A gradient estimate for all positive solutions of the conjugate heat equation under Ricci flow

We establish a point-wise gradient estimate for all positive solutions of the conjugate heat equation. This contrasts to Perelman's point-wise gradient estimate which works mainly for the fundamental solution rather than all solutions. Like Perelman's estimate, the most general form of our gradient estimate does not require any curvature assumption. Moreover, assuming only lower bound on the Ricci curvature, we also prove a localized gradient estimate similar to the Li-Yau estimate for the linear Schrödinger heat equation. The main difference with the linear case is that no assumptions on the derivatives of the potential (scalar curvature) are needed. A classical Harnack inequality follows.     

A Stefan problem for a non-classical heat equation with a convective condition

We prove the existence and uniqueness, local in time, of the solution of a one-phase Stefan problem for a non-classical heat equation for a semi-infinite material with a convective boundary condition at the fixed face x = 0. Here the heat source depends on the temperature at the fixed face x = 0 that provides a heating or cooling effect depending on the properties of the source term. We use the Friedman-Rubinstein integral representation method and the Banach contraction theorem in order to solve an equivalent system of two Volterra integral equations. We also obtain a comparison result of the solution (the temperature and the free boundary) with respect to the one corresponding with null source term.     

More around Cattaneo equation to describe heat transfer processes

We revisit Cattaneo's derivation of the equation describing heat transfer and bearing his name, finding a more elaborated model equation, that we will compare with the time-lagged model. This equation does not comply with the second law of thermodynamics, as well as Cattaneo equation. The latter, however, is known to have provided meaningful results in certain experiments conducted in some liquids and solids at very low temperature. These experiments also match the results given by a nonlinear model proposed by A. Morro and T. Ruggeri in 1988, which instead does meet the laws of thermodynamics. A comparison is made with such a model too.     

Numerical studies of a nonlinear heat equation with square root reaction term

Interest in calculating numerical solutions of a highly nonlinear parabolic partial differential equation with fractional power diffusion and dissipative terms motivated our investigation of a heat equation having a square root nonlinear reaction term. The original equation occurs in the study of plasma behavior in fusion physics. We begin by examining the numerical behavior of the ordinary differential equation obtained by dropping the diffusion term. The results from this simpler case are then used to construct nonstandard finite difference schemes for the partial differential equation. A variety of numerical results are obtained and analyzed, along with a comparison to the numerics of both standard and several nonstandard schemes. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq, 2009     

Numerical solution of the one‐dimensional heat equation on the bounded intervals using fundamental solutions

We present a numerical method for the solution of heat equation with sufficiently smooth initial condition, using fundamental solutions of heat equation in terms of singularities. In this work various aspects of this method such as efficiency, stability, and convergency are given and a comparison with some well‐known finite difference methods will be obtained. Numerical results are reported to support the superiority of the developed method. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq, 2008     

傅立叶超函数和扩充傅立叶超函数与爱米特热方程

证明了傅立叶超函数和扩充傅立叶超函数可用爱米特热方程的解来表示,且用以表示的解有很良好的性质.     

Rough hypoellipticity for the heat equation in Dirichlet spaces

This paper aims at proving the local boundedness and continuity of solutions of the heat equation in the context of Dirichlet spaces under some rather weak additional assumptions. We consider symmetric local regular Dirichlet forms, which satisfy mild assumptions concerning (1) the existence of cut-off functions, (2) a local ultracontractivity hypothesis, and (3) a weak off-diagonal upper bound. In this setting, local weak solutions of the heat equation, and their time derivatives, are shown to be locally bounded; they are further locally continuous, if the semigroup admits a locally continuous density function. Applications of the results are provided including discussions on the existence of locally bounded heat kernel; $L^{\infty }$ structure results for ancient (local weak) solutions of the heat equation.     

Nonlocal transformations of Kolmogorov equations into the backward heat equation

We extend and solve the classical Kolmogorov problem of finding general classes of Kolmogorov equations that can be transformed to the backward heat equation. These new classes include Kolmogorov equations with time-independent and time-dependent coefficients. Our main idea is to include nonlocal transformations. We describe a step-by-step algorithm for determining such transformations. We also show how all previously known results arise as particular cases in this wider framework.     

Probabilistic representations of solutions to the heat equation

In this paper we provide a new (probabilistic) proof of a classical result in partial differential equations, viz. if ϕ is a tempered distribution, then the solution of the heat equation for the Laplacian, with initial condition ϕ, is given by the convolution of ϕ with the heat kernel (Gaussian density). Our results also extend the probabilistic representation of solutions of the heat equation to initial conditions that are arbitrary tempered distributions.     

