Dynamics in dumbbell domains II. The limiting problem

In this work we continue the analysis of the asymptotic dynamics of reaction-diffusion problems in a dumbbell domain started in [J.M. Arrieta, A.N. Carvalho, G. Lozada-Cruz, Dynamics in dumbbell domains I. Continuity of the set of equilibria, J. Differential Equations 231 (2) (2006) 551-597]. Here we study the limiting problem, that is, an evolution problem in a “domain” which consists of an open, bounded and smooth set Ω⊂RN with a curve R₀ attached to it. The evolution in both parts of the domain is governed by a parabolic equation. In Ω the evolution is independent of the evolution in R₀ whereas in R₀ the evolution depends on the evolution in Ω through the continuity condition of the solution at the junction points. We analyze in detail the linear elliptic and parabolic problem, the generation of linear and nonlinear semigroups, the existence and structure of attractors.     

Navier-Stokes equations in 3D thin domains with Navier friction boundary condition

In this article we study the 3D Navier-Stokes equations with Navier friction boundary condition in thin domains. We prove the global existence of strong solutions to the 3D Navier-Stokes equations when the initial data and external forces are in large sets as the thickness of the domain is small. We generalize the techniques developed to study the 3D Navier-Stokes equations in thin domains, see [G. Raugel, G. Sell, Navier-Stokes equations on thin 3D domains I: Global attractors and global regularity of solutions, J. Amer. Math. Soc. 6 (1993) 503-568; G. Raugel, G. Sell, Navier-Stokes equations on thin 3D domains II: Global regularity of spatially periodic conditions, in: Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Their Application, College de France Seminar, vol. XI, Longman, Harlow, 1994, pp. 205-247; R. Temam, M. Ziane, Navier-Stokes equations in three-dimensional thin domains with various boundary conditions, Adv. Differential Equations 1 (1996) 499-546; R. Temam, M. Ziane, Navier-Stokes equations in thin spherical shells, in: Optimization Methods in Partial Differential Equations, in: Contemp. Math., vol. 209, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1996, pp. 281-314], to the Navier friction boundary condition by introducing a new average operator Mε in the thin direction according to the spectral decomposition of the Stokes operator Aε. Our analysis hinges on the refined investigation of the eigenvalue problem corresponding to the Stokes operator Aε with Navier friction boundary condition.     

Discontinuous Oblique Derivative Problem for Second Order Equations of Mixed Type in General Domains

In [L. Bers (1958). Mathematical Aspects of Subsonic and Transonic Gas Dynamics . Wiley, New York; A.V. Bitsadze (1988). Some Classes of Partial Differential Equations . Gordon and Breach, New York; J.M. Rassias (1990). Lecture Notes on Mixed Type Partial Differential Equations. World Scientific, Singapore; H.S. Sun (1992). Tricomi problem for nonlinear equation of mixed type. Sci. in China ( Series A ), 35 , 14-20], the authors proposed and discussed the Tricomi problem of second order equations of mixed type in a special domain, and in [G.C. Wen (1998). Oblique derivative problems for linear mixed equations of second order. Sci. in China ( Series A ), 41 , 346-356], the author discussed the oblique derivative problem of second order equations of mixed type in a special domain. The present article deals with the discontinuous oblique derivative problem for quasilinear second order equations of mixed (elliptic-hyperbolic) type in general domains. Firstly, we give the formulation of the above boundary value problem, and then prove the existence of solutions for the above problem in general domains, in which the complex analytic method is used.     

Remarks on Barbashin-Ezeilo Problem on third-order nonlinear differential equations

In this paper, we use the frequency domain criteria to initiate a general result on the Barbashin-Ezeilo Problem on third-order nonlinear differential equation. Earlier ideas of Burkin [I.M. Burkin, Orbital stability of second-kind limiting cycles for dynamical systems with cylindrical phase space, Differential Equations 29 (1993) 1262-1264], Leonov [G.A. Leonov, A frequency criterion for the existence of limit cycles of dynamical systems with cylindrical phase spaces, Differential Equations 23 (1987) 1375-1378] on the problem are being improved upon.     

Steady flow for incompressible fluids in domains with unbounded curved channels

We give an overview on the solution of the stationary Navier-Stokes equations for non newtonian incompressible fluids established by G. Dias and M.M. Santos (Steady flow for shear thickening fluids with arbitrary fluxes, J. Differential Equations 252 (2012), no. 6, 3873-3898), propose a definition for domains with unbounded curved channels which encompasses domains with an unbounded boundary, domains with nozzles, and domains with a boundary being a punctured surface, and argue on the existence of steady flowfor incompressible fluids with arbitrary fluxes in such domains.     

