Light-Like Extremal Surfaces in Minkowski Space R^1＋（1＋n）

In this paper we investigate the equations for light-like extremal surfaces in Minkowski space R^1＋（1＋n）. We show that the light-like assumption is compatible with the Cauchy problem and give a necessary and sufficient condition on the global existence of classical solutions of the Cauchy problem. Based on this, we obtain entire light-like extremal surfaces by solving the Cauchy problem explicitly when such necessary and sufficient condition holds. Finally, some discussions and related remarks are given.     

A REMARK ON LARGE TIME ASYMTOTICS FOR SOLUTIONS OF A NONHOMOGENEOUS VISCOUS BURGERS EQUATION

The existence, uniqueness and regularity of solutions to the Cauchy problem posed for a nonhomogeneous viscous Burger’s equation were shown in Chung, Kim and Slemrod [1] by assuming suitable conditions on initial data. Moreover, they derived the asymptotic behaviour of solutions of the Cauchy problem by imposing additional conditions on initial data. In this article, we obtain the same asymptotic behaviour of solutions to the Cauchy problem without imposing additional condition on initial data.     

Convergence to diffusion waves for solutions of Euler equations with time-depending damping on quadrant

This paper is concerned with the asymptotic behavior of the solution to the Euler equations with time-depending damping on quadrant(x,t)∈R~+×R~+,with the null-Dirichlet boundary condition or the null-Neumann boundary condition on u. We show that the corresponding initial-boundary value problem admits a unique global smooth solution which tends timeasymptotically to the nonlinear diffusion wave. Compared with the previous work about Euler equations with constant coefficient damping, studied by Nishihara and Yang(1999), and Jiang and Zhu(2009, Discrete Contin Dyn Syst), we obtain a general result when the initial perturbation belongs to the same space. In addition,our main novelty lies in the fact that the cut-off points of the convergence rates are different from our previous result about the Cauchy problem. Our proof is based on the classical energy method and the analyses of the nonlinear diffusion wave.     

关于一类具阻尼项的非线性波方程的Cauchy问题

The paper concerns with the existence, uniqueness and nonexistence of global solution to the Cauchy problem for a class of nonlinear wave equations with damping term. It proves that under suitable assumptions on nonlinear the function and initial data the above-mentioned problem admits a unique global solution by Fourier transform method. The sufficient conditions of nonexistence of the global solution to the above-mentioned problem are given by the concavity method.     

ASYMPTOTIC DECAY TOWARD RAREFACTION WAVE FOR A HYPERBOLIC-ELLIPTIC COUPLED SYSTEM ON HALF SPACE

We consider the asymptotic behavior of solutions to a model of hyperbolicelliptic coupled system on the half-line R＋ = （0, ∞）,with the Dirichlet boundary condition u（0, t） = 0. S. Kawashima and Y. Tanaka [Kyushu J. Math., 58（2004）, 211-250] have shown that the solution to the corresponding Cauchy problem behaviors like rarefaction waves and obtained its convergence rate when u_ u＋. Our main concern in this paper is the boundary effect. In the case of null-Dirichlet boundary condition on u, asymptotic behavior of the solution （u, q） is proved to be rarefaction wave as t tends to infinity. Its convergence rate is also obtained by the standard L2-energy method and Ll-estimate. It decays much lower than that of the corresponding Cauchy problem.     

Asymptotic Stability of Equilibrium State to the Mixed Initial-Boundary Value Problem for Quasilinear Hyperbolic Systems

Under the internal dissipative condition, the Cauchy problem for inhomogeneous quasilinear hyperbolic systems with small initial data admits a unique global C1 solution, which exponentially decays to zero as t → +∞, while if the coefficient matrixΘ of boundary conditions satisfies the boundary dissipative condition, the mixed initialboundary value problem with small initial data for quasilinear hyperbolic systems with nonlinear terms of at least second order admits a unique global C1 solution, which also exponentially decays to zero as t → +∞. In this paper, under more general conditions, the authors investigate the combined effect of the internal dissipative condition and the boundary dissipative condition, and prove the global existence and exponential decay of the C1 solution to the mixed initial-boundary value problem for quasilinear hyperbolic systems with small initial data. This stability result is applied to a kind of models, and an example is given to show the possible exponential instability if the corresponding conditions are not satisfied.     