Exact controllability of the heat equation with bilinear control

This paper deals with exact controllability of bilinear heat equation. Namely, given the initial state, we would like to provide a class of target states that can be achieved through the heat equation at a finite time by applying multiplicative controls. For this end, an explicit control strategy is constructed. Simulations are provided. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Poisson Equation on Some Complete Noncompact Manifolds

We study the Poisson equation on some complete noncompact manifolds with asymptotically nonnegative curvature. We will also study the limiting behavior of the nonhomogeneous heat equation on some complete noncompact manifolds with nonnegative curvature.     

The thermostat problem with a nonlocal nonlinear boundary condition

The thermostat controller for an air-conditioning system isusually placed in a position at some distance from the unitand this can lead to large swings in temperature. This paperaddresses this question by studying a paradigm—a one-dimensionalheat conduction equation with and without heat loss, and wherethe flux of heat extracted or input by the unit is consideredto be a function of the temperature at the other end. The essential results are that the system can be unstable andthat this is exacerbated both by a more powerful air-conditioningunit and by more efficient insulation.     

Global Approximately Controllability and Finite Dimensional Exact Controllability of Semilinear Heat Equation in <Emphasis Type="Italic">R</Emphasis><Superscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">N</Emphasis></Superscript>

We prove the approxomate controllability and finite dimensional exact controllability of semilinear heat equation in R^N with the same control by introducing the weighted Soblev spaces.     

On a Conserved Penrose-Fife Type System

We deal with a class of Penrose-Fife type phase field models for phase transitions, where the phase dynamics is ruled by a Cahn-Hilliard type equation. Suitable assumptions on the behaviour of the heat flux as the absolute temperature tends to zero and to +∞ are considered. An existence result is obtained by a double approximation procedure and compactness methods. Moreover, uniqueness and regularity results are proved as well. The authors would like to acknowledge financial support from MIUR through COFIN grants and from the IMATI of the CNR, Pavia, Italy.     

On an inverse problem of reconstructing a subdiffusion process from nonlocal data

We consider a problem of modeling the thermal diffusion process in a closed metal wire wrapped around a thin sheet of insulation material. The layer of insulation is assumed to be slightly permeable. Therefore, the temperature value from one side affects the diffusion process on the other side. For this reason, the standard heat equation is modified, and a third term with an involution is added. Modeling of this process leads to the consideration of an inverse problem for a one‐dimensional fractional evolution equation with involution and with periodic boundary conditions with respect to a space variable. This equation interpolates heat equation. Such equations are also called nonlocal subdiffusion equations or nonlocal heat equations. The inverse problem consists in the restoration (simultaneously with the solution) of the unknown right‐hand side of the equation, which depends only on the spatial variable. The conditions for overdefinition are initial and final states. Existence and uniqueness results for the given problem are obtained via the method of separation of variables.     

Interpolating Between Li-Yau's and Hamilton's Harnack Inequalities on a Surface

We establish a one-parameter family of Harnack inequalities connecting Li and Yau's differential Harnack inequality for the heat equation to Hamilton's Harnack inequality for the Ricci flow on a 2-dimensional manifold with positive scalar curvature.     

Nonlinear wavelet methods for high-dimensional backward heat equation

The backward heat equation is a typical ill-posed problem. In this paper, we shall apply a dual least squares method connecting Shannon wavelet to the following equation ut (x, y, t) = u xx (x, y, t) + uyy (x, y, t), x ∈ R, y ∈ R, 0 ≤ t 1, u(x, y, 1) = (x, y), x ∈ R, y ∈ R. Motivated by Regińska's work, we shall give two nonlinear approximate methods to regularize the approximate solutions for high-dimensional backward heat equation, and prove that our methods are convergent.     

A procedure for determining a spacewise dependent heat source and the initial temperature

The inverse problem of determining a spacewise dependent heat source, together with the initial temperature for the parabolic heat equation, using the usual conditions of the direct problem and information from two supplementary temperature measurements at different instants of time is studied. These spacewise dependent temperature measurements ensure that this inverse problem has a unique solution, despite the solution being unstable, hence the problem is ill-posed. We propose an iterative algorithm for the stable reconstruction of both the initial data and the source based on a sequence of well-posed direct problems for the parabolic heat equation, which are solved at each iteration step using the boundary element method. The instability is overcome by stopping the iterations at the first iteration for which the discrepancy principle is satisfied. Numerical results are presented for a typical benchmark test example, which has the input measured data perturbed by increasing amounts of random noise. The numerical results show that the proposed procedure gives accurate numerical approximations in relatively few iterations.