The asymptotic analysis of an insect dispersal model on a growing domain

This paper is concerned about a reaction-diffusion equation on n-dimensional isotropically growing domain, which describes the insect dispersal. The model for growing domains is first derived, and the comparison principle is then presented. The asymptotic behavior of the solution to the reaction-diffusion problem is given by constructing upper and lower solutions. Our results show that the growth of domain takes a positive effect on the asymptotic stability of positive steady state solution while it takes a negative effect on the asymptotic stability of the trivial solution. Numerical simulations are also performed to illustrate the analytical results.     

EXISTENCE,MULTIPLICITY AND STABILITY RESULTS FOR POSITIVE SOLUTIONS OF NONLINEAR p-LAPLACIAN EQUATIONS

This paper studies the existence of positive solutions of the Dirichlet problem for the nonlinear equation involving p-Laplacian operator:-△pu=λf(u) on a bounded smooth domain Ω in Rn. The authors extend part of the Crandall-Rabinowitz bifurcation theory to this problem. Typical examples are checked in detail and multiplicity of the solutions are illustrated. Then the stability for the associated parabolic equation is considered and a Fujita-type result is presented.     

Inverse coefficient problem for a wave equation in a bounded domain

The nonlinear inverse problem for a wave equation is investigated in a three-dimensional bounded domain subject to the Dirichlet boundary condition. Given a family of solutions to the equation defined on a closed surface within the original domain, it is required to reconstruct the coefficient determining the velocity of sound in the medium. The solutions used for this purpose correspond to the acoustic medium perturbations localized in the neighborhood of a certain closed surface. The inverse problem is reduced to a linear integral equation of the first kind, and the uniqueness of the solution to this equation is established. Numerical results are presented.     

非齐次线性微分方程解的增长性

研究了非齐次线性微分方程f^{(k)}+A_{k-1}(z)f^{(k-1)}+...+A_{s}(z)f^{(s)}+...+A_{0}(z)f=F(z) 解的增长性,其中A_{j}(j=0,1,\cdots,k-1)及F是整函数. 在A_{s}比其他系数有较快增 长的情况下,得到了上述非齐次微分方程在一定条件下的超越整函数解的超级的精确估计.     

Alternating group explicit method for the diffusion equation

A new alternating group explicit method is presented for the finite difference solution of the diffusion equation. The new method uses stable asymmetric approximations to the partial differential equation which, when coupled in groups of two adjacent points on the grid, result in implicit equations which can be easily converted to explicit form and which offer many advantages. By judicious alternation of this strategy on the grid points of the domain an algorithm which possesses unconditional stability is obtained. This approach also results in more accurate solutions because of truncation error cancellations. The stability, consistency, convergence and truncation error of the new method are briefly discussed and the results of numerical experiments presented.     

理想塑性固体中逐步扩展裂纹的弹塑性场

本文从三维的塑性流动理论出发,导出了关于理想塑性固体平面应变问题的基本方程。利用这些方程,分析了不可压缩理想塑性固体的逐步扩展裂纹顶端的弹塑性场。得到了关于应力和速度的一阶渐近场。分析了弹性卸载区的演变过程和中心扇形区的发展过程。预示了出现二次塑性区的可能性。最后给出了关于应力场二阶渐近分析。     

Boundary observability for the finite-difference space semi-discretizations of the 2-d wave equation in the square

We extend our previous results on the boundary observability of the finite-difference space semidiscretizations of the 1-d wave equation to 2-d in the square. As in the 1-d case, we prove that the constants on the boundary observability inequality blow-up as the mesh-size tends to zero. However, we prove a uniform observability inequality in a subspace of solutions generated by the low frequencies. The dimension of these subspaces grows as the mesh size tends to zero and eventually, in the limit, covers the whole energy space. Our result is sharp in the sense that the uniformity of the observability inequality is lost when the dimension of the subspaces grows faster. Our method of proof combines discrete multiplier techniques, Fourier series developments and compactness-uniqueness arguments.     

一类时间分数阶偏微分方程的解

考虑一类时间分数阶偏微分方程,该方程包含几种特殊情况:时间分数阶扩散方程、时间分数阶反应-扩散方程、时间分数阶对流-扩散方程以及它们各自相对应的整数阶偏微分方程． 通过Laplace-Fourier变换及其逆变换,该方程在空间全平面和半平面内的基本解可以求出,但其表达式则是通过适当的变形来求．另外,对于有限域上的初边值问题,则可由Sine(Cosine)-Laplace变换导出该方程的一种级数形式的解,并通过两个数值例子来说明该方法的有效性．     

Polynomial decay for a hyperbolic–parabolic coupled system

This paper analyzes the long time behavior of a linearized model for fluid-structure interaction. The space domain consists of two parts in which the evolution is governed by the heat equation and the wave equation respectively, with transmission conditions at the interface. Based on the construction of ray-like solutions by means of Geometric Optics expansions and a careful analysis of the transfer of the energy at the interface, we show the lack of uniform decay of solutions in general domains. Also, we prove the polynomial decay result for smooth solutions under a suitable Geometric Control Condition. This condition requires that all rays propagating in the wave domain reach the interface in a uniform time after, possibly, bouncing in the exterior boundary.     