THE NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS WITH THE KINEMATIC AND VORTICITY BOUNDARY CONDITIONS ON NON-FLAT BOUNDARIES

We study the initial-boundary value problem of the Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible fluids in a general domain in R^n with compact and smooth boundary, subject to the kinematic and vorticity boundary conditions on the non-flat boundary. We observe that, under the nonhomogeneous boundary conditions, the pressure p can be still recovered by solving the Neumann problem for the Poisson equation. Then we establish the well-posedness of the unsteady Stokes equations and employ the solution to reduce our initial-boundary value problem into an initial-boundary value problem with absolute boundary conditions. Based on this, we first establish the well-posedness for an appropriate local linearized problem with the absolute boundary conditions and the initial condition （without the incompressibility condition）, which establishes a velocity mapping. Then we develop apriori estimates for the velocity mapping, especially involving the Sobolev norm for the time-derivative of the mapping to deal with the complicated boundary conditions, which leads to the existence of the fixed point of the mapping and the existence of solutions to our initial-boundary value problem. Finally, we establish that, when the viscosity coefficient tends zero, the strong solutions of the initial-boundary value problem in R^n（n ≥ 3） with nonhomogeneous vorticity boundary condition converge in L^2 to the corresponding Euler equations satisfying the kinematic condition.     

On the Cauchy problem and peakons of a two-component Novikov system

We study a two-component Novikov system, which is integrable and can be viewed as a twocomponent generalization of the Novikov equation with cubic nonlinearity. The primary goal of this paper is to understand how multi-component equations, nonlinear dispersive terms and other nonlinear terms affect the dispersive dynamics and the structure of the peaked solitons. We establish the local well-posedness of the Cauchy problem in Besov spaces B_(p,r)~s with 1 p, r +∞, s max{1 + 1/p, 3/2} and Sobolev spaces Hs(R)with s 3/2, and the method is based on the estimates for transport equations and new invariant properties of the system. Furthermore, the blow-up and wave-breaking phenomena of solutions to the Cauchy problem are studied. A blow-up criterion on solutions of the Cauchy problem is demonstrated. In addition, we show that this system admits single-peaked solitons and multi-peaked solitons on the whole line, and the single-peaked solitons on the circle, which are the weak solutions in both senses of the usual weak form and the weak Lax-pair form of the system.     

GLOBAL EXISTENCE OF WEAKLY DISCONTIN UOUS SOLUTIONS TO THE CAUCHY PROBLEM WITH A KIND OF NON-SMOOTH INITIAL DATA FOR QUASILINEAR HYPERBOLIC SYSTEMS

The authors consider the Cauchy problem with a kind of non-smooth initial datafor quasilinear hyperbolic systems and obtain a necessary and sufficient condition toguarantee the existence and uniqueness of global weakly discontinuous solution.     

D''''ALEMBERT FORMULA AND THE DIRECT OR INVERSE PROBLEMS FOR WAVE EQUATION

In this paper, a new proof of D'Alembert formula for Cauchy problems of wave equation is proposed. And some D'Alembert-type formulas for Cauchy problem with discontinuous coefficients on semi-infinite initial boundary value problem are proposed. Based on above discussion, the c(?)racteristics methods for the direct and inverse problems of the stress wave equation for uniform layerad elastic medium are investigated. The aim of this paper is to stress the significance and application of the characteristics concept and approach.     

The generalized Cauchy problem with data on two surfaces for a quasilinear analytic system

We consider the generalized Cauchy problem with data on two surfaces for a second-order quasilinear analytic system. The distinction of the generalized Cauchy problem from the traditional statement of the Cauchy problem is that the initial conditions for different unknown functions are given on different surfaces: for each unknown function we pose its own initial condition on its own coordinate axis. Earlier, the generalized Cauchy problem was considered in the works of C. Riquier, N. M. Gyunter, S. L. Sobolev, N. A. Lednev, V. M. Teshukov, and S. P. Bautin. In this article we construct a solution to the generalized Cauchy problem in the case when the system of partial differential equations additionally contains the values of the derivatives of the unknown functions (in particular outer derivatives) given on the coordinate axes. The last circumstance is a principal distinction of the problem in the present article from the generalized Cauchy problems studied earlier.     

