Decomposition theorems and fine estimates for electrical fields in the presence of closely located circular inclusions

When two inclusions get closer and their conductivities degenerate to zero or infinity, the gradient of the solution to the conductivity equation blows up in general. In this paper, we show that the solution to the conductivity equation can be decomposed into two parts in an explicit form: one of them has a bounded gradient and the gradient of the other part blows up. Using the decomposition, we derive the best possible estimates for the blow-up of the gradient. We then consider the case when the inclusions have positive permittivities. We show quantitatively that in this case the size of the blow-up is reduced.     

Asymptotics of the solution to the conductivity equation in the presence of adjacent circular inclusions with finite conductivities

We consider the conductivity problem in the presence of adjacent circular inclusions with constant conductivities. When two inclusions get closer and their conductivities degenerate to zero or infinity, the gradient of the solution can be arbitrary large. In this paper we derive an asymptotic formula of the solution, which characterizes the gradient blow-up of the solution in terms of conductivities of inclusions as well as the distance between inclusions. The asymptotic formula is expressed in bipolar coordinates in terms of the Lerch transcendent function, and it is valid for inclusions with arbitrary constant conductivities. We illustrate our results with numerical calculations.     

Effects of reactive gradient term in a multi-nonlinear parabolic problem

This paper deals with parabolic equation ut=Δu+r|∇u|−aepu subject to nonlinear boundary flux ∂u/∂η=equ, where r>1, p,q,a>0. There are two positive sources (the gradient reaction and the boundary flux) and a negative one (the absorption) in the model. It is well known that blow-up or not of solutions depends on which one dominating the model, the positive or negative sources, and furthermore on the absorption coefficient for the balance case of them. The aim of the paper is to study the influence of the reactive gradient term on the asymptotic behavior of solutions. We at first determine the critical blow-up exponent, and then obtain the blow-up rate, the blow-up set as well as the spatial blow-up profile for blow-up solutions in the one-dimensional case. It turns out that the gradient term makes a substantial contribution to the formation of blow-up if and only if r?2, where the critical r=2 is such a balance situation of the two positive sources for which the effects of the gradient reaction and the boundary source are at the same level. In addition, it is observed that the gradient term with r>2 significantly affects the blow-up rate also. In fact, the gained blow-up rates themselves contain the exponent r of the gradient term. Moreover, the blow-up rate may be discontinuous with respect to parameters included in the problem due to convection. As for the influence of gradient perturbations on spatial blow-up profiles, we only need some coefficients related to r for the profile estimates, while the exponent of the profile itself is r-independent. This seems natural for boundary blow-up solutions that the spatial profiles mainly rely on the exponent of the boundary singularity.     

A priori estimates, existence and non-existence of positive solutions of generalized mean curvature equations

This paper concerns a priori estimates and existence of solutions of generalized mean curvature equations with Dirichlet boundary value conditions in smooth domains. Using the blow-up method with the Liouville-type theorem of the p laplacian equation, we obtain a priori bounds and the estimates of interior gradient for all solutions. The existence of positive solutions is derived by the topological method. We also consider the non-existence of solutions by Pohozaev identities.     

Gradient Estimates of Solutions to the Conductivity Problem with Flatter Insulators

We study the insulated conductivity problem with inclusions embedded in a bounded domain in R~n. When the distance of inclusions, denoted by ε, goes to 0, the gradient of solutions may blow up. When two inclusions are strictly convex, it was known that an upper bound of the blow-up rate is of order ε~(-1/2) for n = 2, and is of order ε~(-1/2+β)for some β 0 when dimension n ≥ 3. In this paper, we generalize the above results for insulators with flatter boundaries near touching points.     

Blow-up of Electric Fields between Closely Spaced Spherical Perfect Conductors

The electric field increases toward infinity in the narrow region between closely adjacent perfect conductors as they approach each other. Much attention has been devoted to the blow-up estimate, especially in two dimensions, for the practical relevance to high stress concentration in fiber-reinforced elastic composites. In this paper, we establish optimal estimates for the electric field associated with the distance between two spherical conductors in n-dimensional spaces for n ≥ 2. The novelty of these estimates is that they explicitly describe the dependency of the blow-up rate on the geometric parameters: the radii of the conductors.     

含梯度项的椭圆方程组的边界爆破解

研究了含梯度项的椭圆方程组的边界爆破解的性质,其中权函数a(x),b(x)为正并且满足一定的条件.利用上下解的方法及比较原则证明了正解的存在性与唯一性,并得到了边界爆破速率的估计.     

Gradient estimates for solutions to the conductivity problem

In this paper we derive very precise gradient estimates for solutions to the conductivity problem in the case where two circular conductivity inclusions are very close but not touching. The novelty of these estimates is that they give very specific information about the blow up of the gradient as the conductivities of the inclusions degenerate.Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 35J25, 73C40     

On a generalized Camassa–Holm equation with the flow generated by velocity and its gradient

In this paper, we consider a generalized Camassa–Holm equation with the flow generated by the vector field and its gradient. We first establish the local well-posedness of equation in the sense of Hadamard in both critical Besov spaces and supercritical Besov spaces. Then we gain a blow-up criterion. Under a sign condition we reach the sign-preserved property and a precise blow-up criterion. Applying this precise criterion we finally present two blow-up results and the precise blow-up rate for strong solutions to equation.     

