Residual symmetry,nth Bäcklund transformation,and soliton-cnoidal wave interaction solution for the combined modified KdV–negative-order modified KdV equation

This paper is concerned with the nth Bäcklund transformation (BT) related to multiple residual symmetries and soliton-cnoidal wave interaction solution for the combined modified KdV–negative-order modified KdV (mKdV-nmKdV) equation. The residual symmetry derived from the truncated Painlevé expansion can be extended to the multiple residual symmetries, which can be localized to Lie point symmetries by prolonging the combined mKdV-nmKdV equation to a larger system. The corresponding finite symmetry transformation, ie, nth BT, is presented in determinant form. As a result, new multiple singular soliton solutions can be obtained from known ones. We prove that the combined mKdV-nmKdV equation is integrable, possessing the second-order Lax pair and consistent Riccati expansion (CRE) property. Furthermore, we derive the exact soliton and soliton-cnoidal wave interaction solutions by applying the nonauto-BT obtained from the CRE method.     

Local exact controllability of the Navier–Stokes system

In this paper we deal with the local exact controllability of the Navier–Stokes system with distributed controls supported in small sets. In a first step, we present a new Carleman inequality for the linearized Navier–Stokes system, which leads to null controllability at any time T>0. Then, we deduce a local result concerning the exact controllability to the trajectories of the Navier–Stokes system.     

Analysis of the Dynamics of Slender Continua Using Karhunen-Loève-Transformation

The dynamics of continua with very small diameter–to–length ratio, like bridges or drill–strings, has been object of mechanical analysis for a long time. While it is often possible to create a well–suited mechanical model, it is difficult to determine the exact current loads and the exact operational state. For drill–strings, the load of the drill–bit depends on the material of the rock, but also on other unknown disturbances like differential sticking which can occur along the drill–string without being noticed directly. Karhunen–Loève–Transformation (KLT) provides a possibility to describe the dynamics of a continuous system with few Characteristic Functions (CF), as long as the motion of the system is stationary. On the other hand, the resulting CFs of the KLT are sensitive to changes in the dynamic system behavior. These changes can result e. g. from the occurrence of stick–slip of the bit or differential sticking of the string. On the basis of a simple model, we show that this sensitivity can be used to detect and characterize such changes. (© 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Global solution curves for a class of elliptic systems

We study curves of positive solutions for a system of elliptic equations of Hamiltonian type on a unit ball. We give conditions for all positive solutions to lie on global solution curves, allowing us to use the analysis similar to the case of one equation, as developed in P. Korman, Y. Li and T. Ouyang [An exact multiplicity result for a class of semilinear equations, Commun. PDE 22 (1997), pp. 661–684.] (see also T. Ouyang and J. Shi [Exact multiplicity of positive solutions for a class of semilinear problems, II, J. Diff. Eqns. 158(1) (1999), pp. 94–151].). As an application, we obtain some non-degeneracy and uniqueness results. For the one-dimensional case we also prove the positivity for the linearized problem, resulting in more detailed results.     

All meromorphic solutions of an ordinary differential equation and its applications

Dedicated to Professor Yuzan He on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday In this paper, we employ the complex method to obtain all meromorphic solutions of an auxiliary ordinary differential equation at first and then find out all meromorphic exact solutions of the combined KdV–mKdV equation and variant Boussinesq equations. Our result shows that all rational and simply periodic exact solutions of the combined KdV–mKdV equation and variant Boussinesq equations are solitary wave solutions, the method is more simple than other methods, and there exist some rational solutions w_r,2(z) and simply periodic solutions w_s,2(z) that are not only new but also not degenerated successively by the elliptic function solutions. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Non-self-similar solutions of multidimensional nonlinear diffusion equations

An original construction of the exact nonnegative solution of multidimensional nonlinear diffusion equations is proposed and studied. On substituting this construction into the original equation, we obtain a system of algebro-differential equations in which the number of equations exceeds the number of unknown functions. It is proved that the resulting system possesses nontrivial solutions. On the basis of this result, we construct exact non-self-similar explicit nonnegative solutions anisotropic with respect to the space variables both of the class of equations of a porous medium (nonstationary filtration) and of the class of equations involving nonlinear thermal conductivity with negative exponent. In particular, this class contains the so-called equations of rapid and limit diffusion. Translated fromMatematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 67, No. 2, pp. 250–256, February, 2000.     