An extension of the concept of gradient semigroups which is stable under perturbation

In this article we introduce the concept of a gradient-like nonlinear semigroup as an intermediate concept between a gradient nonlinear semigroup (those possessing a Lyapunov function, see [J.K. Hale, Asymptotic Behavior of Dissipative Systems, Math. Surveys Monogr., vol. 25, Amer. Math. Soc., 1989]) and a nonlinear semigroup possessing a gradient-like attractor. We prove that a perturbation of a gradient-like nonlinear semigroup remains a gradient-like nonlinear semigroup. Moreover, for non-autonomous dynamical systems we introduce the concept of a gradient-like evolution process and prove that a non-autonomous perturbation of a gradient-like nonlinear semigroup is a gradient-like evolution process. For gradient-like nonlinear semigroups and evolution processes, we prove continuity, characterization and (pullback and forwards) exponential attraction of their attractors under perturbation extending the results of [A.N. Carvalho, J.A. Langa, J.C. Robinson, A. Suárez, Characterization of non-autonomous attractors of a perturbed gradient system, J. Differential Equations 236 (2007) 570-603] on characterization and of [A.V. Babin, M.I. Vishik, Attractors in Evolutionary Equations, Stud. Math. Appl., vol. 25, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1992] on exponential attraction.     

Uniqueness and exact multiplicity of solutions for a class of Dirichlet problems

We apply the “monotone separation of graphs” technique of L.A. Peletier and J. Serrin [L.A. Peletier, J. Serrin, Uniqueness of positive solutions of semilinear equations in Rn, Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 81 (2) (1983) 181-197; L.A. Peletier, J. Serrin, Uniqueness of nonnegative solutions of semilinear equations in Rn, J. Differential Equations 61 (3) (1986) 380-397], as developed further by L. Erbe and M. Tang [L. Erbe, M. Tang, Structure of positive radial solutions of semilinear elliptic equations, J. Differential Equations 133 (2) (1997) 179-202], to the question of exact multiplicity of positive solutions for a class of semilinear equations on a unit ball in Rn. We also observe that using P. Pucci and J. Serrin [P. Pucci, J. Serrin, Uniqueness of ground states for quasilinear elliptic operators, Indiana Univ. Math. J. 47 (2) (1998) 501-528] improvement of a certain identity of L. Erbe and M. Tang [L. Erbe, M. Tang, Structure of positive radial solutions of semilinear elliptic equations, J. Differential Equations 133 (2) (1997) 179-202] produces a short proof of L. Erbe and M. Tang [L. Erbe, M. Tang, Structure of positive radial solutions of semilinear elliptic equations, J. Differential Equations 133 (2) (1997) 179-202] result on the uniqueness of positive solution of (1<p, )

     

GAMM Annual Meeting – Luxembourg 2005 Overview of the Sessions

Volume 5 (2005) of PAMM “Proceedings in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics” assembles the contributions to the GAMM Annual Meeting 2005, held 28 March–01 April 2005 in Luxembourg. The contributions are grouped according to the minisymposia and sessions of the conference. Minisymposia M1 Water Waves M2 Procedures and Applications of Stochastic Optimization in Traffic Engineering M3 Levelset methods M4 Inverse Problems, Parameter Estimation M5 Multifield Problems M6 Computational Methods in Limit Load and Shakedown Analysis M7 Soft Tissue Biomechanics M8 Structure Dynamics and Transport in Soils Young researchers' Minisymposia (Nachwuchssymposien) N1 Computational Optimisation with Differential Equations N2 Computational Inverse Problems N3 Rolling Contact Mechanics N4 Microstructure in Extended Continua: Modeling and Analysis for Solids Sessions 1–25 1 Linear and Nonlinear Oscillations 2 Stability and Control Theory 3 Multibody Systems and Kinematics 4 Elasticity and Viscoelasticity 5 Plasticity 6 Theory of Materials 7 Damage and Fracture 8 Computational Solid Mechanics 9 Computational Fluid Mechanics 10 Experimental Methods and Identification 11 Gas Dynamics and Rarefield Gases 12 Viscous Flows 13 Transition and Turbulence 14 Heat and Mass Transfer, Convective Flows 15 Multiphase Flows, Flows of Reactive Fluids 16 Waves, Acoustics 17 Applied Analysis 18 Mathematical Methods of the Natural and Engineering Sciences 19 Computer Algebra and Computer Analysis 20 Applied Stochastics, Operations Research 21 Optimisation 22 Numerical Analysis 23 Applied and Numerical Linear Algebra 24 Numerical Treatment of Ordinary and Differential-Algebro Equations 25 Numerical Treatment of Partial Differential Equations     