Stabilization and control for the subcritical semilinear wave equation

In this paper, we analyze the exponential decay property of solutions of the semilinear wave equation in with a damping term which is effective on the exterior of a ball. Under suitable and natural assumptions on the nonlinearity we prove that the exponential decay holds locally uniformly for finite energy solutions provided the nonlinearity is subcritical at infinity. Subcriticality means, roughly speaking, that the nonlinearity grows at infinity at most as a power p<5. The method of proof combines classical energy estimates for the linear wave equation allowing to estimate the total energy of solutions in terms of the energy localized in the exterior of a ball, Strichartz's estimates and results by P. Gérard on microlocal defect measures and linearizable sequences. We also give an application to the stabilization and controllability of the semilinear wave equation in a bounded domain under the same growth condition on the nonlinearity but provided the nonlinearity has been cut-off away from the boundary.     

Concavity estimates for a class of nonlinear elliptic equations in two dimensions

We study solutions of the nonlinear elliptic equation on a bounded domain in . It is shown that the set of points where the graph of the solution has negative Gauss curvature always extends to the boundary, unless it is empty. The meethod uses an elliptic equation satisfied by an auxiliary function given by the product of the Hessian determinant and a suitable power of the solutions. As a consequence of the result, we give a new proof for power concavity of solutions to certain semilinear boundary value problems in convex domains. Received: 12 January 2000; in final form: 15 March 2001 / Published online: 4 April 2002     

Local existence of solutions for the Neumann problem of the nonlinear elastodynamic system outside a domain

In this paper, we study the mixed initial-boundary value problem of Neumann type for the nonlinear elastic wave equation outside a domain. The local existence of solutions to this problem is proved by iteration. To get this result, we prove the existence of solutions for the second order linear hyperbolic system with variable coefficients (in Sobolev spaces) outside of a domain by using linear evolution operators and integro-differential equations.     

Some new and general solutions to the compound KdV-Burgers system with nonlinear terms of any order

In this letter, a new Riccati equation expansion method is presented for constructing exact travelling-wave solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations. The main idea of this method is to take full advantage of the solutions of the Riccati equation to construct exact travelling-wave solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations. As a result, some more generalized solutions, which contain triangular periodic solutions, exp function solutions and the soliton-like solutions, are obtained.     

Discontinuous reaction-diffusion equations under discontinuous and nonlocal flux conditions

In this paper, we consider a quasilinear parabolic equation with discontinuous source term in a bounded cylindrical domain under nonlocal and discontinuous flux conditions. Our main goal is to prove the existence of extremal solutions within a sector formed by appropriately defined upper and lower solutions. The main tools used in the proof of our result are recently obtained abstract results on nonlinear evolution equations, an abstract fixed-point result in partially ordered sets, compact embeddings, comparison, and truncation techniques.     

On a Fourier Method of Embedding Domains Using an Optimal Distributed Control

We propose a domain embedding method to solve second order elliptic problems in arbitrary two-dimensional domains. This method can be easily extended to three-dimensional problems. The method is based on formulating the problem as an optimal distributed control problem inside a rectangle in which the arbitrary domain is embedded. A periodic solution of the equation under consideration is constructed easily by making use of Fourier series. Numerical results obtained for Dirichlet problems are presented. The numerical tests show a high accuracy of the proposed algorithm and the computed solutions are in very good agreement with the exact solutions.     

Fluid-structure interaction: analysis of a 3-D compressible model

In this paper, we present an existence result of weak solutions for a three-dimensional problem of fluid-plate interaction in which we take into account the non linearity of the continuity equation. This non linearity does not allow, as is usually the case, to neglect the variations of the domain which leads us to study a problem defined on a time dependent domain.     

On vanishing-curvature extensions of Lorentzian metrics

We study the problem of extending Lorentzian metrics, defined on the boundary of a smooth domain in C, into the interior of the domain in such a way that the curvature vanishes. This amounts to solving a nonlinear partial differential equation for matrices with given boundary values. Generalizing and strengthening a result of Berndtsson, we prove that solutions do exist for certain boundary metrics, assuming the existence of a “subsolution.” The proof is based on the continuity method with a result of Coifman and Semmes concerning positive-definite metrics as the starting point.     

Accuracy and conservation properties in numerical integration: the case of the Korteweg-de Vries equation

Summary. When numerically integrating time-dependent differential equations, it is often recommended to employ methods that preserve some of the invariant quantities (mass, energy, etc.) of the problem being considered. This recommendation is usually justified on the grounds that conservation of invariant quantities may ensure that the numerical solution possesses some important qualitative features. However there are cases where schemes that preserve invariants are also advantageous in that they possess favourable error propagation mechanisms that render them superior from a quantitative point of view. In the present paper we consider the Korteweg-de Vries equation as a case study. We show rigorously that, for soliton problems and at leading order, the error of conservative schemes consists of a phase error that grows linearly with time plus a complementary term that is bounded in the norm uniformly in time. For ‘general’, nonconservative schemes the error involves a linearly growing amplitude error, a quadratically growing phase error and a complementary term that grows linearly in the norm. Numerical experiments are presented. Received November 21, 1994 / Revised version received July 17, 1995     

The uniqueness of hierarchically extended backward solutions of the Wright–Fisher model

The diffusion approximation of the Wright-Fisher model of population genetics leads to partial differentiable equations, the Kolmogorov forward and backward equations, with a leading term that degenerates at the boundary. This degeneracy has the consequence that standard PDE tools do not apply, and solutions lack regularity properties. In this paper, we develop a regularizing blow-up scheme for the iteratively extended global solutions of the backward Kolmogorov equation presented in a previous paper, which are constructed from a known class of solutions, and establish their uniqueness for the stationary case. As the model describes the random genetic drift of several alleles at the same locus from a backward perspective, the occurring singularities result from the loss of an allele. While in an analytical approach, this provides substantial difficulties, from a biological or geometric perspective, this is a natural process that can be analyzed in detail. The presented scheme regularizes the solution via a carefully constructed iterative transformation of the domain.