A boundary-value problem for the biharmonic equation and the iterated Laplacian in a 3D-domain with an edge |
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Authors: | S A Nazarov G H Sweers |
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Institution: | (1) Institute of Applied Mechanical Engineering RAN, Russia;(2) Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics EWI, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | Let Ω be a domain with piecewise smooth boundary. In general, it is impossible to obtain a generalized solution u ∈ W
2
2
(Ω) of the equation Δ
x
2
u = f with the boundary conditions u = Δxu = 0 by solving iteratively a system of two Poisson equations under homogeneous Dirichlet conditions. Such a system is obtained
by setting v = −Δu. In the two-dimensional case, this fact is known as the Sapongyan paradox in the theory of simply supported
polygonal plates. In the present paper, the three-dimensional problem is investigated for a domain with a smooth edge Γ. If
the variable opening angle α ∈ C∞(Γ) is less than π everywhere on the edge, then the boundary-value problem for the biharmonic equation is equivalent to the
iterated Dirichlet problem, and its solution u inherits the positivity preserving property from these problems. In the case
α ∈ (π 2π), the procedure of solving the two Dirichlet problems must be modified by permitting infinite-dimensional kernel
and co-kernel of the operators and determining the solution u ∈ W
2
2
(Ω) by inverting a certain integral operator on the contour Γ. If α(s) ∈ (3π/2,2π) for a point s ∈ Γ, then there exists a
nonnegative function f ∈ L2(Ω) for which the solution u changes sign inside the domain Ω. In the case of crack (α = 2π everywhere on Γ), one needs to
introduce a special scale of weighted function spaces. In this case, the positivity preserving property fails. In some geometrical
situations, the problems on well-posedness for the boundary-value problem for the biharmonic equation and the positivity property
remain open. Bibliography: 46 titles.
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Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov POMI, Vol. 336, 2006, pp. 153–198. |
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