General Tricomi-Rassias problem and oblique derivative problem for generalized Chaplygin equations

Many authors have discussed the Tricomi problem for some second order equations of mixed type, which has important applications in gas dynamics. In particular, Bers proposed the Tricomi problem for Chaplygin equations in multiply connected domains [L. Bers, Mathematical Aspects of Subsonic and Transonic Gas Dynamics, Wiley, New York, 1958]. And Rassias proposed the exterior Tricomi problem for mixed equations in a doubly connected domain and proved the uniqueness of solutions for the problem [J.M. Rassias, Lecture Notes on Mixed Type Partial Differential Equations, World Scientific, Singapore, 1990]. In the present paper, we discuss the general Tricomi-Rassias problem for generalized Chaplygin equations. This is one general oblique derivative problem that includes the exterior Tricomi problem as a special case. We first give the representation of solutions of the general Tricomi-Rassias problem, and then prove the uniqueness and existence of solutions for the problem by a new method. In this paper, we shall also discuss another general oblique derivative problem for generalized Chaplygin equations.     

Upper Semicontinuity of Morse Sets of a Discretization of a Delay-Differential Equation: An Improvement

In this paper, we consider a discrete delay problem with negative feedback x(t)=f(x(t), x(t−1)) along with a certain family of time discretizations with stepsize 1/n. In the original problem, the attractor admits a nice Morse decomposition. We proved in (T. Gedeon and G. Hines, 1999, J. Differential Equations151, 36-78) that the discretized problems have global attractors. It was proved in (T. Gedeon and K. Mischaikow, 1995, J. Dynam. Differential Equations7, 141-190) that such attractors also admit Morse decompositions. In (T. Gedeon and G. Hines, 1999, J. Differential Equations151, 36-78) we proved certain continuity results about the individual Morse sets, including that if f(x, y)=f(y), then the individual Morse sets are upper semicontinuous at n=∞. In this paper we extend this result to the general case; that is, we prove for general f(x, y) with negative feedback that the Morse sets are upper semicontinuous.     

Embedding discrete flows on R in a continuous flow

The problem of determining when a given discrete flow on a topological space is embeddable in some continuous flow was mentioned by G. R. Sell (“Topological Dynamics and Ordinary Differential Equations,” Van Nostrand, New York, 1971) in his book on topological dynamics. In this book, the theory of generalized dynamical systems is exploited in the qualitative study of differential equations. Even more complicated is the problem of simultaneously embedding two or more discrete flows in a single continuous flow. We examine both of these problems when the underlying topological space is the space R of the real numbers.     

Representation of the solution to a model problem in semiconductor physics

We study a mixed type problem for the Poisson equation arising in the modeling of charge transport in semiconductor devices [V. Romano, 2D simulation of a silicon MESFET with a non-parabolic hydrodynamical model based on the maximum entropy principle, J. Comput. Phys. 176 (2002) 70-92; A.M. Blokhin, R.S. Bushmanov, A.S. Rudometova, V. Romano, Linear asymptotic stability of the equilibrium state for the 2D MEP hydrodynamical model of charge transport in semiconductors, Nonlinear Anal. 65 (2006) 1018-1038]. Unlike well-studied elliptic boundary-value problems in domains with smooth boundaries (see, for example, [O.A. Ladyzhenskaya, N.N. Uralceva, Linear and Quasilinear Elliptic Equations, Nauka, Moscow, 1973; D. Gilbarg, N.S. Trudinger, Elliptic Partial Differential Equations of Second Order, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1983]), our problem has two significant features: firstly, the boundary is not a smooth curve and, secondly, the type of boundary conditions is mixed (the Dirichlet condition is satisfied on the one part of the boundary whereas the Neumann condition on the other part). The well-posedness of the problem in Hölder and Sobolev spaces is proved. The representation of the solution to the problem is obtained in an explicit form.     

