Evaluation of diffusion coefficient based on multiple forward solutions

This note is concerned with the identification of the unknown diffusion coefficient for a parabolic equation. It introduces an iterative algorithm that can be used to recover the unknown function. The algorithm assumes an initial guess for the unknown function and obtains a background field. It obtains an equation for the error field. It then formulates three forward problems for the error field. These three formulations share the same unknown function which is the correction to the assumed value of the unknown diffusion coefficient. By equating the responses of these three formulations, the algorithm obtains two working equations for the unknown function. A number of numerical examples are also used to study the performance of the algorithm.     

Newton method for reactive solute transport with equilibrium sorption in porous media

We present a mass conservative numerical scheme for reactive solute transport in porous media. The transport is modeled by a convection-diffusion-reaction equation, including equilibrium sorption. The scheme is based on the mixed finite element method (MFEM), more precisely the lowest-order Raviart-Thomas elements and one-step Euler implicit. The underlying fluid flow is described by the Richards equation, a possibly degenerate parabolic equation, which is also discretized by MFEM. This work is a continuation of Radu et al. (2008) and Radu et al. (2009) [1] and [2] where the algorithmic aspects of the scheme and the analysis of the discretization method are presented, respectively. Here we consider the Newton method for solving the fully discrete nonlinear systems arising on each time step after discretization. The convergence of the scheme is analyzed. In the case when the solute undergoes equilibrium sorption (of Freundlich type), the problem becomes degenerate and a regularization step is necessary. We derive sufficient conditions for the quadratic convergence of the Newton scheme.     

A nonlinear iteration method for solving a two-dimensional nonlinear coupled system of parabolic and hyperbolic equations

A nonlinear iteration method for solving a class of two-dimensional nonlinear coupled systems of parabolic and hyperbolic equations is studied. A simple iterative finite difference scheme is designed; the calculation complexity is reduced by decoupling the nonlinear system, and the precision is assured by timely evaluation updating. A strict theoretical analysis is carried out as regards the convergence and approximation properties of the iterative scheme, and the related stability and approximation properties of the nonlinear fully implicit finite difference (FIFD) scheme. The iterative algorithm has a linear constringent ratio; its solution gives a second-order spatial approximation and first-order temporal approximation to the real solution. The corresponding nonlinear FIFD scheme is stable and gives the same order of approximation. Numerical tests verify the results of the theoretical analysis. The discrete functional analysis and inductive hypothesis reasoning techniques used in this paper are helpful for overcoming difficulties arising from the nonlinearity and coupling and lead to a related theoretical analysis for nonlinear FI schemes.     

Parabolic equations with VMO coefficients in generalized Morrey spaces

In this paper, the authors establish the regularity in generalized Morrey spaces of solutions to parabolic equations with VMO coefficients by means of the theory of singular integrals and linear commutators.     

Mapping properties of the heat operator on edge manifolds

We consider the heat operator acting on differential forms on spaces with complete and incomplete edge metrics. In the latter case we study the heat operator of the Hodge Laplacian with algebraic boundary conditions at the edge singularity. We establish the mapping properties of the heat operator, recovering and extending the classical results from smooth manifolds and conical spaces. The estimates, together with strong continuity of the heat operator, yield short‐time existence of solutions to certain semilinear parabolic equations. Our discussion reviews and generalizes earlier work by Jeffres and Loya.     

Simultaneous reconstruction of the source term and the surface heat transfer coefficient

We study the problem of identifying unknown source terms in an inverse parabolic problem, when the overspecified (measured) data are given in form of Dirichlet boundary condition u(0,t) = h(t) and , where is an arbitrarily prescribed subregion. The main goal here is to show that the gradient of cost functional can be expressed via the solutions of the direct and corresponding adjoint problems. We prove Hölder continuity of the cost functional and derive the Lipschitz constant in the explicit form via the given data. On the basis of the obtained results, we propose a monotone iteration process. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Blow‐up phenomena for a pseudo‐parabolic equation

By the means of a differential inequality technique, we obtain a lower bound for blow‐up time if p and the initial value satisfy some conditions. Also, we establish a blow‐up criterion and an upper bound for blow‐up time under some conditions as well as a nonblow‐up and exponential decay under some other conditions. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Time‐dependent operators on some non‐orientable projective orbifolds

G. R. Franssens In this paper, we present an explicit construction for the fundamental solution of the heat operator, the Schrödinger operator, and related first‐order parabolic Dirac operators on a class of some conformally flat non‐orientable orbifolds. More concretely, we treat a class of projective cylinders and tori where we can study parabolic monogenic sections with values in different pin bundles. We present integral representation formulas together with some elementary tools of harmonic analysis that enable us to solve boundary value problems on these orbifolds. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

The Crank–Nicolson–Galerkin finite element method for a nonlocal parabolic equation with moving boundaries

The aim of this article is to establish the convergence and error bounds for the fully discrete solutions of a class of nonlinear equations of reaction–diffusion nonlocal type with moving boundaries, using a linearized Crank–Nicolson–Galerkin finite element method with polynomial approximations of any degree. A coordinate transformation which fixes the boundaries is used. Some numerical tests to compare our Matlab code with some existing moving finite element methods are investigated. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq 31: 1515–1533, 2015     

BSDEs with Jumps and Path-Dependent Parabolic Integro-differential Equations

This paper deals with backward stochastic differential equations with jumps, whose data (the terminal condition and coefficient) are given functions of jump-diffusion process paths. The author introduces a type of nonlinear path-dependent parabolic integrodifferential equations, and then obtains a new type of nonlinear Feynman-Kac formula related to such BSDEs with jumps under some regularity conditions.