Second order optimality conditions for a class of control problems governed by non-linear integral equations with application to parabolic boundary control

In the paper necessary and sufficient second order optimality conditions for optimal control problems governed by weakly singular non linear Hammerstein integral equations are derived. They are applied to a semilinear parabolic boundary control problem for the one dimensional heat equation.     

Entire Solutions for a Class of Fourth-Order Semilinear Elliptic Equations with Weights

We investigate the problem of entire solutions for a class of fourth-order, dilation invariant, semilinear elliptic equations with power-type weights and with subcritical or critical growth in the nonlinear term. These equations define noncompact variational problems and are characterized by the presence of a term containing lower order derivatives, whose strength is ruled by a parameter λ. We can prove existence of entire solutions found as extremal functions for some Rellich–Sobolev type inequalities. Moreover, when the nonlinearity is suitably close to the critical one and the parameter λ is large, symmetry breaking phenomena occur and in some cases the asymptotic behavior of radial and nonradial ground states can be somehow described.     

Global existence and nonexistence of solutions for a system of nonlinear damped wave equations

We consider the Cauchy problem for the system of semilinear damped wave equations with small initial data:

We show that a critical exponent which classifies the global existence and the finite time blow up of solutions indeed coincides with the one to a corresponding semilinear heat systems with small data. The proof of the global existence is based on the L^p–L^q estimates of fundamental solutions for linear damped wave equations [K. Nishihara, L^p–L^q estimates of solutions to the damped wave equation in 3-dimensional space and their application, Math. Z. 244 (2003) 631–649; K. Marcati, P. Nishihara, The L^p–L^q estimates of solutions to one-dimensional damped wave equations and their application to compressible flow through porous media, J. Differential Equations 191 (2003) 445–469; T. Hosono, T. Ogawa, Large time behavior and L^p–L^q estimate of 2-dimensional nonlinear damped wave equations, J. Differential Equations 203 (2004) 82–118; T. Narazaki, L^p–L^q estimates for damped wave equations and their applications to semilinear problem, J. Math. Soc. Japan 56 (2004) 585–626]. And the blow-up is shown by the Fujita–Kaplan–Zhang method [Q. Zhang, A blow-up result for a nonlinear wave equation with damping: The critical case, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris 333 (2001) 109–114; F. Sun, M. Wang, Existence and nonexistence of global solutions for a nonlinear hyperbolic system with damping, Nonlinear Anal. 66 (12) (2007) 2889–2910; T. Ogawa, H. Takeda, Non-existence of weak solutions to nonlinear damped wave equations in exterior domains, Nonlinear Anal. 70 (10) (2009) 3696–3701].     

The blow-up curve of solutions of mixed problems for semilinear wave equations with exponential nonlinearities in one space dimension, II

In this paper, we consider mixed problems with a timelike boundary derivative (or a Dirichlet) condition for semilinear wave equations with exponential nonlinearities in a quarter plane. The case when the boundary vector field is tangent to the characteristic which leaves the domain in the future is also considered. We show that solutions either are global or blow up on a C¹ curve which is spacelike except at the point where it meets the boundary; at that point, it is tangent to the characteristic which leaves the domain in the future.