On a nonlinear heat equation with functional dependence

We reduce the Cauchy problem for a heat equation with the nonlinear right-hand side which depends on some functionals to an equivalent integral equation. Considering mainly Banach spaces of continuous, bounded and exponentially bounded functions, we give some natural sufficient conditions for the existence and uniqueness of solutions to these equations. We give a counterexample which shows that the Lipschitz condition is, in general, insufficient for the Cauchy problem with unbounded data and with functional dependence to guarantee an existence result     

Approximation of tricomi problem with Neumann boundary condition

Summary The Tricomi problem with Neumann boundary condition is reduced to a degenerate problem in the elliptic region with a non-local boundary condition and to a Cauchy problem in the hyperbolic region. A variational formulation is given to the elliptic problem and a finite element approximation is studied. Also some regularity results in weighted Sobolev spaces are discussed.     

Remarks on the Cauchy problem for first order hyperbolic systems with constant coefficient principal part

Abstract In this article we shall introduce the results obtained in [16], i.e., we shall give a necessary and sufficient condition that the Cauchy problem for first order hyperbolic systems with constant coefficient principal part is C^∞ well-posed under the maximal rank condition (see the condition (R) below). We shall also give a simple sufficient condition without any assumptions on the rank. Keywords: Hyperbolic system, Cauchy problem, Constant coefficient principal part     

Formulation and well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for a diffusion equation with discontinuous degenerating coefficients

The choice of a differential diffusion operator with discontinuous coefficients that corresponds to a finite flow velocity and a finite concentration is substantiated. For the equation with a uniformly elliptic operator and a nonzero diffusion coefficient, conditions are established for the existence and uniqueness of a solution to the corresponding Cauchy problem. For the diffusion equation with degeneration on a half-line, it is proved that the Cauchy problem with an arbitrary initial condition has a unique solution if and only if there is no flux from the degeneration domain to the ellipticity domain of the operator. Under this condition, a sequence of solutions to regularized problems is proved to converge uniformly to the solution of the degenerate problem in L ₁(R) on each interval.     

Convergence in the form of a solution to the Cauchy problem for a quasilinear parabolic equation with a monotone initial condition to a system of waves

The time asymptotic behavior of a solution to the initial Cauchy problem for a quasilinear parabolic equation is investigated. Such equations arise, for example, in traffic flow modeling. The main result of this paper is the proof of the previously formulated conjecture that, if a monotone initial function has limits at plus and minus infinity, then the solution to the Cauchy problem converges in form to a system of traveling and rarefaction waves; furthermore, the phase shifts of the traveling waves may depend on time. It is pointed out that the monotonicity condition can be replaced with the boundedness condition.     

一类大气演化方程组的Cauchy问题

在分层理论的框架下讨论一类大气演化方程组的Cauchy问题,证明了:1) 惯性力对一类大气演化方程组Cauchy问题的适定性判别标准没有影响;2) 可压缩性对粘性大气方程组Cauchy问题的适定性判别标准没有影响,但对无粘大气方程组,可压缩性改变Cauchy问题适定性判别标准;3) 所论方程组在t=0超平面上的Cauchy问题均是不适定的,并不受粘性和可压缩性的影响;4) 可压无粘大气方程与运动静止初始条件构成的Cauchy问题是不适定的．     

The Cauchy problem for a semi-infinite Volterra chain with an asymptotically periodic initial condition

We examine the Cauchy problem for a semi-infinite Volterra chain with an asymptotically periodic initial condition. The question is addressed of existence of a solution with the same asymptotics at infinity as the initial condition. We demonstrate that the method of the inverse scattering problem is applicable to this problem.     

Asymptotic Solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi Equations with State Constraints

We study Hamilton-Jacobi equations in a bounded domain with the state constraint boundary condition. We establish a general convergence result for viscosity solutions of the Cauchy problem for Hamilton-Jacobi equations with the state constraint boundary condition to asymptotic solutions as time goes to infinity.     

Well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for multidimensional difference equations in rational cones

The Cauchy problem is studied for a multidimensional difference equation in a class of functions defined at the integer points of a rational cone. We give an easy-to-check condition on the coefficients of the characteristic polynomial of the equation sufficient for solvability of the problem. A multidimensional analog of the condition ensuring stability of the Cauchy problem is stated on using the notion of amoeba of an algebraic hypersurface.