A fourth‐order H1‐Galerkin mixed finite element method for Kuramoto–Sivashinsky equation

A H¹‐Galerkin mixed finite element method is applied to the Kuramoto–Sivashinsky equation by using a splitting technique, which results in a coupled system. The method described in this article may also be considered as a Petrov–Galerkin method with cubic spline space as trial space and piecewise linear space as test space, since the second derivative of a cubic spline is a linear spline. Optimal‐order error estimates are obtained without any restriction on the mesh for both semi‐discrete and fully discrete schemes. The advantage of this method over that presented in Manickam et al., Comput. Math. Appl. vol. 35(6) (1998) pp. 5–25; for the same problem is that the size (i.e., (n + 1) × (n + 1)) of each resulting linear system is less than half of the size of the linear system of the earlier method, where n is the number of subintervals in the partition. Further, there is a requirement of less regularity on exact solution in this method. The results are validated with numerical examples. Finally, instability behavior of the solution is numerically captured with this method.     

Approximation to a parabolic system modeling the thermoelastic contacts of two rods

In this article, we study a sequence of finite difference approximate solutions to a parabolic system, which models two dissimilar rods that may come into contact as a result of thermoelastic expansion. We construct the approximate solutions based on a set of finite difference schemes to the system, and we will prove that the approximate solutions converge strongly to the exact solutions. Moreover, we obtain and prove rigorously the error bound, which measures the difference between the exact solutions and approximate solutions in a reasonable norm. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq 14: 1–25, 1998     

Well‐posedness and asymptotic analysis for a Penrose–Fife type phase field system

In this paper, an asymptotic analysis of the (non‐conserved) Penrose–Fife phase field system for two vanishing time relaxation parameters ε and δ is developed, in analogy with the similar analyses for the phase field model proposed by G. Caginalp (Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 1986; 92 :205–245), which were carried out by Rossi and Stoth (Adv. Math. Sci. Appl. 2003; 13 :249–271; Quart. Appl. Math. 1995; 53 :695–700). Although formally the singular limits for ε ↓ 0 and for ε and δ ↓ 0 are, respectively, the viscous Cahn–Hilliard equation and the Cahn–Hilliard equation, it turns out that the Penrose–Fife system is indeed a bad approximation for these equations. Therefore, we consider an alternative approximating phase field system, which could be viewed as a generalization of the classical Penrose–Fife phase field system, featuring a double non‐linearity given by two maximal monotone graphs. A well‐posedness result is proved for such a system, and it is shown that the solutions converge to the unique solution of the viscous Cahn–Hilliard equation as ε ↓ 0, and of the Cahn–Hilliard equation as ε ↓ 0 and δ ↓ 0. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A Super Camassa–Holm Equation with N‐Peakon Solutions

A super Camassa–Holm equation with peakon solutions is proposed, which is associated with a 3 × 3 matrix spectral problem with two potentials. With the aid of the zero‐curvature equation, we derive a hierarchy of super Harry Dym type equations and establish their Hamiltonian structures. It is shown that the super Camassa–Holm equation is exactly a negative flow in the hierarchy and admits exact solutions with N peakons. As an example, exact 1‐peakon solutions of the super Camassa–Holm equation are given. Infinitely many conserved quantities of the super Camassa–Holm equation and the super Harry Dym type equation are, respectively, obtained.     

Exact likelihood inference based on Type-I and Type-II hybrid censored samples from the exponential distribution

Chen and Bhattacharyya (1988,Comm. Statist. Theory Methods,17, 1857–1870) derived the exact distribution of the maximum likelihood estimator of the mean of an exponential distribution and an exact lower confidence bound for the mean based on a hybrid censored sample. In this paper, an alternative simple form for the distribution is obtained and is shown to be equivalent to that of Chen and Bhattacharyya (1988). Noting that this scheme, which would guarantee the experiment to terminate by a fixed timeT, may result in few failures, we propose a new hybrid censoring scheme which guarantees at least a fixed number of failures in a life testing experiment. The exact distribution of the MLE as well as an exact lower confidence bound for the mean is also obtained for this case. Finally, three examples are presented to illustrate all the results developed here.     

Exact controllability of a semilinear thermoelastic system with control and nonlinearity in thermal component only

A result concerning the exact controllability of semilinear thermoelastic system, in which the control and nonlinear term occurs solely in the thermal equation, is derived under the influence of rotational inertia and Lipschitz nonlinearity, subject to the clamped/Dirichlet boundary conditions. In the proof we make use the result given by Avalos G. [Differential and Integral Equations, 13 (2000), 613-630] which states that the corresponding linear system is exact controllable. (© 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Non‐homogeneous Navier–Stokes systems with order‐parameter‐dependent stresses

We consider the Navier–Stokes system with variable density and variable viscosity coupled to a transport equation for an order‐parameter c. Moreover, an extra stress depending on c and ?c, which describes surface tension like effects, is included in the Navier–Stokes system. Such a system arises, e.g. for certain models of granular flows and as a diffuse interface model for a two‐phase flow of viscous incompressible fluids. The so‐called density‐dependent Navier–Stokes system is also a special case of our system. We prove short‐time existence of strong solution in L^q‐Sobolev spaces with q>d. We consider the case of a bounded domain and an asymptotically flat layer with a combination of a Dirichlet boundary condition and a free surface boundary condition. The result is based on a maximal regularity result for the linearized system. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

On a Theorem of Van de Ven

A result by Van de Ven characterizes linear subspaces as the only closed submanifolds X ? ? ^N for which the normal bundle exact sequence splits. We show that X is linear assuming only the splitting of the same exact sequence when restricted to some curve contained in X .     

