The iterative solutions of 2nth-order nonlinear multi-point boundary value problems

The aim of this paper is to investigate the existence of iterative solutions for a class of 2nth-order nonlinear multi-point boundary value problems. The multi-point boundary condition under consideration includes various commonly discussed boundary conditions, such as three- or four-point boundary condition, (n + 2)-point boundary condition and 2(n − m)-point boundary condition. The existence problem is based on the method of upper and lower solutions and its associated monotone iterative technique. A monotone iteration is developed so that the iterative sequence converges monotonically to a maximal solution or a minimal solution, depending on whether the initial iteration is an upper solution or a lower solution. Two examples are presented to illustrate the results.     

Positive solutions of quasilinear parabolic systems with nonlinear boundary conditions

The aim of this paper is to investigate the existence, uniqueness, and asymptotic behavior of solutions for a coupled system of quasilinear parabolic equations under nonlinear boundary conditions, including a system of quasilinear parabolic and ordinary differential equations. Also investigated is the existence of positive maximal and minimal solutions of the corresponding quasilinear elliptic system as well as the uniqueness of a positive steady-state solution. The elliptic operators in both systems are allowed to be degenerate in the sense that the density-dependent diffusion coefficients Di(ui) may have the property Di(0)=0 for some or all i. Our approach to the problem is by the method of upper and lower solutions and its associated monotone iterations. It is shown that the time-dependent solution converges to the maximal solution for one class of initial functions and it converges to the minimal solution for another class of initial functions; and if the maximal and minimal solutions coincide then the steady-state solution is unique and the time-dependent solution converges to the unique solution. Applications of these results are given to three model problems, including a porous medium type of problem, a heat-transfer problem, and a two-component competition model in ecology. These applications illustrate some very interesting distinctive behavior of the time-dependent solutions between density-independent and density-dependent diffusions.     

Boundary value problem for first order impulsive functional integro-differential equations

This paper investigates extremal solutions of the boundary value problem for impulsive functional integro-differential equations with nonlinear boundary conditions and deviating arguments. In the presence of a lower solution u and an upper solution v with u≥v, existence of extremal solutions is proved by establishing a new comparison principle and using the monotone iterative technique.     

On monotone method for first and second order periodic boundary value problems and periodic solutions of functional differential equations

In this paper, we show that the method of monotone iterative technique is valid to obtain two monotone sequences that converge uniformly to extremal solutions of first and second order periodic boundary value problems and periodic solutions of functional differential equations. We obtain some new results relative to the lower solution α and upper solution β with α?β.     

Higher-order Lidstone boundary value problems for elliptic partial differential equations

The aim of this paper is to show the existence and uniqueness of a solution for a class of 2nth-order elliptic Lidstone boundary value problems where the nonlinear functions depend on the higher-order derivatives. Sufficient conditions are given for the existence and uniqueness of a solution. It is also shown that there exist two sequences which converge monotonically from above and below, respectively, to the unique solution. The approach to the problem is by the method of upper and lower solutions together with monotone iterative technique for nonquasimonotone functions. All the results are directly applicable to 2nth-order two-point Lidstone boundary value problems.     

Generalized quasilinearization method for reaction-diffusion equations under nonlinear and nonlocal flux conditions

In this paper we consider an initial boundary value problem for a reaction-diffusion equation under nonlinear and nonlocal Robin type boundary condition. Assuming the existence of an ordered pair of upper and lower solutions we establish a generalized quasilinearization method for the problem under consideration whose characteristic feature consists in the construction of monotone sequences converging to the unique solution within the interval of upper and lower solutions, and whose convergence rate is quadratic. Thus this method provides an efficient iteration technique that produces not only improved approximations due to the monotonicity of its iterates, but yields also a measure of the convergence rate.     

