A mixed Dirichlet-Robin problem for a nonlinear Kirchhoff-Carrier wave equation

In this paper, a mixed Dirichlet-Robin problem for a nonlinear Kirchhoff-Carrier wave equation is studied. Using the Faedo-Galerkin method and the linearization method for nonlinear terms, we prove the existence and uniqueness of a weak solution of the above problem. An asymptotic expansion of high order in many small parameters of solutions is also discussed.     

具有多重解的非线性奇摄动问题

利用边界层法,研究了一类具有多重解的非线性奇摄动问题．在适当的假设下,通过给出外部解展开式系数及其对应边界条件的一般表达式,根据退化问题的边值作为某方程的根的重数,得到了此问题不同形式的渐近解．特别地,当这种根的重数为偶数时,问题具有二重解．另外,将相关结果应用于化学反应器理论,并通过对具有多重解的例子的渐近解和精确解的数值模拟说明如此构造的渐近解具有较高的精度．     

Homogenization and Asymptotics for Small Transaction Costs: The Multidimensional Case

In the context of the multi-dimensional infinite horizon optimal consumption investment problem with small proportional transaction costs, we prove an asymptotic expansion. Similar to the one-dimensional derivation in our accompanying paper, the first order term is expressed in terms of a singular ergodic control problem. Our arguments are based on the theory of viscosity solutions and the techniques of homogenization which leads to a system of corrector equations. In contrast with the one-dimensional case, no explicit solution of the first corrector equation is available and we also prove the existence of a corrector and its properties. Finally, we provide some numerical results which illustrate the structure of the first order optimal controls.     

Multiple solutions for the laminar flow in a porous pipe with suction at slowly expanding or contracting wall

In this paper, the asymptotic solution for the similarity equation of the laminar flow in a porous pipe with suction at expanding and contracting wall has been obtained using the singular perturbation method. However, this solution neglects exponentially small terms in the matching process. To take into account these exponentially small terms, a method involving the inclusion of exponentially small terms in a perturbation series was used to find the two solutions analytically. The series involving the exponentially small terms and expansion ratio predicts dual solutions. Furthermore, the result indicates that the expansion ratio has much important influence on the solutions. When the expansion ratio is zero, it is a special case that Terrill has discussed.     

Numerical solution of the differential equation describing the behavior of the zeroth-order boundary function

The asymptotic solution of the integro-differential plasma-sheath equation is considered. This equation is singularly perturbed because of the small coefficient multiplying the highest order (second) derivative. The asymptotic solution is obtained by the boundary function method. Equations are derived for the first two coefficients in the form of both a regular series expansion and an expansion in boundary functions. The equation for the first coefficient of the regular series has only a trivial solution. A numerical algorithm is considered for the solution of the second-order differential equation describing the behavior of the zeroth-order boundary function. The proposed algorithm efficiently solves the boundary-value problem and produces a well-behaved solution of the Cauchy problem. __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Matematika i Informatika, No. 23, pp. 24–35, 2006.     

Existence and asymptotic behavior of solutions to a singular parabolic equation

In this paper, we study the initial-boundary value problem for a class of singular parabolic equations. Under some conditions, we obtain the existence and asymptotic behavior of solutions to the problem by parabolic regularization method and the sub-super solutions method. As a byproduct, we prove the existence of solutions to some problems with gradient terms, which blow up on the boundary.     

From restoration by topological gradient to medical image segmentation via an asymptotic expansion

The aim of this article is to present an application of the topological asymptotic expansion to the medical image segmentation problem. We first recall the classical variational of the image restoration problem, and its resolution by topological asymptotic analysis in which the identification of the diffusion coefficient can be seen as an inverse conductivity problem. The conductivity is set either to a small positive coefficient (on the edge set), or to its inverse (elsewhere). In this paper a technique based on a power series expansion of the solution to the image restoration problem with respect to this small coefficient is introduced. By considering the limit when this coefficient goes to zero, we obtain a segmented image, but some numerical issues do not allow a too small coefficient. The idea is to use the series expansion to approximate the asymptotic solution with several solutions corresponding to positive (larger than a threshold) conductivity coefficients via a quadrature formula. We illustrate this approach with some numerical results on medical images.     

