The domain of attraction and the stability region for stochastic partial differential equations with delays

In this paper, a stochastic partial differential equation with delays is considered. On the basis of the properties of nonnegative matrices, stochastic convolution and the inequality technique, sufficient conditions for determining the domain of p$p$th-moment attraction and the p$p$th-moment asymptotic stability region are obtained. An example is also discussed, to illustrate the efficiency of the results obtained.     

New nonoscillation criteria for delay differential equations

This paper is concerned with the nonoscillation of first order delay differential equations of the form

     

Positive periodic solutions for a class of delay differential equations

In this paper, we employ fixed point theorem and functional equation theory to study the existence of positive periodic solutions of the delay differential equation

x^′(t)=α(t)x(t)-β(t)x²(t)+γ(t)x(t-τ(t))x(t).     

On the behavior of the solutions to periodic linear delay differential and difference equations

Some new results on the behavior of the solutions to periodic linear delay differential equations as well as to periodic linear delay difference equations are given. These results are obtained by the use of two distinct roots of the corresponding (so called) characteristic equation.     

Uniform stability theorems for delay differential equations with impulses

In the paper, we obtain sufficient conditions for the uniform stability of the zero solution of the delay differential equation with impulses

     

Stability caused by impulses for delay differential equations

In the present paper sufficient conditions are obtained for the stability of the zero solution of a nonlinear delay differential equation caused by impulses. This work is partially supported by NNSF of China and EYTF of National Educational Committee     

A linearized compact difference scheme for a class of nonlinear delay partial differential equations

A linearized compact difference scheme is presented for a class of nonlinear delay partial differential equations with initial and Dirichlet boundary conditions. The unique solvability, unconditional convergence and stability of the scheme are proved. The convergence order is O(τ²+h⁴)$O({\tau }^2+h^4)$ in _L∞$L_{\infty }$ norm. Finally, a numerical example is given to support the theoretical results.     

On collocation methods for delay differential and Volterra integral equations with proportional delay

To compute long term integrations for the pantograph differential equation with proportional delay qt, 0 < q ⩽ 1: y′(t) = ay(t) + by(qt) + f(t), y(0) = y ₀, we offer two kinds of numerical methods using special mesh distributions, that is, a rational approximant with ‘quasi-uniform meshes’ (see E. Ishiwata and Y. Muroya [Appl. Math. Comput., 2007, 187: 741-747]) and a Gauss collocation method with ‘quasi-constrained meshes’. If we apply these meshes to rational approximant and Gauss collocation method, respectively, then we obtain useful numerical methods of order p ^* = 2m for computing long term integrations. Numerical investigations for these methods are also presented.      

Oscillation of first order delay differential equations with distributed delay

In this paper, we obtain some oscillation criteria for the first order delay differential equation with distributed delay

     

On the determination of the basin of attraction of a periodic orbit in two-dimensional systems

We consider the general nonlinear differential equation with x∈R² and develop a method to determine the basin of attraction of a periodic orbit. Borg's criterion provides a method to prove existence, uniqueness and exponential stability of a periodic orbit and to determine a subset of its basin of attraction. In order to use the criterion one has to find a function W∈C¹(R²,R) such that LW(x)=W^′(x)+L(x) is negative for all x∈K, where K is a positively invariant set. Here, L(x) is a given function and W^′(x) denotes the orbital derivative of W. In this paper we prove the existence and smoothness of a function W such that LW(x)=−μ‖f(x)‖. We approximate the function W, which satisfies the linear partial differential equation W^′(x)=〈∇W(x),f(x)〉=−μ‖f(x)‖−L(x), using radial basis functions and obtain an approximation w such that Lw(x)<0. Using radial basis functions again, we determine a positively invariant set K so that we can apply Borg's criterion. As an example we apply the method to the Van-der-Pol equation.     

Dissipativity of delay functional differential equations with bounded lag

Delay functional differential equations are essentially different from ordinary differential equations because their phase space is infinite dimensional. We first establish a sufficient condition for delay functional differential equations with bounded lag to be dissipative. Then we construct a one-leg θ-method to solve such dissipative equations and prove that it is dissipative if θ=1. One numerical example is given to confirm our theoretical result.     

Asymptotic behavior of delay differential equations with instantaneously terms

This paper deals with scalar delay differential equation with instantaneously term

     

On a boundary value problem for delay differential equations of population dynamics and Chebyshev approximation

In this paper, a boundary value problem for delay differential equations of population dynamics is considered. We obtain approximate solutions by using Chebyshev polynomial series and Newton–Raphson's procedure and give the error estimation. The method of the error estimation has been obtained in an existence theorem proved by a part of the authors. We carry out some numerical experiments by a computer language MATLAB.     

Asymptotic behavior of certain delay differential equations with forcing term

We study the asymptotic behavior of solutions of the following forced delay differential equation:

Some sufficient conditions that guarantee every solution of the equation to converge to zero are obtained. The results obtained are applied to some well-known delay differential ecological equations with forcing term.     

Bifurcations of periodic solutions of delay differential equations

In this paper we develop Kaplan-Yorke's method and consider the existence of periodic solutions for some delay differential equations. We especially study Hopf and saddle-node bifurcations of periodic solutions with certain periods for these equations with parameters, and give conditions under which the bifurcations occur. We also give application examples and find that Hopf and saddle-node bifurcations often occur infinitely many times.     

On the behavior of the oscillatory solutions of first or second order delay differential equations

Some new results are given concerning the behavior of the oscillatory solutions of first or second order delay differential equations. These results establish that all oscillatory solutions x of a first or second order delay differential equation satisfy x(t)=O(v(t)) as t→∞, where v is a nonoscillatory solution of a corresponding first or second order linear delay differential equation. Some applications of the results obtained are also presented.     

Oscillation criteria of a certain class of third order nonlinear delay differential equations with damping

In this paper, we are concerned with the oscillation of third order nonlinear delay differential equations of the form

(r₂(t)(r₁(t)y^′)′)′+p(t)y^′+q(t)f(y(g(t)))=0.