On Fourier series for higher order (partial) derivatives of functions

This paper is focused on higher order differentiation of Fourier series of functions. By means of Stokes's transformation, the recursion relations between the Fourier coefficients in Fourier series of different order (partial) derivatives of the functions as well as the general formulas for Fourier series of higher order (partial) derivatives of the functions are acquired. And then, the sufficient conditions for term‐by‐term differentiation of Fourier series of the functions are presented. These findings are subsequently used to reinvestigate the Fourier series methods for linear elasto‐dynamical systems. The results given in this paper on the constituent elements, together with their combinatorial modes and numbering, of the sets of coefficients concerning 2rth order linear differential equation with constant coefficients are found to be different from the results deduced by Chaudhuri back in 2002. And it is also shown that the displacement solution proposed by Li in 2009 is valid only when the second order mixed partial derivative of the displacement vanishes at all of the four corners of the rectangular plate. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Extremal solutions to a system of n nonlinear differential equations and regularly varying functions

The strongly increasing and strongly decreasing solutions to a system of n nonlinear first order equations are here studied, under the assumption that both the coefficients and the nonlinearities are regularly varying functions. We establish conditions under which such solutions exist and are (all) regularly varying functions, we derive their index of regular variation and establish asymptotic representations. Several applications of the main results are given, involving n‐th order nonlinear differential equations, equations with a generalized ?‐Laplacian, and nonlinear partial differential systems.     

On the Existence of Solutions for First Order Quasilinear Symmetrizable Systenis of Partial Differential Equations

In this paper we study the first order quasilinear symmetrizable system of partial differential equations $\sum\limits_{i = 1}^n {{a_i}(x,u)\frac{{\partial u}}{{\partial {x_i}}} + \lambda u = f(x,u)}$ (1) where a_i(x,y) are k*k matrices.     

New Kamenev-type oscillation criteria for half-linear partial differential equations

We establish new Kamenev-type oscillation criteria for the half-linear partial differential equation with damping under quite general conditions. These results are extensions of the recent results developed by Sun [Y.G. Sun, New Kamenev-type oscillation criteria of second order nonlinear differential equations with damping, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 291 (2004) 341-351] for second order ordinary differential equations in a natural way, and improve some existing results in the literature. As applications, we illustrate our main results using two different types of half-linear partial differential equations.     

On the asymptotic positivity of solutions for the extended Fisher–Kolmogorov equation with nonlinear diffusion

The objective of this paper aims to prove positivity of solutions for a semilinear dissipative partial differential equation with non‐linear diffusion. The equation is a generalized model of the well‐known Fisher–Kolmogorov equation and represents a class of dissipative partial differential equations containing differential operators of higher order than the Laplacian. It arises in a variety of meaningful physical situations including gas flows, diffusion of an electron–ion plasma and the dynamics of biological populations whose mobility is density dependent. In all these situations, the solutions of the equation must be positive functions. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Symmetry group analysis and similarity solutions for the (2+1)‐dimensional coupled Burger's system

Symmetry group analysis and similarity reduction of nonlinear system of coupled Burger equations in the form of nonlinear partial differential equation are analyzed via symmetry method. The symmetry method has led to similarity reductions of this equation to solvable form to third‐order partial differential equation. The infinitesimal, similarity variables, dependent variables, and reduction have been tabulated. The search for solutions of these systems by using the improved tanh method has yielded certain exact solutions expressed by rational functions. Some figures are given to show the properties of the solutions. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A Lie symmetry analysis and explicit solutions of the two‐dimensional ∞‐Polylaplacian

In this work, we consider the Lie point symmetry analysis of a strongly nonlinear partial differential equation of third order, the ∞‐Polylaplacian, in two spatial dimensions. This equation is a higher order generalization of the ∞‐Laplacian, also known as Aronsson's equation, and arises as the analog of the Euler–Lagrange equations of a second‐order variational principle in L^∞. We obtain its full symmetry group, one‐dimensional Lie subalgebras and the corresponding symmetry reductions to ordinary differential equations. Finally, we use the Lie symmetries to construct new invariant ∞‐Polyharmonic functions.     

