Entropy and renormalized solutions to the general nonlinear elliptic equations in Musielak–Orlicz spaces

In this paper we mainly prove the existence and uniqueness of entropy solutions and the uniqueness of renormalized solutions to the general nonlinear elliptic equations in Musielak-Orlicz spaces. Moreover, we also obtain the equivalence of entropy solutions and renormalized solutions in the present conditions.     

Strongly nonlinear elliptic boundary value problems in Musielak–Orlicz spaces

Monatshefte für Mathematik - In this paper we prove an existence result of solutions for some strongly nonlinear elliptic problems with lower order term and $$L^1$$ -data in...     

Existence and qualitative properties of solutions to a quasilinear elliptic equation involving the Hardy–Leray potential

In this work we deal with the existence and qualitative properties of the solutions to a supercritical problem involving the −_Δp(⋅)$-{\mathrm{\Delta }}_p(\cdot )$ operator and the Hardy–Leray potential. Assuming 0∈Ω$0\in \Omega$, we study the regularizing effect due to the addition of a first order nonlinear term, which provides the existence of solutions with a breaking of resonance. Once we have proved the existence of a solution, we study the qualitative properties of the solutions such as regularity, monotonicity and symmetry.     

Existence of multiple solutions for quasilinear elliptic equation with critical Sobolev–Hardy terms

The main purpose of this paper is to establish the existence of multiple solutions for quasilinear elliptic equation with Robin boundary condition involving the critical Sobolev–Hardy exponents. It is shown, by means of variational methods, that under certain conditions, the existence of nontrivial solutions are obtained. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Solutions for a quasilinear elliptic equation in Musielak–Sobolev spaces

Critical point theory is used to show the existence of weak solutions to a quasilinear elliptic differential equation under the functional framework of the Musielak–Sobolev spaces in a bounded smooth domain with Dirichlet boundary condition.     

Existence of weak solutions of the g-Kelvin–Voight equation

The 2D $g$-Navier–Stokes equations have the form $\frac{?u}{?t}?\nu \Delta u+u.?u+?p=f\text{in }\Omega$ with the continuity equation $?.\left(gu\right)=0\text{in }\Omega$ in a bounded domain $\Omega ?{\mathbb{R}}^2$ where $g=g\left(x_{1,}{x}_2\right)$ is a smooth real valued function defined on $\Omega$. We use the method described by Roh [J. Roh, $g$-Navier Stokes equations, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Minnesota, 2001] for the derivation of $g$-Kelvin–Voight equations represented by $\frac{?u}{?t}?\nu {\Delta }_{g}u+\frac{\nu }{g}(?g??)u?\alpha {\Delta }_g{u}_t+\frac{\alpha }{g}(?g??)u_t+u??u+?p=f\left(x\right)\text{ in }\Omega$$?.\left(gu\right)=0\text{in }\Omega$ We discuss the existence and uniqueness of weak solutions of $g$-Kelvin–Voight equations by the use of the well known Feado–Galerkin method.     

Existence and non-existence of solutions to elliptic equations related to the Caffarelli–Kohn–Nirenberg inequalities

We investigate elliptic equations related to the Caffarelli–Kohn–Nirenberg inequalities: and such that . For various parameters α, β and various domains Ω, we establish some existence and non-existence results of solutions in rather general, possibly degenerate or singular settings.     

Trend to equilibrium of renormalized solutions to reaction–cross-diffusion systems

The convergence to equilibrium of renormalized solutions to reaction–cross-diffusion systems in a bounded domain under no-flux boundary conditions is studied. The reactions model complex balanced chemical reaction networks coming from mass-action kinetics and thus do not obey any growth condition, while the diffusion matrix is of cross-diffusion type and hence nondiagonal and neither symmetric nor positive semi-definite, but the system admits a formal gradient-flow or entropy structure. The diffusion term generalizes the population model of Shigesada, Kawasaki and Teramoto to an arbitrary number of species. By showing that any renormalized solution satisfies the conservation of masses and a weak entropy–entropyproduction inequality, it can be proved under the assumption of no boundary equilibria that all renormalized solutions converge exponentially to the complex balanced equilibrium with a rate which is explicit up to a finite dimensional inequality.     

The space of 4-ended solutions to the Allen–Cahn equation in the plane

We are interested in entire solutions of the Allen–Cahn equation Δu−F^′(u)=0$\mathrm{\Delta }u-F^{\prime }(u)=0$ which have some special structure at infinity. In this equation, the function F is an even, double well potential. The solutions we are interested in have their zero set asymptotic to 4 half oriented affine lines at infinity and, along each of these half affine lines, the solutions are asymptotic to the one dimensional heteroclinic solution: such solutions are called 4-ended solutions  . The main result of our paper states that, for any θ∈(0,π/2)$\theta \in (0,\pi /2)$, there exists a 4-ended solution of the Allen–Cahn equation whose zero set is at infinity asymptotic to the half oriented affine lines making the angles θ  , π−θ$\pi -\theta$, π+θ$\pi +\theta$ and 2π−θ$2\pi -\theta$ with the x-axis. This paper is part of a program whose aim is to classify all 2k  -ended solutions of the Allen–Cahn equation in dimension 2, for k?2$k?2$.     

