Derivation of equations of seismic and acoustic wave propagation and equations of filtration via homogenization of periodic structures

A linear system of differential equations describing a joint motion of elastic porous body and fluid occupying porous space is considered. Although the problem is linear, it is very hard to tackle due to the fact that its main differential equations involve nonsmooth oscillatory coefficients, both big and small, under the differentiation operators. The rigorous justification, under various conditions imposed on physical parameters, is fulfilled for homogenization procedures as the dimensionless size of the pores tends to zero, while the porous body is geometrically periodic. As the results for different ratios between physical parameters, we derive Biot’s equations of poroelasticity, a system consisting of nonisotropic Lamé’s equations for the solid component and acoustic equations for the liquid component, nonisotropic Lamé’s equations or equations of viscoelasticity for one-velocity continuum, decoupled system consisting of Darcy’s system of filtration or acoustic equations for the liquid component (first approximation) and nonisotropic Lamé’s equations for the solid component (second approximation), a system consisting of nonisotropic Stokes equations for the liquid component and acoustic equations for the solid component, nonisotropic Stokes equations for one-velocity continuum, or, finally a different type of acoustic equations for one- or two-velocity continuum. The proofs are based on Nguetseng’s two-scale convergence method of homogenization in periodic structures.     

Structural theory of special functions

A block diagram is suggested for classifying differential equations whose solutions are special functions of mathematical physics. Three classes of these equations are identified: the hypergeometric, Heun, and Painlevé classes. The constituent types of equations are listed for each class. The confluence processes that transform one type into another are described. The interrelations between the equations belonging to different classes are indicated. For example, the Painlevé-class equations are equations of classical motion for Hamiltonians corresponding to Heun-class equations, and linearizing the Painlevé-class equations leads to hypergeometric-class equations. The “confluence principle” is stated, and an example of its application is given. Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 119, No. 1, pp. 3–19, April, 1999.     

The general equations of analytical dynamics

It is shown that the generalized Poincaré and Chetayev equations, which represent the equations of motion of mechanical systems using a certain closed system of infinitesimal linear operators, are related to the fundamental equations of analytical dynamics. Equations are derived in quasi-coordinates for the case of redundant variables; it is shown that when an energy integral exists the operator X₀ = ∂/∂t satisfies the Chetayev cyclic-displacement conditions. Using the energy integral the order of the system of equations of motion is reduced, and generalized Jacobi-Whittaker equations are derived from the Chetayev equations. It is shown that the Poincaré-Chetayev equations are equivalent to a number of equations of motion of non-holonomic systems, in particular, the Maggi, Volterra, Kane, and so on, equations. On the basis of these, and also of other previously obtained results, the Poincaré and Chetayev equations in redundant variables, applicable both to holonomic and non-holonomic systems, can be regarded as general equations of classical dynamics, equivalent to the well-known fundamental forms of the equations of motion, a number of which follow as special cases from the Poincaré and Chetayev equations.     

Contact linearization of nondegenerate Monge-Ampère equations

The present paper is devoted to the problem of transforming the classical Monge-Ampère equations to the linear equations by change of variables. The class of Monge-Ampère equations is distinguished from the variety of second-order partial differential equations by the property that this class is closed under contact transformations. This fact was known already to Sophus Lie who studied the Monge-Ampère equations using methods of contact geometry. Therefore it is natural to consider the classification problems for the Monge-Ampère equations with respect to the pseudogroup of contact transformations. In the present paper we give the complete solution to the problem of linearization of regular elliptic and hyperbolic Monge-Ampère equations with respect to contact transformations. In order to solve this problem, we construct invariants of the Monge-Ampère equations and the Laplace differential forms, which involve the classical Laplace invariants as coefficients.     

Existence of solutions for the MHD-Leray-alpha equations and their relations to the MHD equations

In this paper we derive some new equations and we call them MHD-Leray-alpha equations which are similar to the MHD equations. We put forward the concept of weak and strong solutions for the new equations. Whether the 3-dimensional MHD equations have a unique weak solution is unknown, however, there is a unique weak solution for the 3-dimensional MHD-Leray-alpha equations. The global existence of strong solution and the Gevrey class regularity for the new equations are also obtained. Furthermore, we prove that the solutions of the MHD-Leray-alpha equations converge to the solution of the MHD equations in the weak sense as the parameter ε in the new equations converges to zero.     