A new class of generalized f-projected dynamical system in Banach spaces

In this article, a new class of generalized f-projected dynamical systems is introduced and studied in Banach spaces. A global existence and uniqueness result of generalized f-projected dynamical system is proved, which generalizes the existence result of Xia and Vincent [Y.S. Xia and T.L. Vincent, On the stability of global projected dynamical systems, J. Optim. Theory Appl. 106 (2009), pp. 129–150]. The global convergence stability of the generalized f-projected dynamical system and the sensitivity result of solutions set with perturbations of the constraint sets are also obtained under some suitable conditions.     

Graded mesh refinement and error estimates of higher order for DGFE solutions of elliptic boundary value problems in polygons

Error estimates for DGFE solutions are well investigated if one assumes that the exact solution is sufficiently regular. In this article, we consider a Dirichlet and a mixed boundary value problem for a linear elliptic equation in a polygon. It is well known that the first derivatives of the solutions develop singularities near reentrant corner points or points where the boundary conditions change. On the basis of the regularity results formulated in Sobolev–Slobodetskii spaces and weighted spaces of Kondratiev type, we prove error estimates of higher order for DGFE solutions using a suitable graded mesh refinement near boundary singular points. The main tools are as follows: regularity investigation for the exact solution relying on general results for elliptic boundary value problems, error analysis for the interpolation in Sobolev–Slobodetskii spaces, and error estimates for DGFE solutions on special graded refined meshes combined with estimates in weighted Sobolev spaces. Our main result is that there exist a local grading of the mesh and a piecewise interpolation by polynoms of higher degree such that we will get the same order O (h^α) of approximation as in the smooth case. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Mehods Partial Differential Eq, 2012     

Coupled systems of nonlinear wave equations and finite-dimensional lie algebras II: A nonlinear system arising from the group G 6.1 and its exact integration

In the first paper of this series a correspondence was established between coupled systems of two-dimensional nonlinear wave equations and the six-dimensional simply transitive Lie algebras. In the present paper we make use of this result to construct a Darboux integrable and exactly integrable nonlinear system associated with the six-parameter nilpotent Lie group G _6,1 and we give its exact general solution in terms of four arbitrary functions. The procedure is shown to be an exact linearization of the nonlinear problem.     

The Equilibrium Behavior of Reversible Coagulation-Fragmentation Processes

The coagulation-fragmentation process models the stochastic evolution of a population of N particles distributed into groups of different sizes that coagulate and fragment at given rates. The process arises in a variety of contexts and has been intensively studied for a long time. As a result, different approximations to the model were suggested. Our paper deals with the exact model which is viewed as a time-homogeneous interacting particle system on the state space _N, the set of all partitions of N. We obtain the stationary distribution (invariant measure) on _N for the whole class of reversible coagulation-fragmentation processes, and derive explicit expressions for important functionals of this measure, in particular, the expected numbers of groups of all sizes at the steady state. We also establish a characterization of the transition rates that guarantee the reversibility of the process. Finally, we make a comparative study of our exact solution and the approximation given by the steady-state solution of the coagulation-fragmentation integral equation, which is known in the literature. We show that in some cases the latter approximation can considerably deviate from the exact solution.     

Global well-posedness and scattering for a nonlinear Klein–Gordon system in low dimensions

This article investigates the global well-posedness and the scattering for a nonlinear Klein–Gordon system in spatial dimensions 1 and 2. We establish a Morawetz estimate for this system which is similar to the Morawetz estimate established by Nakanishi [K. Nakanishi, Energy scattering for nonlinear Klein–Gordon and Schrödinger equations in spatial dimensions 1 and 2, J. Funct. Anal. 169(1), pp. 201–225], combining this Morawetz estimate with the induction on energy argument developed by Bourgain [J. Bourgain, Global well-posedness of defocusing 3D critical NLS in the radial case, J. Am. Math. Soc. 12 (1999), pp. 145–171], the bound of a certain space-time norm and scattering result are obtained.     

Exact controllability for Bresse system with variable coefficients

This paper is concerned with the internal exact controllability of a generalized Bresse system with variable coefficients, which the controls functions acts in an arbitrarily small subinterval (l₁,l₂) of (0,L). Our computation suggests a minimal time control and a region where the controls are more effective. The variable coefficients can be viewed as a generalization of Laplacian operator. The main result is obtained by applying Hilbert Uniqueness Method proposed by Lions, without using the Holmgren's uniqueness theorem or the hypothesis of equal‐speed waves of propagation. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.