Convergence of approximate solutions to an elliptic–parabolic equation without the structure condition

We study the Cauchy–Dirichlet problem for the elliptic–parabolic equation $$b(u)_t + {\rm div} F(u) - \Delta u = f$$ in a bounded domain. We do not assume the structure condition $$b(z) = b(\hat z) \Rightarrow F(z) = F(\hat z).$$ Our main goal is to investigate the problem of continuous dependence of the solutions on the data of the problem and the question of convergence of discretization methods. As in the work of Ammar and Wittbold (Proc R Soc Edinb 133A(3):477–496, 2003) where existence was established, monotonicity and penalization are the main tools of our study. In the case of a Lipschitz continuous flux F, we justify the uniqueness of u (the uniqueness of b(u) is well-known) and prove the continuous dependence in L ¹ for the case of strongly convergent finite energy data. We also prove convergence of the ${\varepsilon}$ -discretized solutions used in the semigroup approach to the problem; and we prove convergence of a monotone time-implicit finite volume scheme. In the case of a merely continuous flux F, we show that the problem admits a maximal and a minimal solution.     

Existence of solutions to nonlinear advection-diffusion equation applied to Burgers’ equation using Sinc methods

This paper has two objectives. First, we prove the existence of solutions to the general advection-diffusion equation subject to a reasonably smooth initial condition. We investigate the behavior of the solution of these problems for large values of time. Secondly, a numerical scheme using the Sinc-Galerkin method is developed to approximate the solution of a simple model of turbulence, which is a special case of the advection-diffusion equation, known as Burgers’ equation. The approximate solution is shown to converge to the exact solution at an exponential rate. A numerical example is given to illustrate the accuracy of the method.     

Existence of positive solutions to an elliptic system with coupled nonlinearity†

In this article, we study weakly coupled systems of elliptic equations without Hamiltonian structure in both bounded domain and the whole space. By using a priori estimates, Pohozaev identity and degree theory, we are able to show the existence of positive solutions.     

Classification of radial solutions to the Emden–Fowler equation on the hyperbolic space

We study the Emden–Fowler equation ?Δu = |u| ^p?1 u on the hyperbolic space ${{\mathbb H}^n}$ . We are interested in radial solutions, namely solutions depending only on the geodesic distance from a given point. The critical exponent for such equation is p = (n + 2)/(n ? 2) as in the Euclidean setting, but the properties of the solutions show striking differences with the Euclidean case. While the papers (Bhakta and Sandeep, Poincaré Sobolev equations in the hyperbolic space, 2011; Mancini and Sandeep, Ann Sci Norm Sup Pisa Cl Sci 7(5):635–671, 2008) consider finite energy solutions, we shall deal here with infinite energy solutions and we determine the exact asymptotic behavior of wide classes of finite and infinite energy solutions.     

Existence and uniqueness of positive solutions of semilinear elliptic equations

This paper is devoted to the study of existence,uniqueness and non-degeneracy of positive solutions of semi-linear elliptic equations.A necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of positive solutions to problems is given.We prove that if the uniqueness and non-degeneracy results are valid for positive solutions of a class of semi-linear elliptic equations,then they are still valid when one perturbs the differential operator a little bit.As consequences,some uniqueness results of positive solutions under the domain perturbation are also obtained.     

Entropy solution for a nonlinear elliptic problem with lower order term in Musielak–Orlicz spaces

In this paper, we shall be concerned with the existence result of the following problem,

$$\begin{aligned} \left\{ \begin{array}{l} -\text {div}\left( a(x,u,\nabla u)\right) -\text {div}(\Phi (x,u))= f \ \ \mathrm{in}\ \Omega ,\\ u=0 \text { on } \partial \Omega , \end{array} \right. \end{aligned}$$

(0.1)

with the second term f belongs to \(L^1(\Omega )\). The growth and the coercivity conditions on the monotone vector field a are prescribed by a generalized N-function M. We assume any restriction on M, therefore we work with Musielak–Orlicz spaces which are not necessarily reflexive. The lower order term \(\Phi \) is a Carathéodory function satisfying only a growth condition.

     

Existence of solutions to the Kobayashi–Warren–Carter system

In this paper, a coupled system of two parabolic type initial-boundary value problems is considered. The system is known as the Kobayashi–Warren–Carter model of grain boundary motion in a polycrystal. Kobayashi–Warren–Carter model is derived as a gradient descent flow of an energy functional, which is called “free-energy”, with respect to two unknown variables and it involves a weighted-unknown dependent total variation term. The main goal of this paper is to obtain existence of solutions to this system. We solve the problem by means of a time-discretization of a relaxed system and a highly non-trivial passage to the limit. We point out that our time-discretization method is effective not only for the original Kobayashi–Warren–Carter system but also for its relaxed versions. Therefore, we provide a uniform approach for obtaining solutions to systems associated with this model.