NORM CALCULATIONS OF A CLASS OF INTEGRAL OPERATORS

In this paper we calculate the norm of a special class of integral operators acting on LP （C^n, dvs）, where dvs is the Gaussian measure on C^n.     

An Extension of Chebyshev＇s Maximum Principle to Several Variables

In this article, we generalize Chebyshev＇s maximum principle to several variables. Some analogous maximum formulae for the special integration functional are given. A sufficient condition of the existence of Chebyshev＇s maximum principle is also obtained.     

Sto chastic Nonlinear Beam Equations with Levy Jump

In this paper, we study stochastic nonlinear beam equations with Levy jump, and use Lyapunov functions to prove existence of global mild solutions and asymptotic stability of the zero solution.     

A STOPPING CRITERION FOR HIGHER-ORDER SWEEPING SCHEMES FOR STATIC HAMILTON-JACOBI EQUATIONS

We propose an effective stopping criterion for higher-order fast sweeping schemes for static Hamilton-Jacobi equations based on ratios of three consecutive iterations. To design the new stopping criterion we analyze the convergence of the first-order Lax-Friedrichs sweeping scheme by using the theory of nonlinear iteration. In addition, we propose a fifth-order Weighted PowerENO sweeping scheme for static Hamilton-Jacobi equations with convex Hamiltonians and present numerical examples that validate the effectiveness of the new stopping criterion.     

UNIFORMLY A POSTERIORI ERROR ESTIMATE FOR THE FINITE ELEMENT METHOD TO A MODEL PARAMETER DEPENDENT PROBLEM

This paper proposes a reliable and efficient a posteriori error estimator for the finite element methods for the beam problem. It is proved that the error can be bounded by the computable error estimator from above and below up to multiplicative constants that do neither depend on the meshsize nor on the thickness of the beam.     

FINITE ELEMENT METHODS FOR THE NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS BY H（div） ELEMENTS

We derived and analyzed a new numerical scheme for the Navier-Stokes equations by using H（div） conforming finite elements. A great deal of effort was given to an establishment of some Sobolev-type inequalities for piecewise smooth functions. In particular, the newly derived Sobolev inequalities were employed to provide a mathematical theory for the H（div） finite element scheme. For example, it was proved that the new finite element scheme has solutions which admit a certain boundedness in terms of the input data. A solution uniqueness was also possible when the input data satisfies a certain smallness condition. Optimal-order error estimates for the corresponding finite element solutions were established in various Sobolev norms. The finite element solutions from the new scheme feature a full satisfaction of the continuity equation which is highly demanded in scientific computing.     

Regularity condition of solutions to the quasi-geostrophic equations in Besov spaces with negative indices

With a Hǒlder type inequality in Besov spaces, we show that every strong solution θ（t, x） on （0, T ） of the dissipative quasi-geostrophic equations can be continued beyond T provided that ⊥θ（t, x） ∈L 2γ/γ-2δ （（0, T ）; B^δ-γ/2 ∞∞（R^2）） for 0 〈 δ 〈 γ/2 .     

Spectral properties of solutions of hypergeometric-type differential equations

The second-order differential equation σ(x)y″ + τ(x)y′ + λy = 0 is usually called equation of hypergeometric type, provided that σ, τ are polynomials of degree not higher than two and one, respectively, and λ is a constant. Their solutions are commonly known as hypergeometric-type functions (HTFs). In this work, a study of the spectrum of zeros of those HTFs for which , v , and σ, τ are independent of ν, is done within the so-called semiclassical (or WKB) approximation. Specifically, the semiclassical or WKB density of zeros of the HTFs is obtained analytically in a closed way in terms of the coefficients of the differential equation that they satisfy. Applications to the Gaussian and confluent hypergeometric functions as well as to Hermite functions are shown.     

