Identifying unknown terms in hyperbolic and parabolic equations

We recover unknown source terms in nonlinear hyperbolic differential equations and in nonlinear parabolic integro-differential equations in one space variable under the assumption of knowing a first integral (in the hyperbolic case) or the value of the solution at a point inside the domain (in the parabolic case). For this class of problems we prove existence results in classes of smooth solutions. Moreover, for linear hyperbolic and parabolic differential equations in one space variable we recover some characteristic parameters. Conferenza tenuta il giorno 29 Novembre 1999     

双参数非线性非局部奇摄动抛物型初始-边值问题的广义解

研究了一类广义抛物型方程奇摄动问题.首先在一定的条件下, 提出了一类具有两参数的非线性非局部广义抛物型方程初始 边值问题.其次证明了相应问题解的存在性.然后, 通过Fredholm积分方程得到了初始 边值问题的外部解.再利用泛函分析理论和伸长变量及多重尺度法, 分别构造了初始 边值问题广义解的边界层、初始层项,从而得到了问题的形式渐近展开式.最后利用不动点理论证明了对应的非线性非局部广义抛物型方程的奇异摄动初始 边值问题的广义解的渐近展开式的一致有效性.     

Solvability of Unilateral Parabolic Problems and Variational Inequalities

Sufficient conditions are given for the existence of solutions of strong parabolic variational inequalities with nonlinear and multi-valued operators. Pseudomonotone operators are used. A new multi-valued analogue of the acute-angle lemma is used for the localization. The theory can be applied to problems with distributed parameters. We also consider conditions for the existence of strong generalized solutions of parabolic equations with unilateral boundary conditions with applications to control problems.__________Translated from Trudy Seminara imeni I. G. Petrovskogo, No. 24, pp. 250–303, 2004.     

Global gradient estimates for degenerate parabolic equations in nonsmooth domains

This paper studies the global regularity theory for degenerate nonlinear parabolic partial differential equations. Our objective is to show that weak solutions belong to a higher Sobolev space than assumed a priori if the complement of the domain satisfies a capacity density condition and if the boundary values are sufficiently smooth. Moreover, we derive integrability estimates for the gradient. The results extend to the parabolic systems as well. The higher integrability estimates provide a useful tool in several applications.      

A Hilbert space approach to instability in semilinear partial differential equations

A method of R. Bellman in the instability theory of autonomous nonlinear ODE is enlarged to incompass semilinear evolution equations of the form u￠+Lu=f(u)u'+Lu=f(u) in the Hilbert space framework. As a consequence it is shown that linearized instability of solutions to parabolic problems with linear damping in a bounded domain implies the Liapounov instability in those topologies for which the question is meaningful.     

EXISTENCE,MULTIPLICITY AND STABILITY RESULTS FOR POSITIVE SOLUTIONS OF NONLINEAR p-LAPLACIAN EQUATIONS

This paper studies the existence of positive solutions of the Dirichlet problem for the nonlinear equation involving p-Laplacian operator:-△pu=λf(u) on a bounded smooth domain Ω in Rn. The authors extend part of the Crandall-Rabinowitz bifurcation theory to this problem. Typical examples are checked in detail and multiplicity of the solutions are illustrated. Then the stability for the associated parabolic equation is considered and a Fujita-type result is presented.     

Liouville theorems,a priori estimates,and blow-up rates for solutions of indefinite superlinear parabolic problems

In this paper we establish new nonlinear Liouville theorems for parabolic problems on half spaces. Based on the Liouville theorems, we derive estimates for the blow-up of positive solutions of indefinite parabolic problems and investigate the complete blow-up of these solutions. We also discuss a priori estimates for indefinite elliptic problems.     