On an optimal control problem in the Voigt model of the motion of a viscoelastic fluid

The external feedback control problem in the Voigt model of the motion of a viscoelastic fluid is investigated. To this end, we prove the existence of weak solutions of the initial-boundary problem with the multi-valued right-hand side in the model considered and show the existence of a solution minimizing a given bounded lower semicontinuous functional. __________ Translated from Sovremennaya Matematika. Fundamental’nye Napravleniya (Contemporary Mathematics. Fundamental Directions), Vol. 16, Differential and Functional Differential Equations. Part 2, 2006.     

Optimal control for 3D stochastic Navier–Stokes equations

Loeb space methods are used to prove existence of an optimal control for general 3D stochastic Navier–Stokes equations with multiplicative noise. The possible non-uniqueness of the solutions mean that it is necessary to utilize the notion of a non-standard approximate solution developed in the paper by N.J. Cutland and Keisler H.J. 2004, Global attractors for 3-dimensional stochastic Navier–Stokes equations, Journal of Dynamics and Differential Equations, pp. 16205–16266, for the study of attractors.     

Nonclassical interactions portrait in a macroscopic pedestrian flow model

In this paper we describe the main characteristics of the macroscopic model for pedestrian flows introduced in [R.M. Colombo, M.D. Rosini, Pedestrian flows and non-classical shocks, Math. Methods Appl. Sci. 28 (13) (2005) 1553-1567] and recently sperimentally verified in [D. Helbing, A. Johansson, H.Z. Al-Abideen, Dynamics of crowd disasters: An empirical study, Phys. Rev. E (Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics) 75 (4) (2007) 046109]. After a detailed study of all the possible wave interactions, we prove the existence of a weighted total variation that does not increase after any interaction. This is the main ingredient used in [R.M. Colombo, M.D. Rosini, Existence of nonclassical Cauchy problem modeling pedestrian flows, technical report, Brescia Department of Mathematics, 2008] to tackle the Cauchy problem through wave front tracking, see [A. Bressan, Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws. The One-Dimensional Cauchy Problem, Oxford Lecture Ser. Math. Appl., vol. 20, Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford, 2000, The one-dimensional Cauchy problem; A. Bressan, The front tracking method for systems of conservation laws, in: C.M. Dafermos, E. Feireisl (Eds.), Handbook of Differential Equations; Evolutionary Equations, vol. 1, Elsevier, 2004, pp. 87-168; R.M. Colombo, Wave front tracking in systems of conservation laws, Appl. Math. 49 (6) (2004) 501-537]. From the mathematical point of view, this model is one of the few examples of conservation laws in which nonclassical solutions have a physical motivation, see [P.G. Lefloch, Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws, Lectures Math. ETH Zürich, Birkhäuser, Basel, 2002, The theory of classical and nonclassical shock waves], and an existence result is available.     

A cotangent bundle slice theorem

This article concerns cotangent-lifted Lie group actions; our goal is to find local and “semi-global” normal forms for these and associated structures. Our main result is a constructive cotangent bundle slice theorem that extends the Hamiltonian slice theorem of Marle [C.-M. Marle, Modèle d'action hamiltonienne d'un groupe de Lie sur une variété symplectique, Rendiconti del Seminario Matematico, Università e Politecnico, Torino 43 (2) (1985) 227-251] and Guillemin and Sternberg [V. Guillemin, S. Sternberg, A normal form for the moment map, in: S. Sternberg (Ed.), Differential Geometric Methods in Mathematical Physics, in: Mathematical Physics Studies, vol. 6, D. Reidel, 1984]. The result applies to all proper cotangent-lifted actions, around points with fully-isotropic momentum values.We also present a “tangent-level” commuting reduction result and use it to characterise the symplectic normal space of any cotangent-lifted action. In two special cases, we arrive at splittings of the symplectic normal space. One of these cases is when the configuration isotropy group is contained in the momentum isotropy group; in this case, our splitting generalises that given for free actions by Montgomery et al. [R. Montgomery, J.E. Marsden, T.S. Ratiu, Gauged Lie-Poisson structures, Cont. Math. AMS 128 (1984) 101-114]. The other case includes all relative equilibria of simple mechanical systems. In both of these special cases, the new splitting leads to a refinement of the so-called reconstruction equations or bundle equations [J.-P. Ortega, Symmetry, reduction, and stability in Hamiltonian systems, PhD thesis, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1998; J.-P. Ortega, T.S. Ratiu, A symplectic slice theorem, Lett. Math. Phys. 59 (1) (2002) 81-93; M. Roberts, C. Wulff, J.S.W. Lamb, Hamiltonian systems near relative equilibria, J. Differential Equations 179 (2) (2002) 562-604]. We also note cotangent-bundle-specific local normal forms for symplectic reduced spaces.     