One method for solving systems of nonlinear partial differential equations

A method for reducing systems of partial differential equations to corresponding systems of ordinary differential equations is proposed. A system of equations describing two-dimensional, cylindrical, and spherical flows of a polytropic gas; a system of dimensionless Stokes equations for the dynamics of a viscous incompressible fluid; a system of Maxwell’s equations for vacuum; and a system of gas dynamics equations in cylindrical coordinates are studied. It is shown how this approach can be used for solving certain problems (shockless compression, turbulence, etc.).     

Periodic solutions of functional dynamic equations with infinite delay

In this paper, sufficient criteria are established for the existence of periodic solutions of some functional dynamic equations with infinite delays on time scales, which generalize and incorporate as special cases many known results for differential equations and for difference equations when the time scale is the set of the real numbers or the integers, respectively. The approach is mainly based on the Krasnosel’ski? fixed point theorem, which has been extensively applied in studying existence problems in differential equations and difference equations but rarely applied in studying dynamic equations on time scales. This study shows that one can unify such existence studies in the sense of dynamic equations on general time scales.     

抽象函数空间的连续小波变换和微分方程

主要讨论了抽象函数的某些微分方程和相应的积分方程之间的关系;通过连续小波变换将这些微分方程能够转换为相应的积分方程;这些微分方程和相应的积分方程在弱收敛意义下是等价的.     

Limit relations for three simple hyperbolic systems of conservation laws

This paper is concerned with the limit relations from the Euler equations of one‐dimensional compressible fluid flow and the magnetohydrodynamics equations to the simplified transport equations, where the δ‐shock waves occur in their Riemann solutions of the latter two equations. The objective is to prove that the Riemann solutions of the perturbed equations coming from the one‐dimensional simplified Euler equations and the magnetohydrodynamics equations converge to the corresponding Riemann solutions of the simplified transport equations as the perturbation parameterx ε tends to zero. Furthermore, the result can also be generalized to more general situations. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

On the solvability of some nonlinear Elliptic problems

The solvability of second-order nonlinear elliptic equations in weighted Sobolev spaces is analyzed. An additional condition ensuring the solvability of such equations is that the average of the desired solution over some circle of fixed radius is zero. Examples are equations containing a weighted p-Laplacian and the Euler equations.     

Runge–Kutta Based Procedure for the Optimal Control of Differential-Algebraic Equations

A new approach for optimization of control problems defined by fully implicit differential-algebraic equations is described in the paper. The main feature of the approach is that system equations are substituted by discrete-time implicit equations resulting from the integration of the system equations by an implicit Runge–Kutta method. The optimization variables are parameters of piecewise constant approximations to control functions; thus, the control problem is reduced to the control space only. The method copes efficiently with problems defined by large-scale differential-algebraic equations.     

A note on the polynomial solution of a class of dual integral equations arising in mixed boundary value problems of elasticity

Summary The present paper is concerned with finding an effective polynomial solution to a class of dual integral equations which arise in many mixed boundary value problems in the theory of elasticity. The dual integral equations are first transformed into a Fredholm integration equation of the second kind via an auxiliary function, which is next reduced to an infinite system of linear algebraic equations by representing the unknown auxiliary function in the form of an infinite series of Jacobi polynomials. The approximate solution of this infinite system of equations can be obtained by a suitable truncation. It is shown that the unknown function involving the dual integral equations can also be expressed in the form of an infinite series of Jacobi polynomials with the same expansion coefficients with no numerical integration involved. The main advantage of the present approach is that the solution of the dual integral equations thus obtained is numerically more stable than that obtained by reducing themdirectly into an infinite system of equations, insofar as the expansion coefficients are determined essentially by solving asecond kind integral equation.     