Structured populations with distributed recruitment: from PDE to delay formulation

In this work, first, we consider a physiologically structured population model with a distributed recruitment process. That is, our model allows newly recruited individuals to enter the population at all possible individual states, in principle. The model can be naturally formulated as a first‐order partial integro‐differential equation, and it has been studied extensively. In particular, it is well posed on the biologically relevant state space of Lebesgue integrable functions. We also formulate a delayed integral equation (renewal equation) for the distributed birth rate of the population. We aim to illustrate the connection between the partial integro‐differential and the delayed integral equation formulation of the model utilising a recent spectral theoretic result. In particular, we consider the equivalence of the steady state problems in the two different formulations, which then lead us to characterise irreducibility of the semigroup governing the linear partial integro‐differential equation. Furthermore, using the method of characteristics, we investigate the connection between the time‐dependent problems. In particular, we prove that any (non‐negative) solution of the delayed integral equation determines a (non‐negative) solution of the partial differential equation and vice versa. The results obtained for the particular distributed states at birth model then lead us to present some very general results, which establish the equivalence between a general class of partial differential and delay equation, modelling physiologically structured populations. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

The Existence Theorem for Solutions of General Boundary Value Problem of Quasi-Linear Second Order Elliptic Differential Equations

In this paper, we provide the existence theorem for solutions of general boundary value problem of quasi-linear second order elliptic differential equations in the following form: $\[\sum\limits_{i,j = 1}^n {({a_{ij}}(x,u)\frac{{\partial u}}{{\partial {x_j}}}) + a(x,u,{u_{{x_k}}}),{\rm{ }}in} {\rm{ }}\Omega \]$, $\[\alpha (x,u)\frac{{\partial u}}{{\partial \gamma }} + \beta (x,u) = 0,{\rm{ on }}\partial \Omega \]$, where \alpha(x, u) \geq 0,\alpha_u(x, u) \leq 0 and \gamma is some direction, defining on $\[\partial \Omega \]$.     

Generalized solutions to partial differential equations of evolution type

This paper deals with a new solution concept for partial differential equations in algebras of generalized functions. Introducing regularized derivatives for generalized functions, we show that the Cauchy problem is wellposed backward and forward in time for every system of linear partial differential equations of evolution type in this sense. We obtain existence and uniqueness of generalized solutions in situations where there is no distributional solution or where even smooth solutions are nonunique. In the case of symmetric hyperbolic systems, the generalized solution has the classical weak solution as macroscopic aspect. Two extensions to nonlinear systems are given: global solutions to quasilinear evolution equations with bounded nonlinearities and local solutions to quasilinear symmetric hyperbolic systems.     

CFL condition,Boltzmann's H‐theorem,Onsager reciprocal relations and beyond

In this article, we show that the classical CFL condition from numerical analysis, Boltzmann's H‐theorem from kinetic theory and Onsager reciprocal relations from nonequilibrium thermodynamics are all related to some structural stability conditions for nonhomogeneous systems of first‐order partial differential equations. By doing this, we briefly review our previous works on first‐order partial differential equations. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Computational methods for delay parabolic and time‐fractional partial differential equations

This article is concerned with ?‐methods for delay parabolic partial differential equations. The methodology is extended to time‐fractional‐order parabolic partial differential equations in the sense of Caputo. The fully implicit scheme preserves delay‐independent asymptotic stability and the solution continuously depends on the time‐fractional order. Several numerical examples of interest are included to demonstrate the effectiveness of the method. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq 2010     

Numerical solution of nonlinear partial quadratic integro‐differential equations of fractional order via hybrid of block‐pulse and parabolic functions

In this paper, an effective numerical approach based on a new two‐dimensional hybrid of parabolic and block‐pulse functions (2D‐PBPFs) is presented for solving nonlinear partial quadratic integro‐differential equations of fractional order. Our approach is based on 2D‐PBPFs operational matrix method together with the fractional integral operator, described in the Riemann–Liouville sense. The main characteristic behind this approach is to reduce such problems to those of solving systems of algebraic equations, which greatly simplifies the problem. By using Newton's iterative method, this system is solved, and the solution of fractional nonlinear partial quadratic integro‐differential equations is achieved. Convergence analysis and an error estimate associated with the proposed method is obtained, and it is proved that the numerical convergence order of the suggested numerical method is O(h³) . The validity and applicability of the method are demonstrated by solving three numerical examples. Numerical examples are presented in the form of tables and graphs to make comparisons with the exact solutions much easier.     

