Long-time behavior of solutions to a nonlinear hyperbolic relaxation system

We study the large time behavior of solutions of a one-dimensional hyperbolic relaxation system that may be written as a nonlinear damped wave equation. First, we prove the global existence of a unique solution and their decay properties for sufficiently small initial data. We also show that for some large initial data, solutions blow-up in finite time. For quadratic nonlinearities, we prove that the large time behavior of solutions is given by the fundamental solution of the viscous Burgers equation. In some other cases, the convection term is too weak and the large time behavior is given by the linear heat kernel.     

Some well-posed results on the time-fractional Rayleigh–Stokes problem with polynomial and gradient nonlinearities

In this work, we ponder on a Cauchy problem for the Rayleigh–Stokes equation accompanied by polynomial and gradient nonlinearities. We particularly concern about the behavior of mild solutions for the different instances of the nonlinear source term. In the case of polynomial nonlinearities, we present the local-in-time existence and uniqueness of the mild solution. Moreover, we claim that either it is the global-in-time or it blows up at a finite time. With reference to the case that the source function is global Lipschitzian, we observe that the solution always uniquely exists for a finite time and is continuously dependent. Eventually, we establish some regularity results for the mild solution.     

Nonexistence of spatially localized free vibrations for a class of nonlinear wave equations

We prove the nonexistence of free vibrations of arbitrary period with polynomially decreasing profiles for a large class of nonlinear wave equations in one space dimension Our class of admissible models includes examples of non integrable wave equations with certain polynomial nonlinearities, as well as examples of completely integrable ones with exponential nonlinearities related to Mikhailov's equations. Our result thus proves a particular case of a conjecture first formulated by Eleonskii, Kulagin, Novozhilova and Silin, and dispels some confusion regarding the relationship between the existence of so-called breather-solutions and the complete integrability of the wave equation. Our class of admissible nonlinearities also contains a particular instance of the nonlinear scalar Higgs' equation, but does not contain the Sine-Gordon equation which is known to possess a 2π-periodic solution in time with exponential fall-off in the spatial direction. Our results may be considered as complementary to recent results by Coron and Weinstein. Our arguments are entirely global, and rest upon methods from the calculus of variations. Work supported in part by the Los Alamos National Laboratory under contract COL-2335, by a University of Texas summer grant and by the ETH-Forschungsinstitut für Mathematik.     

Saddle points and instability of nonlinear hyperbolic equations

A number of authors have investigated conditions under which weak solutions of the initial-boundary value problem for the nonlinear wave equation will blow up in a finite time. For certain classes of nonlinearities sharp results are derived in this paper. Extensions to parabolic and to abstract operator equations are also given.     

Relaxation of solitons in nonlinear Schrödinger equations with potential

In this paper we study dynamics of solitons in the generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLS) with an external potential in all dimensions except for 2. For a certain class of nonlinearities such an equation has solutions which are periodic in time and exponentially decaying in space, centered near different critical points of the potential. We call those solutions which are centered near the minima of the potential and which minimize energy restricted to L²-unit sphere, trapped solitons or just solitons. In this paper we prove, under certain conditions on the potentials and initial conditions, that trapped solitons are asymptotically stable. Moreover, if an initial condition is close to a trapped soliton then the solution looks like a moving soliton relaxing to its equilibrium position. The dynamical law of motion of the soliton (i.e. effective equations of motion for the soliton's center and momentum) is close to Newton's equation but with a dissipative term due to radiation of the energy to infinity.     

Solutions of Two Nonlinear Evolution Equations Using Lie Symmetry and Simplest Equation Methods

In this paper, we study two nonlinear evolution partial differential equations, namely, a modified Camassa–Holm–Degasperis–Procesi equation and the generalized Korteweg–de Vries equation with two power law nonlinearities. For the first time, the Lie symmetry method along with the simplest equation method is used to construct exact solutions for these two equations.     

