An inverse coefficient problem with nonlinear parabolic equation

The problem related to controlled potential experiments in electrochemistry is studied. Ion transport is regarded as the superposition of diffusion and migration. Modelling of the experiment leads to a problem for a nonlinear parabolic equation with additional condition. Driven by the needs of theoretical analysis, from the point of view a inverse coefficient problem, we analyze the monotonicity of input-output mappings in inverse coefficient and source problems for this parabolic equation. Additionally, we extend the nonlinear parabolic equation to a more general case. Under some proper conditions, we investigate the existence of quasisolution of the generalized nonlinear parabolic equation.     

Entropy solutions for a non-uniformly parabolic equation

In this paper we prove the existence and uniqueness of entropy solutions for the initial-boundary value problem of a non-uniformly parabolic equation. Moreover, we establish a comparison result. Some well-known parabolic equations are the special cases of this equation.     

Well-posedness of fully nonlinear and nonlocal critical parabolic equations

In this paper, we prove the existence of smooth solutions in Sobolev spaces to fully nonlinear and nonlocal parabolic equations with critical index. Our argument is to transform the fully nonlinear equation into a quasi-linear nonlocal parabolic equation.     

A mathematical model for the three-dimentional ocean sound propagation

A model is developed mathematically to represent sound propagation in a three-dimensional ocean. The complete development is based on characteristics of the physical environment, mathematical theory, and computational accuracy.While the two-dimentional underwater acoustic wave propagation problem is not yet solved completely for range-dependent environments,three-dimentional environmental effects, such as fronts and eddies, often cannot be neglected. To predict underwater sound propagation, one usually deals with the solution of the Helmholtz (reduced wave) equation. This elliptical equation, along with a set of boundary conditions including a wall condition at the maximum range, forms a well-posed problem, which is pure boundary-value problem. An existing approach to economically solve this three-dimensional range-dependent problem is by means of a two-dimensional parabolic partial differential equation. This parabolic approximation approach, within the limitation of mathematical and acoustical approximations, offers efficient solutions to a class of long-range propagation problems. The parabolic wave equation is much easier to solve than the elliptic equation; one major saving is the removal of the wall boundary condition at the maximum range. The application of the two-dimensional parabolic wave equation to a number of realistic problems has been successful.We discuss the extension of the parabolic equation approach to three-dimensional problems. This paper begins with general considerations of the three-dimensional elliptic wave equation and shows how to transform this equation into parabolic equations which are easier to solve. The development of this paper focuses on wide angle three-dimensional underwater acoustic propagation and accommodates as a special case prevoius developments by other authors. In the course of our development, the physical properties, mathematical validity, and computational accuracy are the primary factors considered. We describe how parabolic wave equations are derived and how wide angle propagation is taken into consideration. Then, a discussion of the limitations and the advantages of the parabolic equation approximation is highlighted. These provide the background for the mathematical formulation of three-dimensional underwater acoustic wave propagation models.Modelling the mathematical solution to three-dimensional underwater acoustic wave propagation involves difficulties both in describing the theoretical acoustics and in performing the large scale computations. We have used the mathematical and physical properties of the problem to simplify considerably. Simplications allow us to introduce a three-dimensional mathematical model for underwater acoustic propagation predictions. Our wide angle three-dimensional parabolic equation model is theoretically justifiable and computationally accurate. This model offers a variety of capabilities to handle a class of long-range propagation problems under acoustical environments with three-dimensional variations.     

On determining the source function in heat and mass transfer problems under integral overdetermination conditions

We examine an inverse problem of determining the right-hand side (the source function) in a parabolic equation from integral overdetermination data. By a solution to a parabolic equation we mean a weak solution, and the right-hand side in this equation can be a distribution of a certain class. Under some conditions on the data of the problem, we demonstrate that this inverse problem is well posed and, in particular, some stability estimates hold.     

