Stability for Parabolic Quasiminimizers

This paper studies parabolic quasiminimizers which are solutions to parabolic variational inequalities. We show that, under a suitable regularity condition on the boundary, parabolic Q-quasiminimizers related to the parabolic p-Laplace equations with given boundary values are stable with respect to parameters Q and p. The argument is based on variational techniques, higher integrability results and regularity estimates in time. This shows that stability does not only hold for parabolic partial differential equations but it also holds for variational inequalities.     

Simulation of coupled machine components on long time scales

The accuracy requirements in recent mass production processes demand new compensation techniques and structures of tool machines. To achieve these requirements, one has to know the thermo-elastic behavior and interaction of the coupled components during the design phase. We discretize the machine components using finite elements. The heat exchange of the components couples the temperature fields, which leads to additional constraints on parallel FEM. The discretization in space leads to a system of coupled ODEs, which are of stiff parabolic type with fast time-varying source terms. We concentrate on numerical methods to solve those equations on large timescales and reduce the timestep restriction to the fast coupling. This includes averaging techniques, as well as parallel in time methods. (© 2015 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Hölder Continuity to Hamilton-Jacobi Equations with Superquadratic Growth in the Gradient and Unbounded Right-hand Side

We show that solutions of time-dependent degenerate parabolic equations with super-quadratic growth in the gradient variable and possibly unbounded right-hand side are locally 𝒞^{0, α}. Unlike the existing (and more involved) proofs for equations with bounded right-hand side, our arguments rely on constructions of sub- and supersolutions combined with improvement of oscillation techniques.     

A new estimate for the Ginzburg-Landau approximation on the real axis

Summary Modulation equations play an essential role in the understanding of complicated systems near the threshold of instability. For scalar parabolic equations for which instability occurs at nonzero wavelength, we show that the associated Ginzburg-Landau equation dominates the dynamics of the nonlinear problem locally, at least over a long timescale. We develop a method which is simpler than previous ones and allows initial conditions of lower regularity. It involves a careful handling of the critical modes in the Fourier-transformed problem and an estimate of Gronwall's type. As an example, we treat the Kuramoto-Shivashinsky equation. Moreover, the method enables us to handle vector-valued problems [see G. Schneider (1992)].     

Fractal dimension of a random invariant set

In recent years many deterministic parabolic equations have been shown to possess global attractors which, despite being subsets of an infinite-dimensional phase space, are finite-dimensional objects. Debussche showed how to generalize the deterministic theory to show that the random attractors of the corresponding stochastic equations have finite Hausdorff dimension. However, to deduce a parametrization of a ‘finite-dimensional’ set by a finite number of coordinates a bound on the fractal (upper box-counting) dimension is required. There are non-trivial problems in extending Debussche's techniques to this case, which can be overcome by careful use of the Poincaré recurrence theorem. We prove that under the same conditions as in Debussche's paper and an additional concavity assumption, the fractal dimension enjoys the same bound as the Hausdorff dimension. We apply our theorem to the 2d Navier–Stokes equations with additive noise, and give two results that allow different long-time states to be distinguished by a finite number of observations.     

The Fredholm alternative for parabolic evolution equations with inhomogeneous boundary conditions

We study the Fredholm properties of parabolic evolution equations on R with inhomogeneous boundary values. These problems are transformed into evolution equations with inhomogeneities taking values in certain extrapolation spaces. Assuming that the underlying homogeneous problem is asymptotically hyperbolic, we show the Fredholm alternative for these equations. The results are applied to parabolic partial differential equations.     