WEAK APPROXIMATION OF OBLIQUELY REFLECTED DIFFUSIONS IN TIME-DEPENDENT DOMAINS

In an earlier paper, we proved the existence of solutions to the Skorohod problem with oblique reflection in time-dependent domains and, subsequently, applied this result to the problem of constructing solutions, in time-dependent domains, to stochastic differential equations with oblique reflection. In this paper we use these results to construct weak approximations of solutions to stochastic differential equations with oblique reflection, in time-dependent domains in Rd, by means of a projected Euler scheme. We prove that the constructed method has, as is the case for normal reflection and time-independent domains, an order of convergence equal to 1/2 and we evaluate the method empirically by means of two numerical examples. Furthermore, using a well-known extension of the Feynman-Kac formula, to stochastic differential equations with reflection, our method gives, in addition, a Monte Carlo method for solving second order parabolic partial differential equations with Robin boundary conditions in time-dependent domains.     

HOMOTOPY CONTINUATION METHODS FOR STOCHASTIC TWO-POINT BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS DRIVEN BY ADDITIVE NOISES

In this paper the homotopy continuation method for stochastic two-point boundary value problems driven by additive noises is studied. The existence of the solution of the homotopy equation is proved. Numerical schemes are constructed and error estimates are obtained. Numerical experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the homotopy continu- ation method over other commonly used methods such as the shooting method.     

ON SOLVABILITY AND WAVEFORM RELAXATION METHODS FOR LINEAR VARIABLE-COEFFICIENT DIFFERENTIAL-ALGEBRAIC EQUATIONS

This paper is concerned with the solvability and waveform relaxation methods of linear variable-coefficient differential-algebraic equations （DAEs）. Most of the previous works have been focused on linear variable-coefficient DAEs with smooth coefficients and data, yet no results related to the convergence rate of the corresponding waveform relaxation methods has been obtained. In this paper, we develope the solvability theory for the linear variable-coefficient DAEs on Legesgue square-integrable function space in both traditional and least squares senses, and determine the convergence rate of the waveform relaxation methods for solving linear variable-coefficient DAEs.     

AN ANISOTROPIC NONCONFORMING FINITE ELEMENT METHOD FOR APPROXIMATING A CLASS OF NONLINEAR SOBOLEV EQUATIONS

An anisotropic nonconforming finite element method is presented for a class of nonlinear Sobolev equations. The optimal error estimates and supercloseness are obtained for both semi-discrete and fully-discrete approximate schemes, which are the same as the traditional finite element methods. In addition, the global superconvergence is derived through the postprocessing technique. Numerical experiments are included to illustrate the feasibility of the proposed method.     

A MIXED FINITE ELEMENT METHOD ON A STAGGERED MESH FOR NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS

In this paper, we introduce a mixed finite element method on a staggered mesh for the numerical solution of the steady state Navier-Stokes equations in which the two components of the velocity and the pressure are defined on three different meshes. This method is a conforming quadrilateral Q1 × Q1 - P0 element approximation for the Navier-Stokes equations. First-order error estimates are obtained for both the velocity and the pressure. Numerical examples are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.     

Liouville type theorems for a system of integral equations on upper half space

In this paper,we consider the following system of integral equations on upper half space {u(x) = ∫Rn + (1/|x-y|n-α-1/|-y|n-α) λ1up1(y) + μ1vp2(y) + β1up3(y)vp4(y) dy;v(x) = ∫Rn + (1/|x-y|n-α-1/|-y|n-α)(λ2uq1(y) + μ2vq2(y) + β2uq3(y)vq4(y) dy,where Rn + = {x =(x1,x2,...,xn) ∈ Rn|xn 0}, =(x1,x2,...,xn-1,-xn) is the reflection of the point x about the hyperplane xn= 0,0 α n,λi,μi,βi≥ 0(i = 1,2) are constants,pi≥ 0 and qi≥ 0(i = 1,2,3,4).We prove the nonexistence of positive solutions to the above system with critical and subcritical exponents via moving sphere method.     