Hyperbolic–parabolic singular perturbation for quasilinear equations of Kirchhoff type with weak dissipation

We consider a hyperbolic–parabolic singular perturbation problem for a quasilinear hyperbolic equation of Kirchhoff type with dissipation weak in time. The purpose of this paper is to give time‐decay convergence estimates of the difference between the solutions of the hyperbolic equation above and those of the corresponding parabolic equation, together with the unique existence of the global solutions of the hyperbolic equation above. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Ibragimov-type invariants for a system of two linear parabolic equations

We obtain new semi-invariants for a system of two linear parabolic type partial differential equations (PDEs) in two independent variables under equivalence transformations of the dependent variables only. This is achieved for a class of systems of two linear parabolic type PDEs that correspond to a scalar complex linear (1 + 1) parabolic equation. The complex transformations of the dependent variables which map the complex scalar linear parabolic PDE to itself provide us with real transformations that map the corresponding system of linear parabolic type PDEs to itself with different coefficients in general. The semi-invariants deduced for this class of systems of two linear parabolic type equations correspond to the complex Ibragimov invariants of the complex scalar linear parabolic equation. We also look at particular cases of the system of parabolic type equations when they are uncoupled or coupled in a special manner. Moreover, we address the inverse problem of when systems of linear parabolic type equations arise from analytic continuation of a scalar linear parabolic PDE. Examples are given to illustrate the method implemented.     

Nonlinear parabolic equations in sections of vector bundles

We study the Cauchy problem for a nonlinear parabolic equation relative to a section of a vector bundle. The special procedure of covariant differential extension makes it possible to reduce this equation to a system of quasilinear parabolic equations, which can be studied using the theory of stochastic equations. We obtain a probabilistic representation of the solution of both the auxiliary quasilinear parabolic system and the original nonlinear equation. Bibliography: 5 titles. Translated fromProblemy Matematicheskogo Analiza, No. 13, 1992, pp. 19–42.     

非局部边界条件下的抛物型偏微分方程组

本文首先讨论了一个非局部边界条件下的抛物型偏微分方程组,通过一个变量替换,使得在更宽松的边界假设条件下证明了解的存在唯一性;然后讨论了一个完全非线性的抛物型方程组,同样,通过变量替换证明了比较原理.     

Global attractor for a non-autonomous integro-differential equation in materials with memory

The long-time behavior of an integro-differential parabolic equation of diffusion type with memory terms, expressed by convolution integrals involving infinite delays and by a forcing term with bounded delay, is investigated in this paper. The assumptions imposed on the coefficients are weak in the sense that uniqueness of solutions of the corresponding initial value problems cannot be guaranteed. Then, it is proved that the model generates a multivalued non-autonomous dynamical system which possesses a pullback attractor. First, the analysis is carried out with an abstract parabolic equation. Then, the theory is applied to the particular integro-differential equation which is the objective of this paper. The general results obtained in the paper are also valid for other types of parabolic equations with memory.     

A model for a finite memory transport in the Fisher equation

A model for a finite memory effect in the Fisher equation had been presented by Cattaneo [Acad. Sci. 247 (1958) 431]. By this model the type of the governing equation is transformed from a parabolic type to a hyperbolic one. But the Cattaneo’s equation does not reduce to the logistic equation in the homogeneous regime. A new model is presented which conserves the parabolic generic equation as well as the reduction property. Memory effects are visualized in the two models through numerical computations of solutions.     

Insensitizing controls for a class of quasilinear parabolic equations

This paper is addressed to showing the existence of insensitizing controls for a class of quasilinear parabolic equations with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. As usual, this insensitizing problem is reduced to a nonstandard null controllability problem of some nonlinear cascade system governed by a quasilinear parabolic equation and a linear parabolic equation. Nevertheless, in order to solve the later quasilinear controllability problem by the fixed point technique, we need to establish the null controllability of the linearized cascade parabolic system in the framework of classical solutions. The key point is to find the desired control function in a Hölder space for given data with certain regularities.     

Reduced-order extrapolation spectral-finite difference scheme based on POD method and error estimation for three-dimensional parabolic equation

In this study, a classical spectral-finite difference scheme (SFDS) for the three-dimensional (3D) parabolic equation is reduced by using proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) and singular value decomposition (SVD). First, the 3D parabolic equation is discretized in spatial variables by using spectral collocation method and the discrete scheme is transformed into matrix formulation by tensor product. Second, the classical SFDS is obtained by difference discretization in time-direction. The ensemble of data are comprised with the first few transient solutions of the classical SFDS for the 3D parabolic equation and the POD bases of ensemble of data are generated by using POD technique and SVD. The unknown quantities of the classical SFDS are replaced with the linear combination of POD bases and a reducedorder extrapolation SFDS with lower dimensions and sufficiently high accuracy for the 3D parabolic equation is established. Third, the error estimates between the classical SFDS solutions and the reduced-order extrapolation SFDS solutions and the implementation for solving the reduced-order extrapolation SFDS are provided. Finally, a numerical example shows that the errors of numerical computations are consistent with the theoretical results. Moreover, it is shown that the reduced-order extrapolation SFDS is effective and feasible to find the numerical solutions for the 3D parabolic equation.     