A New Uniform Convergence for Partial Functions

Suppose X, Y are topological spaces. In this paper maps are not necessarily continuous. A map f from a non-empty subset of X to Y is called a partial map. Partial maps occur as inverse functions in elementary analysis, as solution of ordinary differential equations, as utility functions in mathematical economics, etc. In many applications, X and Y are metric spaces and there is a need to have a uniform convergence on a family of partial functions. Since partial maps do not have a common domain, the usual uniform convergence (u.c.) is not available. Noting that in many situations, all maps of a family under consideration, have a common range, we define a new uniform convergence (n.u.c.) that is complementary to the usual one. This n.u.c. does not preserve continuity but preserves (uniform) openness. Its usefulness stems from the fact that it can be used when u.c. cannot be defined. Moreover, in some situations where both u.c. and n.u.c. are available, the latter satisfies our intuition but not the former. We give applications to ODE's and throw some light on earlier literature.     

The use of cubic B‐spline scaling functions for solving the one‐dimensional hyperbolic equation with a nonlocal conservation condition

Problems for parabolic partial differential equations with nonlocal boundary conditions have been studied in many articles, but boundary value problems for hyperbolic partial differential equations have so far remained nearly uninvestigated. In this article a numerical technique is presented for the solution of a nonclassical problem for the one‐dimensional wave equation. This method uses the cubic B‐spline scaling functions. Some numerical results are reported to support our study. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq, 2007     

On the optimization of flux limiter schemes for hyperbolic conservation laws

A classic strategy to obtain high‐quality discretizations of hyperbolic partial differential equations is to use flux limiter (FL) functions for blending two types of approximations: a monotone first‐order scheme that deals with discontinuous solution features and a higher order method for approximating smooth solution parts. In this article, we study a new approach to FL methods. Relying on a classification of input data with respect to smoothness, we associate specific basis functions with the individual smoothness notions. Then, we construct a limiter as a linear combination of the members of parameter‐dependent families of basis functions, and we explore the possibility to optimize the parameters in interesting model situations to find a corresponding optimal limiter. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq, 2013     

Implicitly enriched Galerkin methods for numerical solutions of fourth‐order partial differential equations containing singularities

Highlights are the following:

• For any integer , we construct ‐continuous partition of unity (PU) functions with flat‐top from B‐spline functions to have numerical solutions of fourth‐order equations with singularities. B‐spline functions are modified to satisfy clamped boundary conditions.
• To handle singularity arising in fourth‐order elliptic differential equations, these modified B‐spline functions are enriched either by introducing enrichment basis functions implicitly through particular geometric mappings or by adding singular basis functions explicitly.
• To show the effectiveness of the proposed implicit enrichment methods (mapping method), the accuracy, the number of degrees of freedom (DOF), and matrix condition numbers are computed and compared in the h‐refinement, the p‐refinement, and the k‐refinement of the approximation space of B‐spline basis functions.

Using Partition of unity (PU) functions with flat‐top, B‐spline functions are modified to satisfy boundary conditions of the fourth‐order equations. Since the standard isogeometric analysis (IGA) as well as the conventional FEM have limitations in handling fourth‐order differential equations containing singularities, we consider two enrichment methods (explicit and implicit) in the framework of the p‐, the k, and the h‐refinements of IGA. We demonstrate that both enrichment methods yield good approximate solutions, but explicit enrichment methods give large (almost singular) matrix condition numbers and face integrating singular functions. Because of these limitations of external enrichment methods, we extensively investigate implicit enrichment methods (mapping methods) that virtually convert fourth‐order elliptic problems with singularities to problems with no influence of the singularities. Effectiveness of the proposed mapping method extensively tested to one‐dimensional fourth‐order equation with singularities. The implicit enrichment (mapping) method is extended to the two‐dimensional cases and test it to fourth‐order partial differential equations on cracked domains.     

Bergmansche Polynom-Erzeugende Erster Art

This paper is concerned with special Bergman operators for linear partial differential equations. E. Kreyszig introduced a class of equations which possess polynomials as generating functions for Bergman operators. These generating functions permit an integral-free representation of the solutions which can also be obtained by K. W. Bauer's and E. Peschl's differential operators, as was shown by M. Kracht and E. Kreyszig. For an extension of Kreyszig's class by W. Watzlawek we state conditions that are necessary and sufficient for the existence of a polynomial generating function of the first kind. We give an explicit characterization of the corresponding subclass and a representation of those generating functions, which are important for developing a function theory of the equations considered.     

A generalization of trigonometric convexity and its relation to positive harmonic functions in homogeneous domains

We consider functions which are subfunctions with respect to the differential operator