A block monotone iterative method for numerical solutions of nonlinear elliptic boundary value problems

The aim of this article is to develop a new block monotone iterative method for the numerical solutions of a nonlinear elliptic boundary value problem. The boundary value problem is discretized into a system of nonlinear algebraic equations, and a block monotone iterative method is established for the system using an upper solution or a lower solution as the initial iteration. The sequence of iterations can be computed in a parallel fashion and converge monotonically to a maximal solution or a minimal solution of the system. Three theoretical comparison results are given for the sequences from the proposed method and the block Jacobi monotone iterative method. The comparison results show that the sequence from the proposed method converges faster than the corresponding sequence given by the block Jacobi monotone iterative method. A simple and easily verified condition is obtained to guarantee a geometric convergence of the block monotone iterations. The numerical results demonstrate advantages of this new approach. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq, 2011     

Green's functions for elliptic and parabolic systems with Robin-type boundary conditions

The aim of this paper is to investigate Green's function for parabolic and elliptic systems satisfying a possibly nonlocal Robin-type boundary condition. We construct Green's function for parabolic systems with time-dependent coefficients satisfying a possibly nonlocal Robin-type boundary condition assuming that weak solutions of the system are locally Hölder continuous in the interior of the domain, and as a corollary we construct Green's function for elliptic system with a Robin-type condition. Also, we obtain Gaussian bound for Robin Green's function under an additional assumption that weak solutions of Robin problem are locally bounded up to the boundary. We provide some examples satisfying such a local boundedness property, and thus have Gaussian bounds for their Green's functions.     

On a nonlocal problem for nonlinear pseudoparabolic equations

For a nonlinear pseudoparabolic equation with one space dimension we consider its initial boundary value problem on an interval. The boundary condition on the left end is of Dirichlet type, the right end condition is replaced by a nonlocal one. Because it is given by an integral, the function involved could exhibit singularities, which distinguishes this nonlocal condition from its Dirichlet counterpart. Based on an elliptic estimate and an iteration method we established the well-posedness of solutions in a weighted Sobolev space.     

Numerical methods for fourth‐order nonlinear elliptic boundary value problems

The aim of this article is to present several computational algorithms for numerical solutions of a nonlinear finite difference system that represents a finite difference approximation of a class of fourth‐order elliptic boundary value problems. The numerical algorithms are based on the method of upper and lower solutions and its associated monotone iterations. Three linear monotone iterative schemes are given, and each iterative scheme yields two sequences, which converge monotonically from above and below, respectively, to a maximal solution and a minimal solution of the finite difference system. This monotone convergence property leads to upper and lower bounds of the solution in each iteration as well as an existence‐comparison theorem for the finite difference system. Sufficient conditions for the uniqueness of the solution and some techniques for the construction of upper and lower solutions are obtained, and numerical results for a two‐point boundary‐value problem with known analytical solution are given. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq 17:347–368, 2001     

On well‐posedness of nonclassical problems for elliptic equations

In the present paper, we consider nonclassical problems for multidimensional elliptic equations. A finite difference method for solving these nonlocal boundary value problems is presented. Stability, almost coercive stability and coercive stability for the solutions of first and second orders of approximation are obtained. The theoretical statements for the solutions of these difference schemes are supported by numerical examples for the two‐dimensional elliptic equations. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Error estimates for the finite element approximation of linear elastic equations in an unbounded domain

In this paper we present error estimates for the finite element approximation of linear elastic equations in an unbounded domain. The finite element approximation is formulated on a bounded computational domain using a nonlocal approximate artificial boundary condition or a local one. In fact there are a family of nonlocal approximate boundary conditions with increasing accuracy (and computational cost) and a family of local ones for a given artificial boundary. Our error estimates show how the errors of the finite element approximations depend on the mesh size, the terms used in the approximate artificial boundary condition, and the location of the artificial boundary. A numerical example for Navier equations outside a circle in the plane is presented. Numerical results demonstrate the performance of our error estimates.

     

Exact solutions of a class of second-order nonlocal boundary value problems and applications

In this paper, solutions of a class of second-order differential equations with some multi-point boundary conditions are studied. We give exact expressions of the solutions for the linear m-point boundary problems by the Green’s functions. As applications, we study uniqueness and iteration of the positive solutions for a nonlinear singular second-order m-point boundary value problem.     