ASYMPTOTIC BEHAVIOR OF SOLUTIONS TO THE HEAT EQUATIONS WITH NONLINEAR BOUNDARY CONDITIONS

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the stability and asymptotic behav-ior of the time-dependent solutions to a linear parabolic equation with nonlinear boundarycondition in relation to their corresponding steady state solutions. Then, the above resultsare extended to a semilinear parabolic equation with nonlinear boundary condition by an-alyzing the corresponding eigenvalue problem and using the method of upper and lowersolutions.     

Parabolic Q-minima and Their Application

In this paper, the notion named parabolic Q-minima is endowed with rich meanings and its local behavior is investigated. As its direct application we obtain the local regularity, such as boundcdncss, continuity, llolder continuity of the weak solutions of the various filtration equations, e.g., the equation of Newtonian polytropic filtration, the general equation of Newtonian filtration, the equation of elastic filtration, the equation of non-Newtonian polytropic filtration. Therefore, a unifying approach to various regularity results for a great number of nonlinear degenerate parabolic equations is provided.     

On the decay of a solution of a nonuniformly parabolic equation

For a uniformly parabolic second-order equation with lower-order terms in an unbounded domain, we obtain an upper bound for the decay rate of the solution of the mixed problem with alternating boundary conditions of the first and third types. We prove that the bound is sharp in the case of an equation without lower-order terms in a wide class of domains of revolution. In addition, we show that a solution of a nonuniformly parabolic equation can decay much more rapidly than a solution of a uniformly parabolic equation.     

The operational matrices of Bernstein polynomials for solving the parabolic equation subject to specification of the mass

Some physical problems in science and engineering are modelled by the parabolic partial differential equations with nonlocal boundary specifications. In this paper, a numerical method which employs the Bernstein polynomials basis is implemented to give the approximate solution of a parabolic partial differential equation with boundary integral conditions. The properties of Bernstein polynomials, and the operational matrices for integration, differentiation and the product are introduced and are utilized to reduce the solution of the given parabolic partial differential equation to the solution of algebraic equations. Illustrative examples are included to demonstrate the validity and applicability of the new technique.     

Direct numerical method for an inverse problem of a parabolic partial differential equation

A coefficient inverse problem of the one-dimensional parabolic equation is solved by a high-order compact finite difference method in this paper. The problem of recovering a time-dependent coefficient in a parabolic partial differential equation has attracted considerable attention recently. While many theoretical results regarding the existence and uniqueness of the solution are obtained, the development of efficient and accurate numerical methods is still far from satisfactory. In this paper a fourth-order efficient numerical method is proposed to calculate the function u(x,t) and the unknown coefficient a(t) in a parabolic partial differential equation. Several numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the efficiency and accuracy of the numerical method.     

On an inhomogeneous problem for parabolic-hyperbolic equation

We study a boundary value problem for an inhomogeneous parabolic-hyperbolic equation with a noncharacteristic type change line. Boundary conditions of the first kind are posed on characteristics in the parabolic and hyperbolic parts of the domain where the equation is given, and a condition of the third kind is posed on the noncharacteristic part of the boundary in the parabolic part. First, we study the solvability of an inhomogeneous initial–boundary value problem for a parabolic equation.     

A Nash Type Result for Divergence Parabolic Equation Related to Hörmander's Vector Fields

In this paper we consider the divergence parabolic equation with bounded and measurable coefficients related to Hörmander's vector fields and establish a Nash type result, i.e., the local Hölder regularity for weak solutions. After deriving the parabolic Sobolev inequality, (1,1) type Poincaré inequality of Hörmander's vector fields and a De Giorgi type Lemma, the Hölder regularity of weak solutions to the equation is proved based on the estimates of oscillations of solutions and the isomorphism between parabolic Campanato space and parabolic Hölder space. As a consequence, we give the Harnack inequality of weak solutions by showing an extension property of positivity for functions in the De Giorgi class.