Ibragimov-type invariants for a system of two linear parabolic equations

We obtain new semi-invariants for a system of two linear parabolic type partial differential equations (PDEs) in two independent variables under equivalence transformations of the dependent variables only. This is achieved for a class of systems of two linear parabolic type PDEs that correspond to a scalar complex linear (1 + 1) parabolic equation. The complex transformations of the dependent variables which map the complex scalar linear parabolic PDE to itself provide us with real transformations that map the corresponding system of linear parabolic type PDEs to itself with different coefficients in general. The semi-invariants deduced for this class of systems of two linear parabolic type equations correspond to the complex Ibragimov invariants of the complex scalar linear parabolic equation. We also look at particular cases of the system of parabolic type equations when they are uncoupled or coupled in a special manner. Moreover, we address the inverse problem of when systems of linear parabolic type equations arise from analytic continuation of a scalar linear parabolic PDE. Examples are given to illustrate the method implemented.     

Application of LQR techniques to the adaptive control of quasilinear parabolic PDEs

LQR problems for linear parabolic PDEs have been studied in detail in the literature for the past 3 to 4 decades. The solvability of feedback control problems for a large class of problems is well understood. In recent years numerical methods for the approximation of the corresponding Riccati operators have been developed. These methods are able to calculate the feedback operator directly and thus can compute the solutions to linear problems efficiently. Here we study the applicability of such techniques to the control of quasilinear equations via local linearization in an adaptive control setting. (© 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Multiple shooting methods for parabolic optimal control problems with control constraints

In the context of ordinary differential equations, shooting techniques are a state-of-the-art solver component, whereas their application in the framework of partial differential equations (PDE) is still at an early stage. We present two multiple shooting approaches for optimal control problems (OCP) governed by parabolic PDE. Direct and indirect shooting for PDE optimal control stem from the same extended problem formulation. Our approach reveals that they are structurally similar but show major differences in their algorithmic realizations. In the presented numerical examples we cover a nonlinear parabolic optimal control problem with additional control constraints. (© 2015 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Recent Progress in the $L_p$ Theory for Elliptic and Parabolic Equations with Discontinuous Coefficients

In this paper, we review some results over the last 10-15 years on elliptic and parabolic equations with discontinuous coefficients. We begin with an approach given by N. V. Krylov to parabolic equations in the whole space with $\rm{VMO}_x$ coefficients. We then discuss some subsequent development including elliptic and parabolic equations with coefficients which are allowed to be merely measurable in one or two space directions, weighted $L_p$estimates with Muckenhoupt ($A_p$) weights, non-local elliptic and parabolic equations, as well as fully nonlinear elliptic and parabolic equations.     

Existence of Global and Periodic Solutions for Delay Equation with Quasilinear Perturbation

Delay parabolic problems have been studied by many authors. Some authors investigated more general delay problem (refer to [1], [2]), some investigated concrete delay partial differential equations. Recently, we have done some work on delay parabolic problem. We discussed semilinear parabolic delay problem and obtained some results on the existence of solutions. In particular the results on existence of periodic solutions are characteristic (see [3], [4], [5], [6]). The purpose of this paper is to study delay equation with quasilinear perturbation. We present the existence of global and periodic solutions of abstract evolution equations in Section 2. The abstract results are used to obtain the existence of global and periodic solutions of delay parabolic problem with quasilinear perturbation in Section 3. We make preparation for our investigation and give a generalization of Gronwall inequality (Lemma 1.3) which is used in next section.     

Nonlinear stability of spatially-periodic traveling-wave solutions of systems of reaction-diffusion equations

Using spatial domain techniques developed by the authors and Myunghyun Oh in the context of parabolic conservation laws, we establish under a natural set of spectral stability conditions nonlinear asymptotic stability with decay at Gaussian rate of spatially periodic traveling waves of systems of reaction-diffusion equations. In the case that wave-speed is identically zero for all periodic solutions, we recover and slightly sharpen a well-known result of Schneider obtained by renormalization/Bloch transform techniques; by the same arguments, we are able to treat the open case of nonzero wave-speeds to which Schneider?s renormalization techniques do not appear to apply.     