Stability and attractivity of periodic solutions of parabolic systems with time delays

This paper is concerned with the existence, stability, and global attractivity of time-periodic solutions for a class of coupled parabolic equations in a bounded domain. The problem under consideration includes coupled system of parabolic and ordinary differential equations, and time delays may appear in the nonlinear reaction functions. Our approach to the problem is by the method of upper and lower solutions and its associated monotone iterations. The existence of time-periodic solutions is for a class of locally Lipschitz continuous reaction functions without any quasimonotone requirement using Schauder fixed point theorem, while the stability and attractivity analysis is for quasimonotone nondecreasing and mixed quasimonotone reaction functions using the monotone iterative scheme. The results for the general system are applied to the standard parabolic equations without time delay and to the corresponding ordinary differential system. Applications are also given to three Lotka-Volterra reaction diffusion model problems, and in each problem a sufficient condition on the reaction rates is obtained to ensure the stability and global attractivity of positive periodic solutions.     

Quasilinear parabolic and elliptic equations with nonlinear boundary conditions

This paper is concerned with a class of quasilinear parabolic and elliptic equations in a bounded domain with both Dirichlet and nonlinear Neumann boundary conditions. The equation under consideration may be degenerate or singular depending on the property of the diffusion coefficient. The consideration of the class of equations is motivated by some heat-transfer problems where the heat capacity and thermal conductivity are both temperature dependent. The aim of the paper is to show the existence and uniqueness of a global time-dependent solution of the parabolic problem, existence of maximal and minimal steady-state solutions of the elliptic problem, including conditions for the uniqueness of a solution, and the asymptotic behavior of the time-dependent solution in relation to the steady-state solutions. Applications are given to some heat-transfer problems and an extended logistic reaction–diffusion equation.     

Strong full bounded solutions of nonlinear parabolic equations with nonlinear boundary conditions

We study the existence of (generalized) bounded solutions existing for all times for nonlinear parabolic equations with nonlinear boundary conditions on a domain that is bounded in space and unbounded in time (the entire real line). We give a counterexample which shows that a (weak) maximum principle does not hold in general for linear problems defined on the entire real line in time. We consider a boundedness condition at minus infinity to establish (one-sided) L^∞-a priori estimates for solutions to linear boundary value problems and derive a weak maximum principle which is valid on the entire real line in time. We then take up the case of nonlinear problems with (possibly) nonlinear boundary conditions. By using comparison techniques, some (delicate) a priori estimates obtained herein, and nonlinear approximation methods, we prove the existence and, in some instances, positivity and uniqueness of strong full bounded solutions existing for all times.     

High order nonlinear parabolic equations

The basic results and methods of the theory of high order nonlinear parabolic equations are described. In the first chapter boundary problems for quasilinear parabolic equations having divergent form are considered. In the second chapter nonlinear parabolic equations of general form are considered. Attention is mainly paid to methods of study of nonlinear parabolic problems. In particular, the methods of monotonicity and compactness, the method of a priori estimates, the functional-analytic method, etc. are described.Translated from Itogi Nauki i Tekhniki, Seriya Sovremennye Problemy Matematiki, Noveishie Dostizheniya, Vol. 37, pp. 89–166, 1990.     

Approximate periodic solutions of a nonlinear parabolic system and an identification problem

This work continues our study in [L. Lei, Identification of parameters through the approximate periodic solutions of a linear parabolic system, preprint, 2005] on the identification problem for the coefficients for the lower order terms in a parabolic system, through its approximate periodic solutions. Different from the work in [L. Lei, Identification of parameters through the approximate periodic solutions of a linear parabolic system, preprint, 2005], our system now is nonlinear and the coefficients to be detected are from the first order term. From the application point of view, we now try to determine the diffusion coefficients for the system by the observation over a subregion of the physical domain. The existence and uniqueness problem of the approximate periodic solutions is studied in the first part of the paper.     