Convergence of rank-type equations

Convergence results are presented for rank-type difference equations, whose evolution rule is defined at each step as the kth largest of p univariate difference equations. If the univariate equations are individually contractive, then the equation converges to a fixed point equal to the kth largest of the individual fixed points of the univariate equations. Examples are max-type equations for k = 1, and the median of an odd number p of equations, for k = (p + 1)/2. In the non-hyperbolic case, conjectures are stated about the eventual periodicity of the equations, generalizing long-standing conjectures of G. Ladas.     

Equilibrium configurations of plasma in the approximation of two-fluid magnetohydrodynamics with electron inertia taken into account

A single-fluid version of the equations of two-fluid magnetohydrodynamics is obtained. This paper is concerned with the following topics: derivation of the energy conservation law; proof of degenerate ellipticity of the the generalized Ampère’s law; passage to the limit to the equations of the classical magnetohydrodynamics; derivation of plasmastatics equations that generalize the Grad–Shafranov equations and that belong to the class of equations of mixed type: elliptic for dense plasma and hyperbolic for rarefied plasma; analytical and numerical analysis of their solutions for the θ-pinch and z-pinch.     

Decomposition of a 2 + 1-dimensional Volterra type lattice and its quasi-periodic solutions

A 2 + 1-dimensional Volttera type lattice is proposed. Resorting to the nonlinearization of Lax pair, the 2 + 1-dimensional Volttera type lattice is decomposed into the known 1+1-dimensional differential-difference equations. The relation between a new 2 + 1-dimensional differential-difference equation, certain 1+1-dimensional continuous evolution equations and the known 1+1-dimensional differential-difference equations is discussed. Based on finite-order expansion of the Lax matrix, we introduce elliptic coordinates, from which the two 2 + 1-dimensional differential-difference equations are separated into solvable ordinary differential equations. The evolution of various flows is explicitly given through the Abel–Jacobi coordinates. Quasi-periodic solutions for the two 2 + 1-dimensional differential-difference equations are obtained.     

Diagram equations of the theory of fully developed turbulence

Skeleton diagram equations of turbulence theory — the Dyson equations and the equations for vertices of three types — are obtained nonperturbatively. Their derivation is based on the use of an equation in functional derivatives for the characteristic functional of a hydrodynamic system described by Navier-Stokes equations in the presence of an external random force. The iterative solution of these equations reproduces the perturbation series for second moments that is usually obtained in a more complicated way and also the series for the third moments.Institute of Problems in Mechanics, Russian Academy of Sciences. Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 101, No. 1, pp. 28–37, October, 1994.     

Global continuation of forced oscillations of retarded motion equations on manifolds

We investigate T-periodic parametrized retarded functional motion equations on (possibly) noncompact manifolds; that is, constrained second order retarded functional differential equations. For such equations we prove a global continuation result for T-periodic solutions. The approach is topological and is based on the degree theory for tangent vector fields as well as on the fixed point index theory.Our main theorem is a generalization to the case of retarded equations of an analogous result obtained by the last two authors for second order differential equations on manifolds. As corollaries we derive a Rabinowitz-type global bifurcation result and a Mawhin-type continuation principle. Finally, we deduce the existence of forced oscillations for the retarded spherical pendulum under general assumptions.     

Local existence of solutions of the vlasov-maxwell equations and convergence to the vlasov-poisson equations for infinite light velocity

We prove the local existence of smooth solutions for the Vlasov-Maxwell equations in three space variables. The existence time for such solutions is independent of the light velocity c. Then we derive regularity results for both the Vlasov-Poisson and the Vlasov-Maxwell equations. The last part of the paper is devoted to a proof of weak and strong convergence of the Vlasov-Maxwell equations towards the Vlasov-Poisson equations, when the light velocity c goes to infinity.     

On the Hyers–Ulam stabilities of functional equations on ‐Banach spaces

The purpose of this article is to generalize the theory of stability of functional equations to the case of n‐Banach spaces. In this article, we prove the generalized Hyers–Ulam stabilities of the Cauchy functional equations, Jensen functional equations and quadratic functional equations on n‐Banach spaces.