Helly’s Principle and Its Application to an Infinite-Horizon Optimal Control Problem

In this paper, a numerical method is presented to solve singularly-perturbed two-point boundary-value problems for second-order ordinary differential equations with a discontinuous source term. First, an asymptotic expansion approximation of the solution of the boundary-value problem is constructed using the basic ideas of the well-known WKB perturbation method. Then, some initial-value problems and terminal-value problems are constructed such that their solutions are the terms of this asymptotic expansion. These initial-value problems and terminal-value problems are singularly-perturbed problems and therefore fitted mesh method (Shishkin mesh) are used to solve these problems. Necessary error estimates are derived and examples are provided to illustrate the method.     

A singular perturbation approach to integral equations occurring in poroelasticity

Singular perturbation theory is used to solve the integral equationswhich occur when treating finite-length crack problems in porouselastic materials. The method provides the stress intensityfactors which characterize the near crack tip stress and displacementfields for small times. The method also gives the stress andpore pressure fields on the fracture plane for small times relativeto the diffusive time scale. In this paper, the authors treatcrack problems which are unmixed in the pore pressure boundarycondition on the fracture plane. The Abelian result that smalltimes correspond, in Laplace transform space, to large valuesof the transform variable is used to formulate the problemsin terms of a small parameter. Rescaling on this small parameterleads to inner problems which are eigensolutions of the semi-infiniteproblems treated earlier by the authors. The outer solutionsare given by elastic eigensolutions together with appropriatefluid dipole responses. These outer solutions give the completestress and pore pressure fields except in the neighbourhoodof the crack tips; in this region the outer solutions are asymptoticallymatched with inner solutions. The full outer solutions are givenhere as an asymptotic expansion for small times and enable thedevelopment of the outer fields to be followed in real time.A reciprocal theorem in Laplace transform space is used to checkthe small-time solutions. The inner problem is rescaled to asemi-infinite crack problem, so eigensolutions of this semi-infiniteproblem are used together with the known asymptotic behaviourof the real solution to identify the stress intensity factor.The stress intensity factor is then related to an integral involvingthe inner limit of the outer solution together with the eigensolutionof the semi-infinite problem. Using this integral, we recoverthe result for the stress intensity factor found using singularperturbation theory. A ‘nearly’ invariant integralanalogous to the invariant M integral used in elastostaticsis derived. Unfortunately, the poroelastic analogue is not invariant,although it is used to verify the small-time results.     

The blowup for 2-D quasilinear wave equations with cubic nonlinearity

For 2-D quasilinear wave equations with cubic nonlinearity and small initial data, we not only show that the solutions blow up in finite time but also give a complete asymptotic expansion of the lifespan of classical solutions. Hence we solve a problem posed by S. Alinhac and A. Hoshiga. Moreover, as an application of this result, we prove the blowup of solutions for the nonlinear vibrating membrane equations.     

薄层流中的一类三阶奇摄动边值问题的渐近分析

本文研究薄层流中出现的一类三阶奇摄动数学模型．本文不采用研究其渐近等价的二阶奇摄动微分方程的方法,而利用边界层函数法,直接讨论该数学模型的渐近解,并严格地证明了解的存在唯一性和其渐近解的一致有效性．本文的结果不仅去掉了以往方法所必须的位势条件,纠正了某个不适定的假设,而且推广了以往的结果．     

Differentiability and its asymptotic analysis for nonlinear singularly perturbed boundary value problem

In this paper, we show differentiability of solutions with respect to the given boundary value data for nonlinear singularly perturbed boundary value problems and its corresponding asymptotic expansion of small parameter. This result fills the gap caused by the solvability condition in Esipova’s result so as to lay a rigorous foundation for the theory of boundary function method on which a guideline is provided as to how to apply this theory to the other forms of singularly perturbed nonlinear boundary value problems and enlarge considerably the scope of applicability and validity of the boundary function method. A third-order singularly perturbed boundary value problem arising in the theory of thin film flows is revisited to illustrate the theory of this paper. Compared to the original result, the imposed potential condition is completely removed by the boundary function method to obtain a better result. Moreover, an improper assumption on the reduced problem has been corrected.     