Propagation of Singularities of Solutions to Hyperbolic‐Parabolic Coupled Systems

In this paper, the authors study the propagation of singlarities for a semilinear hyperbolic‐parabolic coupled system, which comes from the model of thermoelasticity. Both of the Cauchy problem and the problem inside of a domain are considered. We obtain that the microlocal singularities of solutions to the semilinear hyperbolic‐parabolic coupled system are propagated along null bicharacteristics of the hyperbolic operator by using the theory of paradifferential operators. Furthermore, for the Cauchy problem of the semilinear coupled system, if the initial data have singularities at the origin, we prove that the solutions have the same order regularity with respect to spatial variables as in hyperbolic problems in the forward characteristic cone issuing from the origin, which improves the previous results for semilinear systems in thermoelasticity.     

Boundary and internal layers in the reaction-diffusion problem with a nonlocal inhibitor

A nonlinear parabolic integral problem arising in dynamic simulation of processes in activator-inhibitor systems is considered. Based on the asymptotic theory of such problems previously developed by the authors, the existence of solutions with boundary and internal layers is proved and their asymptotic behavior is found.     

Existence of solutions and existence of optimal solutions. The quasi linear case

By properties of operators of the Brezis type (m), monotone operator theory, and fixed point theorems, the authors prove existence theorems for solutions, and existence theorems for optimal solutions, in problems monitored by nonlinear abstract parabolic type equations. Applications are made to Cauchy-Dirichlet and to Cauchy-Neumann problems, in a cylinder. It is shown that seminormality requirements of previous papers can be dropped. In an alternative approach, controllability results are obtained by a direct application of Kakutani type fixed point theorems.     

Uniform quadratic convergence of monotone iterates for nonlinear singularly perturbed parabolic problems

This paper deals with a monotone iterative method for solving nonlinear singularly perturbed parabolic problems. Monotone sequences, based on the method of upper and lower solutions, are constructed for a nonlinear difference scheme which approximates the nonlinear parabolic problem. This monotone convergence leads to the existence-uniqueness theorem. The monotone sequences possess quadratic convergence rate. An analysis of uniform convergence of the monotone iterative method to the solutions of the nonlinear difference scheme and to the continuous problem is given. Numerical experiments are presented.     

Solution of Parabolic Equations by Means of Lyapunov Functionals

We propose a new approach to defining the notion of a solution to linear and nonlinear parabolic equations. The main idea consists in studying connections between solutions to dynamic problems in the variational shape and the properties of the corresponding Lyapunov functionals which are strictly decreasing along the trajectories of the above-mentioned dynamic equations except for the equilibrium points. It turns out that the families of Lyapunov functionals constructed by T. I. Zelenyak enable us to propose a new approach to defining solutions to both linear and nonlinear parabolic problems. All results are given in the case of smooth solutions. Note that the Lyapunov functionals can be used for studying solutions with unbounded gradients.     

Concentrated terms and varying domains in elliptic equations: Lipschitz case

In this paper, we analyze the behavior of a family of solutions of a nonlinear elliptic equation with nonlinear boundary conditions, when the boundary of the domain presents a highly oscillatory behavior, which is uniformly Lipschitz and nonlinear terms, are concentrated in a region, which neighbors the boundary of domain. We prove that this family of solutions converges to the solutions of a limit problem in H¹an elliptic equation with nonlinear boundary conditions which captures the oscillatory behavior of the boundary and whose nonlinear terms are transformed into a flux condition on the boundary. Indeed, we show the upper semicontinuity of this family of solutions.Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

On the sufficient condition for regularity of a boundary point for singular parabolic equations with non‐standard growth

We investigate the continuity of solutions for general nonlinear parabolic equations with non‐standard growth near a nonsmooth boundary of a cylindrical domain. We prove a sufficient condition for regularity of a boundary point.     

Patterns in parabolic problems with nonlinear boundary conditions

We obtain existence of asymptotically stable nonconstant equilibrium solutions for semilinear parabolic equations with nonlinear boundary conditions on small domains connected by thin channels. We prove the convergence of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the Laplace operator in such domains. This information is used to show that the asymptotic dynamics of the heat equation in this domain is equivalent to the asymptotic dynamics of a system of two ordinary differential equations diffusively (weakly) coupled. The main tools employed are the invariant manifold theory and a uniform trace theorem.