Asymptotic Behaviour and Global Existence of Solutions for Some Classes of Nonlinear Parabolic Equations

The paper deals with the asymptotic behaviour and global existence of solutions for some classes of nonlinear parabolic equations in regard to the monotone properties of the nonlinear term. The asymptotic behaviour of the solutions of initial-boundary value problem for nonlinear parabolic equations is studied via the method of differential inequalities in order to obtain oscillation criterion for the solutions. Existence of extremal solutions of semilinear elliptic and parabolic equations is investigated via monotone iterative methods. The extremal solutions are obtained via monotone iterates.     

EXISTENCE OF EXTREME SOLUTION TO FIRST-ORDER IMPULSIVE DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS WITH NONLINEAR BOUNDARY CONDITIONS

This paper is concerned with the existence of extreme solutions to three-point boundary value problems with nonlinear boundary conditions for a class of first order impulsive differential equations. We obtain suficient conditions for the existence of extreme solutions by the upper and lower solutions method coupled with a monotone iterative technique.     

MIXED MONOTONE ITERATIVE TECHNIQUES FOR SEMILINEAR EVOLUTION EQUATIONS IN BANACH SPACES

This paper is concerned with initial value problems for semilinear evolution equations in Banach spaces. The abstract iterative schemes are constructed by combining the theory of semigroups of linear operators and the method of mixed monotone iterations. Some existence results on minimal and maximal (quasi)solutions are established for abstract semilinear evolution equations with mixed monotone or mixed quasimonotone nonlinear terms. To illustrate the main results, applications to ordinary differential equations and partial differential equations are also given.     

Stability and attractivity of periodic solutions of parabolic systems with time delays

This paper is concerned with the existence, stability, and global attractivity of time-periodic solutions for a class of coupled parabolic equations in a bounded domain. The problem under consideration includes coupled system of parabolic and ordinary differential equations, and time delays may appear in the nonlinear reaction functions. Our approach to the problem is by the method of upper and lower solutions and its associated monotone iterations. The existence of time-periodic solutions is for a class of locally Lipschitz continuous reaction functions without any quasimonotone requirement using Schauder fixed point theorem, while the stability and attractivity analysis is for quasimonotone nondecreasing and mixed quasimonotone reaction functions using the monotone iterative scheme. The results for the general system are applied to the standard parabolic equations without time delay and to the corresponding ordinary differential system. Applications are also given to three Lotka-Volterra reaction diffusion model problems, and in each problem a sufficient condition on the reaction rates is obtained to ensure the stability and global attractivity of positive periodic solutions.     

Numerical methods for coupled systems of quasilinear elliptic equations with nonlinear boundary conditions

This paper is concerned with numerical solutions of a coupled system of arbitrary number of quasilinear elliptic equations under combined Dirichlet and nonlinear boundary conditions. A finite difference system for a transformed system of the quasilinear equations is formulated, and three monotone iterative schemes for the computation of numerical solutions are given using the method of upper and lower solutions. It is shown that each of the three monotone iterations converges to a minimal solution or a maximal solution depending on whether the initial iteration is a lower solution or an upper solution. A comparison result among the three iterative schemes is given. Also shown is the convergence of the minimal and maximal discrete solutions to the corresponding minimal and maximal solutions of the continuous system as the mesh size tends to zero. These results are applied to a heat transfer problem with temperature dependent thermal conductivity and a Lotka-Volterra cooperation system with degenerate diffusion. This degenerate property leads to some interesting distinct property of the system when compared with the non-degenerate semilinear systems. Numerical results are given to the above problems, and in each problem an explicit continuous solution is constructed and is used to compare with the computed solution     

A modified quasi‐Newton diagonal update algorithm for total variation denoising problems and nonlinear monotone equations with applications in compressive sensing

In this paper, we present a new algorithm to accelerate the Chambolle gradient projection method for total variation image restoration. The new proposed method considers an approximation of the Hessian based on the secant equation. Combined with the quasi‐Cauchy equations and diagonal updating, we can obtain a positive definite diagonal matrix. In the proposed minimization method model, we use the positive definite diagonal matrix instead of the constant time stepsize in Chambolle's method. The global convergence of the proposed scheme is proved. Some numerical results illustrate the efficiency of this method. Moreover, we also extend the quasi‐Newton diagonal updating method to solve nonlinear systems of monotone equations. Performance comparisons show that the proposed method is efficient. A practical application of the monotone equations is shown and tested on sparse signal reconstruction in compressed sensing. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Indecomposable quasi‐characteristics scheme on pyramidal stencil and its application for numerical simulation of two‐phase flows through heterogeneous porous medium

A new high‐resolution indecomposable quasi‐characteristics scheme with monotone properties based on pyramidal stencil is considered. This scheme is based on consideration of two high‐resolution numerical schemes approximated governing equations on the pyramidal stencil with different kinds of dispersion terms approximation. Two numerical solutions obtained by these schemes are analyzed, and the final solution is chosen according to the special criterion to provide the monotone properties in regions where discontinuities of solutions could arise. This technique allows to construct the high‐order monotone solutions and keeps both the monotone properties and the high‐order approximation in regions with discontinuities of solutions. The selection criterion has a local character suitable for parallel computation. Application of the proposed technique to the solution of the time‐dependent 2D two‐phase flows through the porous media with the essentially heterogeneous properties is considered, and some numerical results are presented. © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq 18: 44–55, 2002     

Nonlinear fourth-order elliptic equations with nonlocal boundary conditions

This paper is concerned with a class of fourth-order nonlinear elliptic equations with nonlocal boundary conditions, including a multi-point boundary condition in a bounded domain of Rn. Also considered is a second-order elliptic equation with nonlocal boundary condition, and the usual multi-point boundary problem in ordinary differential equations. The aim of the paper is to show the existence of maximal and minimal solutions, the uniqueness of a positive solution, and the method of construction for these solutions. Our approach to the above problems is by the method of upper and lower solutions and its associated monotone iterations. The monotone iterative schemes can be developed into computational algorithms for numerical solutions of the problem by either the finite difference method or the finite element method.     