A boundary expansion of solutions to nonlinear singular elliptic equations

In this paper we establish an asymptotic expansion near the boundary for solutions to the Dirichlet problem of elliptic equations with singularities near the boundary.This expansion formula shows the singularity profile of solutions at the boundary.We deal with both linear and nonlinear elliptic equations,including fully nonlinear elliptic equations and equations of Monge-Ampère type.     

Asymptotic analysis of some classes of ordinary differential equations with large high-frequency terms

A complete asymptotic expansion is constructed for solutions of the Cauchy problem for nth order linear ordinary differential equations with rapidly oscillating coefficients, some of which may be proportional to ω ^n/2, where ω is oscillation frequency. A similar problem is solved for a class of systems of n linear first-order ordinary differential equations with coefficients of the same type. Attention is also given to some classes of first-order nonlinear equations with rapidly oscillating terms proportional to powers ω ^d . For such equations with d ∈ (1/2, 1], conditions are found that allow for the construction (and strict justification) of the leading asymptotic term and, in some cases, a complete asymptotic expansion of the solution of the Cauchy problem.     

一类非线性微分差分方程的近似解

本文对一类非线性微分差分方程求得一致有效渐近展开式,给出了共振解的近似解析表达式,并推广了Nayfeh和Mook的结果.     

Asymptotic Integration of Parabolic Problems with Large High-Frequency Summands

We develop the averaging method theory for parabolic problems with rapidly oscillating summands some of which are large, i.e., proportional to the square root of the frequency of oscillations. In this case the corresponding averaged problems do not coincide in general with those obtained by the traditional averaging, i.e., by formally averaging the summands of the initial problem (since the principal term of the asymptotic expansion of a solution to the latter problem is not in general a solution to the so-obtained problem). In this article we consider the question of time periodic solutions to the first boundary value problem for a semilinear parabolic equation of an arbitrary order 2k whose nonlinear terms, including the large, depend on the derivatives of the unknown up to the order k-1. We construct the averaged problem and the formal asymptotic expansion of a solution. When the large summands depend on the unknown rather than its derivatives we justify the averaging method and the complete asymptotic expansion of a solution.Original Russian Text Copyright © 2005 Levenshtam V. B.The author was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Grant 01-01-00678) and the Program “ Universities of Russia” (UR.04.01.029).__________Translated from Sibirskii Matematicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 46, No. 4, pp. 805–821, July–August, 2005.     

Asymptotic expansion for solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations with potential forces

We derive an asymptotic expansion for smooth solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations in weighted spaces. This result removes previous restrictions on the number of terms of the asymptotics, as well as on the range of the polynomial weights. We also write the expansion in terms of expressions involving non-linear quantities.     

Boundary layer problem of MHD system with non-characteristic perfect conducting wall

In this paper, we study the boundary layer problem for the incompressible MHD system with the magnetic field having a non-characteristic perfect conducting wall boundary condition. Using the multi-scale analysis and asymptotic expansion approach, we can construct the approximate solutions for the viscous and diffuse MHD system, and utilize the careful energy method to prove the validity of the approximate solutions.     

奇摄动分数阶微分方程的渐近解

本文研究了一类奇摄动非线性分数阶微分方程初值问题.利用伸长变量构造出解的形式展开式,并利用微分不等式理论,证明了解的一致有效的渐近式.所得的结果具有较好精度的近似解.     

Long Range Scattering and Modified Wave Operators for the Maxwell–Schrödinger System II. The General Case

We study the theory of scattering for the Maxwell–Schr?dinger system in space dimension 3, in the Coulomb gauge. We prove the existence of modified wave operators for that system with no size restriction on the Schr?dinger and Maxwell asymptotic data and we determine the asymptotic behaviour in time of solutions in the range of the wave operators. The method consists in partially solving the Maxwell equations for the potentials, substituting the result into the Schr?dinger equation, which then becomes both nonlinear and nonlocal in time. The Schr?dinger function is then parametrized in terms of an amplitude and a phase satisfying a suitable auxiliary system, and the Cauchy problem for that system, with prescribed asymptotic behaviour determined by the asymptotic data, is solved by an energy method, thereby leading to solutions of the original system with prescribed asymptotic behaviour in time. This paper is the generalization of a previous paper with the same title. However it is entirely self contained and can be read without any previous knowledge of the latter. Submitted: November 7, 2006. Accepted: November 14, 2006.