Toroidal normal forms for bifurcations in retarded functional differential equations I: Multiple Hopf and transcritical/multiple Hopf interaction

For finite-dimensional bifurcation problems, it is well known that it is possible to compute normal forms which possess nice symmetry properties. Oftentimes, these symmetries may allow for a partial decoupling of the normal form into a so-called “radial” part and an “angular” part. Analysis of the radial part usually gives an enormous amount of valuable information about the bifurcation and its unfoldings. In this paper, we are interested in the case where such bifurcations occur in retarded functional differential equations, and we revisit the realizability and restrictions problem for the class of radial equations by nonlinear delay-differential equations. Our analysis allows us to recover and considerably generalize recent results by Faria and Magalhães [T. Faria, L.T. Magalhães, Restrictions on the possible flows of scalar retarded functional differential equations in neighborhoods of singularities, J. Dynam. Differential Equations 8 (1996) 35-70] and by Buono and Bélair [P.-L. Buono, J. Bélair, Restrictions and unfolding of double Hopf bifurcation in functional differential equations, J. Differential Equations 189 (2003) 234-266].     

The existence of almost periodic solutions of certain perturbation systems

Certain almost periodic perturbation systems are considered in this paper. By using the roughness theory of exponential dichotomies and the contraction mapping principle, some sufficient conditions are obtained for the existence and uniqueness of almost periodic solution of the above systems. Our results generalize those in [J.K. Hale, Ordinary Differential Equations, Krieger, Huntington, 1980; C. He, Existence of almost periodic solutions of perturbation systems, Ann. Differential Equations 9 (1992) 173-181; M. Lin, The existence of almost periodic solution and bounded solution of perturbation systems, Acta Math. Sinica 22A (2002) 61-70 (in Chinese); W.A. Coppel, Almost periodic properties of ordinary differential equations, Ann. Math. Pura Appl. 76 (1967) 27-50; A.M. Fink, Almost Periodic Differential Equations, Lecture Notes in Math., vol. 377, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1974; Y. Xia, F. Chen, A. Chen, J. Cao, Existence and global attractivity of an almost periodic ecological model, Appl. Math. Comput. 157 (2004) 449-475].     

Effect of a protection zone in the diffusive Leslie predator-prey model

In this paper, we consider the diffusive Leslie predator-prey model with large intrinsic predator growth rate, and investigate the change of behavior of the model when a simple protection zone Ω₀ for the prey is introduced. As in earlier work [Y. Du, J. Shi, A diffusive predator-prey model with a protection zone, J. Differential Equations 229 (2006) 63-91; Y. Du, X. Liang, A diffusive competition model with a protection zone, J. Differential Equations 244 (2008) 61-86] we show the existence of a critical patch size of the protection zone, determined by the first Dirichlet eigenvalue of the Laplacian over Ω₀ and the intrinsic growth rate of the prey, so that there is fundamental change of the dynamical behavior of the model only when Ω₀ is above the critical patch size. However, our research here reveals significant difference of the model's behavior from the predator-prey model studied in [Y. Du, J. Shi, A diffusive predator-prey model with a protection zone, J. Differential Equations 229 (2006) 63-91] with the same kind of protection zone. We show that the asymptotic profile of the population distribution of the Leslie model is governed by a standard boundary blow-up problem, and classical or degenerate logistic equations.     

Homogenization of two-dimensional elasticity problems with very stiff coefficients

In this paper we study the asymptotic behaviour of a sequence of two-dimensional linear elasticity problems with equicoercive elasticity tensors. Assuming the sequence of tensors is bounded in L¹, we obtain a compactness result extending to the elasticity the div-curl approach of [M. Briane, J. Casado-Díaz, Two-dimensional div-curl results. Application to the lack of nonlocal effects in homogenization, Comm. Partial Differential Equations 32 (2007) 935-969] for the conduction. In the periodic case this compactness result is refined replacing the L¹-boundedness by a less restrictive condition involving the oscillations period. We also build a sequence of isotropic elasticity problems with L¹-unbounded Lamé's coefficients, which converges to a second gradient limit problem. This loss of compactness shows a gap in the limit behaviour between the very stiff problems of elasticity and those of conduction. Indeed, in the conduction case a compactness result was proved in [M. Briane, J. Casado-Díaz, Asymptotic behaviour of equicoercive diffusion energies in dimension two, Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations 29 (4) (2007) 455-479] without assuming any bound from above for the conductivities.