二阶微分方程反周期边值问题解的存在性

在这篇文章中,我们考虑了一类非线性二阶常微分方程反周期边值问题．利用上下解方法结合单调迭代技巧,我们得到了解的存在性结果．     

二阶脉冲泛函微分方程非线性边值问题

通过上下解和单调迭代技术讨论了二阶脉冲泛函微分方程非线性边值问题极值解的存在性,推广了相关文献的结果.     

非线性算子方程迭代解的存在性定理及其应用

在Ｂａｎａｃｈ空间中,利用锥理论和单调迭代方法研究了一类非线性算子方程的解和最小最大耦合解的存在与迭代逼近定理,并应用到Ｂａｎａｃｈ空间中非线性Ｖｏｌｔｅｒｒａ型积分方程和常微分方程的初值问题．     

Convergence of coercive approximations for a model of gradient type in poroplasticity

We study the existence theory to the quasi‐static initial‐boundary‐value problem of poroplasticity. In this article the classical quasi‐static Biot model is considered for soil consolidation coupled with a nonlinear system of differential equations. This work, for the poroplasticity model of monotone‐gradient type, presents a convergence result of the coercive approximation to the solution of the original noncoercive problem. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

一阶脉冲泛函微分方程非线性边值问题

考虑一阶脉冲泛函微分方程非线性边值问题,利用上下解方法和单调迭代技术得到了耦合解和唯一解存在的充分条件.所得结果改进和推广了文献的相关结果.     

Numerical methods for fourth‐order nonlinear elliptic boundary value problems

The aim of this article is to present several computational algorithms for numerical solutions of a nonlinear finite difference system that represents a finite difference approximation of a class of fourth‐order elliptic boundary value problems. The numerical algorithms are based on the method of upper and lower solutions and its associated monotone iterations. Three linear monotone iterative schemes are given, and each iterative scheme yields two sequences, which converge monotonically from above and below, respectively, to a maximal solution and a minimal solution of the finite difference system. This monotone convergence property leads to upper and lower bounds of the solution in each iteration as well as an existence‐comparison theorem for the finite difference system. Sufficient conditions for the uniqueness of the solution and some techniques for the construction of upper and lower solutions are obtained, and numerical results for a two‐point boundary‐value problem with known analytical solution are given. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq 17:347–368, 2001     

抽象锥中积分—微分方程的耦合拟解及单调迭代方法

本文利用微分方程、积分方程的耦合上、下拟解 ,借助于单调迭代法 ,讨论了非线性 Volterra型积分—微分方程的耦合极拟解问题     

NONLINEAR BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS FOR FIRST ORDER DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS WITH PIECEWISE CONSTANT ARGUMENTS

The authors employ the method of upper and lower solutions coupled with the monotone iterative technique to obtain some results of existence and un-iqueness for nonlinear boundary value problem of differential equations with piecewise constant arguments.     

Existence and asymptotic behavior of solutions for quasilinear parabolic systems

This paper is concerned with the existence, uniqueness, and asymptotic behavior of solutions for the quasilinear parabolic systems with mixed quasimonotone reaction functions, the elliptic operators in which are allowed to be degenerate. By the method of the coupled upper and lower solutions, and its monotone iterations, it shows that a pair of coupled upper and lower solutions ensures that the unique positive solution exists and globally stable if the quasisolutions are equal. Moreover, we study the asymptotic behavior of solutions to the Lotka–Volterra model with the density‐dependent diffusion. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A block monotone iterative method for numerical solutions of nonlinear elliptic boundary value problems

The aim of this article is to develop a new block monotone iterative method for the numerical solutions of a nonlinear elliptic boundary value problem. The boundary value problem is discretized into a system of nonlinear algebraic equations, and a block monotone iterative method is established for the system using an upper solution or a lower solution as the initial iteration. The sequence of iterations can be computed in a parallel fashion and converge monotonically to a maximal solution or a minimal solution of the system. Three theoretical comparison results are given for the sequences from the proposed method and the block Jacobi monotone iterative method. The comparison results show that the sequence from the proposed method converges faster than the corresponding sequence given by the block Jacobi monotone iterative method. A simple and easily verified condition is obtained to guarantee a geometric convergence of the block monotone iterations. The numerical results demonstrate advantages of this new approach. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq, 2011     

Monotone iterative methods for finite difference system of reaction-diffusion equations

Summary This paper presents an existence-comparison theorem and an iterative method for a nonlinear finite difference system which corresponds to a class of semilinear parabolic and elliptic boundary-value problems. The basic idea of the iterative method for the computation of numerical solutions is the monotone approach which involves the notion of upper and lower solutions and the construction of monotone sequences from a suitable linear discrete system. Using upper and lower solutions as two distinct initial iterations, two monotone sequences from a suitable linear system are constructed. It is shown that these two sequences converge monotonically from above and below, respectively, to a unique solution of the nonlinear discrete equations. This formulation leads to a well-posed problem for the nonlinear discrete system. Applications are given to several models arising from physical, chemical and biological systems. Numerical results are given to some of these models including a discussion on the rate of convergence of the monotone sequences.     

MONOTONE ITERATION FOR ELLIPTIC PDEs WITH DISCONTINUOUS NONLINEAR TERMS

In this paper, we use monotone iterative techniques to show the existence of maximal or minimal solutions of some elliptic PDEs with nonlinear discontinuous terms. As the numerical analysis of this PDEs is concerned, we prove the convergence of discrete extremal solutions.