求解带非线性边界条件的反应扩散方程数值解的组合迭代方法

1　引　　言我们首先考虑如下抛物型方程ｕｔ-ＤΔｕ =ｆ(ｘ ,ｔ ,ｕ) (ｔ∈ ( 0 ,Ｔ],ｘ∈Ω ) ｕ/ ν+ βｕ =ｇ(ｘ ,ｔ ,ｕ) (ｔ∈ ( 0 ,Ｔ],ｘ∈ Ω )ｕ(ｘ ,0 ) =ψ(ｘ) (ｘ∈Ω )( 1 .1 )其中Ｔ为正常数 ,Ω 是ＲＰ 空间的有界区域 记ＱＴ=Ω × ( 0 ,Ｔ],ＳＴ= Ω × ( 0 ,Ｔ],假设在ＱＴ上Ｄ≡ｄ(ｘ ,ｔ) >0 ,在ＳＴ 上β≡β(ｘ ,ｔ)≥ 0 又设 ｆ(ｘ ,ｔ,ｕ) ,ｇ(ｘ ,ｔ,ｕ)为关于ｕ的非线性函数 ,且对ｘ ,ｔ各参数满足Ｈ¨ｏｌｄｅｒ连续条件 将 ( 1 .1 )离散化之后我们得到相应的有限差分系统 ,当 ｇ(ｘ ,ｔ,ｕ)为ｕ的线性…     

带非线性边界条件的反应扩散方程的数值方法

１引言近年来关于非线性抛物型方程数值解法的研究取得了许多好的结果,其中以Ｃ．Ｖ．Ｐａｏ为主的研究者们利用上、下解方法对带线性边界条件的半线性抛物型方程的有限差分系统进行了广泛的研究,提出了一系列有效的迭代算法（见［１］、［２］、［３］、［４］）．但对带非线性边界条件的半线性抛物型方程初边值问题,作者至今尚未见到有研究者将上、下解方法用在相应的差分系统上,求得数值解．其主要原因是由于边界上函数的非线性,解在边界网格点上的值未知且无法用内部网格点上的值直接表示,相应的差分系统表示形式受到影响,边界网…     

二阶微分方程反周期边值问题解的存在性

在这篇文章中,我们考虑了一类非线性二阶常微分方程反周期边值问题．利用上下解方法结合单调迭代技巧,我们得到了解的存在性结果．     

二阶脉冲泛函微分方程非线性边值问题

通过上下解和单调迭代技术讨论了二阶脉冲泛函微分方程非线性边值问题极值解的存在性,推广了相关文献的结果.     

ON A SEMILINEAR MRABOLIC EQUATION SYSTEM WITH NONLOCAL AND COUPLED BOUNDARY CONDITIONS

1IntroductionInthestudyofquasi-statethermoelasticity,Deng[1-2]derivedamathemati-calmodelwhichinvolvesalinearparabolicequationwithanonlocalboundarycondition.Thismodelhasbeenextendedtomoregeneralsemilinearparabo-licequationsinhigh-dimensiondomainsbyFriedman[5]andKawohlI6],andmorerecentlybyDeng[3],Yin[13],Paol8-lo]andWang[11],andvariouscomparison,estimateandstabilityresultshavebeenobtained.InhtispaperweextendtheproblemofPao[9]tothefollowingproblemwithmoregeneralcoupledboundaryconditions(PE):w…     

On fourth-order elliptic boundary value problems

This paper is concerned with the existence and uniqueness of a solution for a class of fourth-order elliptic boundary value problems. The existence of a solution is proven by the method of upper and lower solutions without any monotone nondecreasing or nonincreasing property of the nonlinear function. Sufficient conditions for the uniqueness of a solution and some techniques for the construction of upper and lower solutions are given. All the existence and uniqueness results are directly applicable to fourth-order two-point boundary value problems.

     

On a class of parabolic equations with nonlocal boundary conditions

In this paper we study a class of parabolic equations subject to a nonlocal boundary condition. The problem is a generalized model for a theory of ion-diffusion in channels. By using energy method, we first derive some a priori estimates for solutions and then prove that the problem has a unique global solution. Moreover, under some assumptions on the nonlinear boundary condition, it is shown that the solution blows up in finite time. Finally, the long-time behavior of solution to a linear problem is also studied in the paper.