Optimal bound on high stresses occurring between stiff fibers with arbitrary shaped cross-sections

We consider high stresses in stiff-fiber reinforced materials, which increase rapidly as fibers approximate to one another. This paper presents the optimal blow-up rate of the stresses with respect to the distance between a pair of stiff fibers in R³. The blow-up result plays an important role in our understanding of low strengths of fiber-reinforced composites. Referring to a problem of anti-plane shear, the stresses can be interpreted as the electric fields outside closely spaced perfect conductors in R², under the action of applied electric field ∇H. It has been shown by Ammari, Kang et al. that in the particular case of circular inclusions, the electric field blows up at the optimal rate ?−1/2 as ?→0, where ? is the distance between conductors. Recently, Yun has extended the blow-up result to pairs of conductors associated with a large class of shapes whose complements can be transformed conformally to the outside of a circle with C² mapping. However, it presented a suboptimal result that only for a special uniform field ∇H=(1,0), the electric fields blow up at the exact rate ?−1/2. In this paper, an upper bound with the rate ?−1/2 of electric field for any harmonic function H is established. This yields the optimal blow-up rate ?−1/2 for the inclusions in the same class of shapes as Yun.     

Partial regularity of suitable weak solutions to the incompressible magnetohydrodynamic equations

In this paper, we study the local behavior of the solutions to the three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic equations. we are interested in both the uniform gradient estimates for smooth solutions and regularity of weak solutions. It is shown that, in some neighborhood of (x₀,t₀), the gradients of the velocity field u and the magnetic field B are locally uniformly bounded in L^∞ norm as long as that either the scaled local L²-norm of the gradient or the scaled local total energy of the velocity field is small, and the scaled local total energy of the magnetic field is uniformly bounded. These estimates indicate that the velocity field plays a more dominant role than that of the magnetic field in the regularity theory. As an immediately corollary we can derive an estimates of Hausdorff dimension on the possible singular set of a suitable weak solution as in the case of pure fluid. Various partial regularity results are obtained as consequences of our blow-up estimates.     

Mathematical simulation of an irregular waveguide with reentering edges

A mathematical model is proposed to study an irregular waveguide with reentering edges. Theoretical estimates for the behavior of the solution near the reentrant corners are used to estimate the rate of convergence of the numerical solution to the exact one. The mode structure of the waveguide field is analyzed.     

Virial type blow-up solutions for the Zakharov system with magnetic field in a cold plasma

In this paper, we study blow-up solutions of virial type to the Zakharov system with magnetic field in a cold plasma in RN (N=2,3). After obtaining some a priori estimates on those terms generated by the magnetic field, we obtain a virial type blow-up result to the system under consideration. The result suggests that the magnetic field in a cold plasma doesn?t affect the virial type blow-up character of the Zakharov system.     

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.     

Blow-up estimates for system of heat equations coupled via nonlinear boundary flux

This paper deals with a system of heat equations coupled via nonlinear boundary flux. The precise blow-up rate estimates are established together with the blow-up set. It is observed that there is some quantitative relationship regarding the blow-up properties between the heat system with coupled nonlinear boundary flux terms and the corresponding reaction–diffusion system with the same nonlinear terms as the source.     

Blow-up in systems with nonlinear viscosity

Sufficient conditions for the blow-up of solutions of the hydrodynamic systems proposed by Ladyzhenskaya in 1966 with nonlinear viscosity and exterior sources are obtained. Questions relating to local solvability and uniqueness are answered using the finite-dimensional Galerkin approximation method The energy method, which was first applied to hydrodynamic systems by Korpusov and Sveshnikov, is used to obtain estimates of the blow-up time and blow-up rate. The determining role of nonlinear exterior sources, not viscous or hydrodynamic nonlinearity, on the occurrence of the blow-up effect is shown.     

Blow-up solutions to a system of nonlinear Volterra equations

A system of nonlinear Volterra integral equations with convolution kernels is considered. Estimates are given for the blow-up time when conditions are such that the solution is known to become unbounded in finite time. For two examples that arise in combustion problems, numerical estimates of blow-up time are presented. Additionally, the asymptotic behavior of the blow-up solution in the key limit is established for the power-law and exponential nonlinearity cases.     

Blow-up for Joseph–Egri equation: Theoretical approach and numerical analysis

This work develops the theory of the blow-up phenomena for Joseph–Egri equation. The existence of the nonextendable solution of two initial-boundary value problems (on a segment and a half-line) is demonstrated. Sufficient conditions of the finite-time blow-up of these solutions, as well as the analytical estimates of the blow-up time, are obtained. A numerical method that allows to precise the blow-up moment for specified initial data is proposed.     

Geometric BVPs, Hardy spaces, and the Cauchy integral and transform on regions with corners

In this paper we give a new perspective on the Cauchy integral and transform and Hardy spaces for Dirac-type operators on manifolds with corners of codimension two. Instead of considering Banach or Hilbert spaces, we use polyhomogeneous functions on a geometrically “blown-up” version of the manifold called the total boundary blow-up introduced by Mazzeo and Melrose [R.R. Mazzeo, R.B. Melrose, Analytic surgery and the eta invariant, Geom. Funct. Anal. 5 (1) (1995) 14-75]. These polyhomogeneous functions are smooth everywhere on the original manifold except at the corners where they have a “Taylor series” (with possible log terms) in polar coordinates. The main application of our analysis is a complete Fredholm theory for boundary value problems of Dirac operators on manifolds with corners of codimension two.