Identification of the Rain Rate for a Boundary Value Problem of a Rainfall Infiltration in a Porous Medium. I. Existence of the Optimal Control

The purpose of this paper is to study an identification problem related to a specific nonlinear model describing the rainfall type infiltration into a porous medium in which saturation can be partially or totally reached after some time.     

Superlinear PCG Algorithms: Symmetric Part Preconditioning and Boundary Conditions

The superlinear convergence of the preconditioned CGM is studied for nonsymmetric elliptic problems (convection-diffusion equations) with mixed boundary conditions. A mesh independent rate of superlinear convergence is given when symmetric part preconditioning is applied to the FEM discretizations of the BVP. This is the extension of a similar result of the author for Dirichlet problems. The discussion relies on suitably developed Hilbert space theory for linear operators.     

Bounds for the fundamental solutions of elliptic and parabolic equations

It is shown that any elloptic or parabolic operator in nondivergence form with measurable coefficients has a global fundamental solution verifying certain pointwise bounds.     

Existence and Non-Existence Results for Quasilinear Elliptic Exterior Problems with Nonlinear Boundary Conditions

Existence and non-existence results are established for quasilinear elliptic problems with nonlinear boundary conditions and lack of compactness. The proofs combine variational methods with the geometrical feature, due to the competition between the different growths of the nonlinearities.     

Optimal control of backward stochastic heat equation with Neumann boundary control and noise

This paper considers a stochastic control problem in which the dynamic system is a controlled backward stochastic heat equation with Neumann boundary control and boundary noise and the state must coincide with a given random vector at terminal time. Through defining a proper form of the mild solution for the state equation, the existence and uniqueness of the mild solution is given. As a main result, a global maximum principle for our control problem is presented. The main result is also applied to a backward linear-quadratic control problem in which an optimal control is obtained explicitly as a feedback of the solution to a forward–backward stochastic partial differential equation.     

A Free Boundary Problem for an Elliptic–Parabolic System: Application to a Model of Tumor Growth

Abstract

In this article, we study a free boundary problem for a system of two partial differential equations, one parabolic and other elliptic. The system models the growth of a tumor with arbitrary initial shape. We establish the existence and uniqueness of a solution for some time interval. In the special case where we only have the elliptic equation, the problem coincides with the Hele–Shaw problem.     

MULTIPLE BOUNDARY LAYER PHENOMENA OF THE SOLUTION OF NONLINEAR HIGHER ORDER ELLIPTIC EQUATIONS WITH PERTURBATION BOTH IN BOUNDARY AND IN OPERATOR

1IntroductionInmanyproblemsofmechanicsandphysics,therefrequentlyappeartheellipticequationswiththederivativetermofthehigherordercontainingsmallparameters.Inengineering,thehigherorderellipticequationswithbothboundaryperturbationandoperatorperturbationoccurintheproblemsofcircularorellipticcoluxnnarshell(suchasthehullofasubmarineorthecolumnarshellroofetc.)withstiffeningribinthecirculnferentialdirection.Insuchcasesjthestudyofweldingstresscausedbyexternalpressureorself-weightduetoabnormalweldingposi…     

A MODIFIED UPWIND DIFFERENCE SCHEME FOR NONLINEAR PARABOLIC EQUATIONS IN A VARIABLE DOMAIN

The nonlinear parabolic equations in a variable domain are considered. A modified up-wind difference scheme is given in the variable domain. Stability in l norm and error estimate in norm are obtained.     

A BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD FOR A NONLINEAR BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEM IN STEADY-STATE HEAT TRANSFER IN DIMENSION THREE

In this paper, a new method of boundary reduction is proposed, which reduces thesteady-state heat transfer equation with radiation. Moreover, a boundary element method is pre-sented for its solution and the error estimates of the numerical approximations are given.