Asymptotic stability of ground states in 3D nonlinear Schrödinger equation including subcritical cases

We consider a class of nonlinear Schrödinger equation in three space dimensions with an attractive potential. The nonlinearity is local but rather general encompassing for the first time both subcritical and supercritical (in L²) nonlinearities. We study the asymptotic stability of the nonlinear bound states, i.e. periodic in time localized in space solutions. Our result shows that all solutions with small initial data, converge to a nonlinear bound state. Therefore, the nonlinear bound states are asymptotically stable. The proof hinges on dispersive estimates that we obtain for the time dependent, Hamiltonian, linearized dynamics around a careful chosen one parameter family of bound states that “shadows” the nonlinear evolution of the system. Due to the generality of the methods we develop we expect them to extend to the case of perturbations of large bound states and to other nonlinear dispersive wave type equations.     

Well-Posedness for Nonlinear Wave Equation with Potentials Vanishing at Infinity

The main purpose of this paper is to prove global well-posedness in some scale-invariant weighted Besov spaces and Strichartz spaces for the nonlinear wave equation with competing nonlinearities which have time depending potentials decaying at infinity. We discuss also some new frequency localized estimates in non-isotropic Lebesgue spaces.     

Asymptotic regularity and attractors of the reaction-diffusion equation with nonlinear boundary condition

We consider the dynamical behavior of the reaction-diffusion equation with nonlinear boundary condition for both autonomous and non-autonomous cases. For the autonomous case, under the assumption that the internal nonlinear term f is dissipative and the boundary nonlinear term g is non-dissipative, the asymptotic regularity of solutions is proved. For the non-autonomous case, we obtain the existence of a compact uniform attractor in H¹(Ω) with dissipative internal and boundary nonlinearities.     

Variational Solutions to Nonlinear Diffusion Equations with Singular Diffusivity

We provide existence results for nonlinear diffusion equations with multivalued time-dependent nonlinearities related to convex continuous not coercive potentials. The results in this paper, following a variational principle, state that a generalized solution of the nonlinear equation can be retrieved as a solution of an appropriate minimization problem for a convex functional involving the potential and its conjugate. In the not coercive case, this assertion is conditioned by the validity of a relation between the solution and the nonlinearity. A sufficient condition, under which this relation is true, is given. At the end, we present a discussion on the solution existence for a particular equation describing a self-organized criticality model.     

Global existence to generalized Boussinesq equation with combined power-type nonlinearities

The Cauchy problem to the generalized Boussinesq equation with combined power-type nonlinearities is studied. Global solvability or finite time blow-up of the solutions with subcritical initial energy is proved by means of the sign preserving property of the Nehari functional. For generalized Lienard (or generalized Bernoulli) nonlinear terms the critical energy constant is explicitly evaluated. A new method, that can be considered as a modification of the potential well method, is developed. The performed numerical experiments support the theoretical results.     

Nonlinear scattering theory for a class of wave equations in H

For the semi-linear (higher order) wave equation and the nonlinear (higher order) Schrödinger equation, we show that the scattering operators map a band in H^s into H^s if the nonlinearities have (sub-)critical powers in H^s. The smoothness of the scattering operators and the uniform boundedness of strong solutions for the defocusing NLS equation are also shown provided that the nonlinearities have subcritical growth in H¹. Moreover, the spatial decaying behavior of solutions in energy space for the defocusing NLS equation are obtained.     

Quasiclassical localization of wave packets in nonlinear Schrödinger systems

We consider the nonlinear Schrödinger equation with several kinds of potentials. For studying the existence and stability of the wave packets that could support these systems, a certain functional is constructed, which in some manner possesses the properties of the Lyapunov functional for analyzing the existence and stability of solutions. The general case of potential is considered and the appearance of pulsons is shown. Then we propose three examples of nonlinear classical field theories with potentials that exhibit quartic, sextic and saturable nonlinearities. This method exhibits a criteria for determining quasiclassically the self-localization of wave packets in nonintegrable systems.     

Inaccessible States in Time-Dependent Reaction Diffusion

Using asymptotic methods we show that the long-time dynamic behavior in certain systems of nonlinear parabolic differential equations is described by a time-dependent, spatially inhomogeneous nonlinear evolution equation. For problems with multiple stable states, the solution develops sharp fronts separating slowly varying regions. By studying the basins of attraction of Abel's nonlinear differential equation, we demonstrate that the presence of explicit time dependence in the asymptotic evolution equation creates “forbidden regions” where the existence of interfaces is excluded. Consequently, certain configurations of stable states in the nonlinear system become inaccessible and cannot be achieved from any set of real initial conditions.     