BLOCK-TRIANGULAR PRECONDITIONERS FOR SYSTEMS ARISING FROM EDGE-PRESERVING IMAGE RESTORATION

Signal and image restoration problems are often solved by minimizing a cost function consisting of an l2 data-fidelity term and a regularization term. We consider a class of convex and edge-preserving regularization functions. In specific, half-quadratic regularization as a fixed-point iteration method is usually employed to solve this problem. The main aim of this paper is to solve the above-described signal and image restoration problems with the half-quadratic regularization technique by making use of the Newton method. At each iteration of the Newton method, the Newton equation is a structured system of linear equations of a symmetric positive definite coefficient matrix, and may be efficiently solved by the preconditioned conjugate gradient method accelerated with the modified block SSOR preconditioner. Our experimental results show that the modified block-SSOR preconditioned conjugate gradient method is feasible and effective for further improving the numerical performance of the half-quadratic regularization approach.     

Standing Waves of the Coupled Nonlinear Schr ¨odinger Equations

In this paper, we study the existence of standIng waves of the coupled nonlinear Schrodinger equations. The proofs of which rely on the Lyapunov-Schmidt methods and contraction mapping principle are due to F. Weinstein in .     

ON SPECTRAL METHODS FOR VOLTERRA INTEGRAL EQUATIONS AND THE CONVERGENCE ANALYSIS

The main purpose of this work is to provide a novel numerical approach for the Volterra integral equations based on a spectral approach. A Legendre-collocation method is proposed to solve the Volterra integral equations of the second kind. We provide a rigorous error analysis for the proposed method, which indicates that the numerical errors decay exponentially provided that the kernel function and the source function are sufficiently smooth. Numerical results confirm the theoretical prediction of the exponential rate of convergence. The result in this work seems to be the first successful spectral approach （with theoretical justification） for the Volterra type equations.     

A SPECTRAL METHOD FOR PANTOGRAPH-TYPE DELAY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS AND ITS CONVERGENCE ANALYSIS

We propose a novel numerical approach for delay differential equations with vanishing proportional delays based on spectral methods. A Legendre-collocation method is employed to obtain highly accurate numerical approximations to the exact solution. It is proved theoretically and demonstrated numerically that the proposed method converges exponentially provided that the data in the are smooth. given pantograph delay differential equation     

OPTIMAL POINT-WISE ERROR ESTIMATE OF A COMPACT FINITE DIFFERENCE SCHEME FOR THE COUPLED NONLINEAR SCHRODINGER EQUATIONS

In this paper, we analyze a compact finite difference scheme for computing a coupled nonlinear SchrSdinger equation. The proposed scheme not only conserves the totM mass and energy in the discrete level but also is decoupled and linearized in practical computa- tion. Due to the difficulty caused by compact difference on the nonlinear term, it is very hard to obtain the optimal error estimate without any restriction on the grid ratio. In order to overcome the difficulty, we transform the compact difference scheme into a special and equivalent vector form, then use the energy method and some important lemmas to obtain the optimal convergent rate, without any restriction on the grid ratio, at the order of O（h4 ＋r2） in the discrete L∞ -norm with time step - and mesh size h. Finally, numerical results are reported to test our theoretical results of the proposed scheme.     

THE EXISTENCE AND GLOBAL OPTIMAL ASYMPTOTIC BEHAVIOUR OF LARGE SOLUTIONS FOR A SEMILINEAR ELLIPTIC PROBLEM

By Karamata regular variation theory and constructing comparison functions, the author shows the existence and global optimal asymptotic behaviour of solutions for a semilinear elliptic problem Δu = k（x）g（u）, u 〉 0, x ∈ Ω, u｜δΩ =＋∞, where Ω is a bounded domain with smooth boundary in R^N; g ∈ C^1[0, ∞）, g（0） = g＇（0） = 0, and there exists p 〉 1, such that lim g（sξ）/g（s）=ξ^p, ↓Aξ 〉 0, and k ∈ Cloc^α（Ω） is non-negative non-trivial in D which may be singular on the boundary.