Quasi-Linear Equations with a Small Diffusion Term and the Evolution of Hierarchies of Cycles

We study the long-time behavior (at times of order \(\exp (\lambda /\varepsilon ^2\))) of solutions to quasi-linear parabolic equations with a small parameter \(\varepsilon ^2\) at the diffusion term. The solution to a PDE can be expressed in terms of diffusion processes, whose coefficients, in turn, depend on the unknown solution. The notion of a hierarchy of cycles for diffusion processes was introduced by Freidlin and Wentzell and applied to the study of the corresponding linear equations. In the quasi-linear case, it is not a single hierarchy that corresponds to an equation, but rather a family of hierarchies that depend on the timescale \(\lambda \). We describe the evolution of the hierarchies with respect to \(\lambda \) in order to gain information on the limiting behavior of the solution of the PDE.     

Error analysis of finite element approximation of a stefan problem with nonlinear free boundary condition

By applying the Landau-type transformation, we transform a Stefan problem with nonlinear free boundary condition into a system consisting of a parabolic equation and the ordinary differential equations. Fully discrete finite element method is developed to approximate the solution of a system of a parabolic equation and the ordinary differential equations. We derive optimal orders of convergence of fully discrete approximations inL2, H¹ and H² normed spaces.     

Existence and uniqueness for a nonlinear parabolic/Hamilton–Jacobi coupled system describing the dynamics of dislocation densities

We study a mathematical model describing the dynamics of dislocation densities in crystals. This model is expressed as a 1D system of a parabolic equation and a first order Hamilton–Jacobi equation that are coupled together. We examine an associated Dirichlet boundary value problem. We prove the existence and uniqueness of a viscosity solution among those assuming a lower-bound on their gradient for all time including the initial time. Moreover, we show the existence of a viscosity solution when we have no such restriction on the initial data. We also state a result of existence and uniqueness of entropy solution for the initial value problem of the system obtained by spatial derivation. The uniqueness of this entropy solution holds in the class of bounded-from-below solutions. In order to prove our results on the bounded domain, we use an “extension and restriction” method, and we exploit a relation between scalar conservation laws and Hamilton–Jacobi equations, mainly to get our gradient estimates.     

On quasilinear parabolic evolution equations in weighted L p -spaces

In this paper we develop a geometric theory for quasilinear parabolic problems in weighted L _p -spaces. We prove existence and uniqueness of solutions as well as the continuous dependence on the initial data. Moreover, we make use of a regularization effect for quasilinear parabolic equations to study the ω-limit sets and the long-time behaviour of the solutions. These techniques are applied to a free boundary value problem. The results in this paper are mainly based on maximal regularity tools in (weighted) L _p -spaces.     

Stability and error analysis on partially implicit schemes

Subdomain techniques have been widely used for solving elliptic and parabolic equations. For parabolic problems, it is possible to combine subdomain techniques with explicit methods to construct efficient algorithms. In addition, this kind of algorithms is naturally suitable for parallel computing. However, the stability of such schemes has been considered as a very difficult issue. In this article, we use an exact error propagation and discrete scheme smoothing approach to give a posteriori stability and error analysis. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq, 2005     

Cascading Multilevel Finite-Element Analysis for Local and Nonlocal Parabolic Problems

In this article, several cascading multilevel finite-element algorithms are considered to discretize nonlinear parabolic problems, of which the nonlinearity has either local or nonlocal form. Algorithm I solves only a stationary linear system of equations at each level of P1 finite element spaces, while Algorithm II works on the coupling of a stationary linear system of equations with a linear parabolic equation. The convergence orders of Algorithms I and II are both O(h _J ) in the energy norm; in Algorithm I the estimation depends on the number of grids, while Algorithm II does not. Algorithm III is based on Picard linearization techniques and Algorithm IV on Newton iteration. Both algorithms have convergence order—O(h _J ).     

Stability of nonlinear stochastic-evolution equations

Criteria for boundedness, asymptotic stability of sample paths given by solutions to nonlinear stochastic-evolution equations are presented. The analysis is based on a functional Itô formula, Liapunov and related functionals, and generalization of methods developed in finite dimensions. Applications to parabolic Itô equations are given.