Solution of the nonlinear fractional diffusion equation with absorbent term and external force

The article presents the approximate analytical solutions of general nonlinear diffusion equation with fractional time derivative in the presence of an absorbent term and a linear external force obtained with the help of powerful mathematical tool like Homotopy Perturbation Method. By using initial value, the approximate analytical solutions of the equation are derived. The fractional derivatives are described in the Caputo sense. Numerical results for different particular cases are presented graphically. The anomalous behavior of nonlinear diffusivity in the presence or absence of external force and reaction term are calculated numerically and presented graphically.     

Blow-up phenomena for a semilinear heat equation with nonlinear boundary condition, II

This paper deals with the blow-up of the solution to a semilinear second-order parabolic equation with nonlinear boundary conditions. It is shown that under certain conditions on the nonlinearities and data, blow-up will occur at some finite time and when blow-up does occur upper and lower bounds for the blow-up time are obtained.     

张力腿平台有限振幅运动的方程和数值解

论证了张力腿平台（TLP）在波浪作用下发生有限振幅运动时,所受惯性力、粘性力、浮力等载荷不仅与波浪场有关,还与瞬时响应有关,是响应的非线性函数;张力腿拉力也是各自由度位移的非线性函数．所以分析TLP受力时必须考虑平台的瞬时加速度、速度和位移,在瞬时位置建立运动方程．据此推导出TLP发生有限振幅运动时的外力计算公式,建立了TLP 6自由度有限振幅运动非线性控制方程．其中考虑了由6自由度有限位移引起的多种非线性因素,如各自由度之间的耦合、瞬时湿表面、瞬时位置等;还包括自由表面效应、粘性力等因素引起的非线性．用数值方法求解所得到的非线性运动方程．对典型平台ISSC TLP进行了数值分析,求得该平台在规则波作用下的6自由度运动响应．用退化到线性范围的解与已有解进行了对比,吻合良好．数值结果表明,综合考虑非线性因素后响应有明显改变．     

Nonlinear modeling and analysis of electrically actuated viscoelastic microbeams based on the modified couple stress theory

A nonclassical nonlinear continuum model of electrically actuated viscoelastic microbeams is presented based on the modified couple stress theory to consider the microstructure effect in the framework of viscoelasticity. The nonlinear integral-differential governing equation and related boundary conditions of are derived based on the extended Hamilton's principle and Euler–Bernoulli hypothesis for viscoelastic microbeams with clamped-free, clamped-clamped, simply-supported boundary conditions. The proposed model accounts for system nonlinearities including the axial residual stress, geometric nonlinearity due to midplane stretching, electrical forcing with fringing effect. The behavior of the microbeam is simulated using generalized Maxwell viscoelastic model. A new generalized differential/integral quadrature method is developed to solve the resulting governing equation. The developed model is verified against elastic behavior and a favorable agreement is obtained. Efficiency of the developed model is demonstrated by analyzing the quasistatic pull-in phenomena of electrically actuated viscoelastic microbeams with different boundaries at various material length scale parameters and axial residual stresses in the framework of linear viscoelasticity.     

Multiplicity and eigenvalue intersecting nonlinearities

Summary Several results on the existence of multiple solutions are proved for nonlinear Sturm-Liouville equations with nonlinearities which cross asymptotically some eigenvalues of the linear operator (so-called jumping nonlinearities).By a change of variable the problem is transformed into a bifurcation equation. The bifurcation branches of this equation are seen to start in linear eigenvalues and to end asymptotically in nonlinear eigenvalues (split eigenvalues). This allows to deduce in a unified way several multiplicity results.     

Averaging, Conley index continuation and recurrent dynamics in almost-periodic parabolic equations

We study a non-autonomous parabolic equation with almost-periodic, rapidly oscillating principal part and nonlinear interactions. We associate to the equation a skew-product semiflow and, for a special class of nonlinearities, we define the Conley index of isolated compact invariant sets. As the frequency of the oscillations tends to infinity, we prove that every isolated compact invariant set of the averaged autonomous equation can be continued to an isolated compact invariant set of the skew-product semiflow associated to the non-autonomous equation. Finally, we illustrate some examples in which the Conley index can be explicitly computed and can be exploited to detect the existence of recurrent dynamics in the equation.