Stable Solutions of Elliptic Partial Differential Equations
Stable Solutions of Elliptic Partial Differential Equations

Author: Louis Dupaigne

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2011-03-15

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 1420066552

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Stable solutions are ubiquitous in differential equations. They represent meaningful solutions from a physical point of view and appear in many applications, including mathematical physics (combustion, phase transition theory) and geometry (minimal surfaces). Stable Solutions of Elliptic Partial Differential Equations offers a self-contained presentation of the notion of stability in elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs). The central questions of regularity and classification of stable solutions are treated at length. Specialists will find a summary of the most recent developments of the theory, such as nonlocal and higher-order equations. For beginners, the book walks you through the fine versions of the maximum principle, the standard regularity theory for linear elliptic equations, and the fundamental functional inequalities commonly used in this field. The text also includes two additional topics: the inverse-square potential and some background material on submanifolds of Euclidean space.

Stable Solutions of Elliptic Partial Differential Equations
Stable Solutions of Elliptic Partial Differential Equations

Author: Louis Dupaigne

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2011-03-15

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1420066544

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Stable solutions are ubiquitous in differential equations. They represent meaningful solutions from a physical point of view and appear in many applications, including mathematical physics (combustion, phase transition theory) and geometry (minimal surfaces). Stable Solutions of Elliptic Partial Differential Equations offers a self-contained presentation of the notion of stability in elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs). The central questions of regularity and classification of stable solutions are treated at length. Specialists will find a summary of the most recent developments of the theory, such as nonlocal and higher-order equations. For beginners, the book walks you through the fine versions of the maximum principle, the standard regularity theory for linear elliptic equations, and the fundamental functional inequalities commonly used in this field. The text also includes two additional topics: the inverse-square potential and some background material on submanifolds of Euclidean space.

Finite Difference Methods for Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations
Finite Difference Methods for Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations

Author: Randall J. LeVeque

Publisher: SIAM

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780898717839

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This book introduces finite difference methods for both ordinary differential equations (ODEs) and partial differential equations (PDEs) and discusses the similarities and differences between algorithm design and stability analysis for different types of equations. A unified view of stability theory for ODEs and PDEs is presented, and the interplay between ODE and PDE analysis is stressed. The text emphasizes standard classical methods, but several newer approaches also are introduced and are described in the context of simple motivating examples.

Numerical Methods for Elliptic and Parabolic Partial Differential Equations
Numerical Methods for Elliptic and Parabolic Partial Differential Equations

Author: Peter Knabner

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2003-06-26

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 038795449X

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This text provides an application oriented introduction to the numerical methods for partial differential equations. It covers finite difference, finite element, and finite volume methods, interweaving theory and applications throughout. The book examines modern topics such as adaptive methods, multilevel methods, and methods for convection-dominated problems and includes detailed illustrations and extensive exercises.

Partial Differential Equations
Partial Differential Equations

Author: Walter A. Strauss

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2007-12-21

Total Pages: 467

ISBN-13: 0470054565

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Our understanding of the fundamental processes of the natural world is based to a large extent on partial differential equations (PDEs). The second edition of Partial Differential Equations provides an introduction to the basic properties of PDEs and the ideas and techniques that have proven useful in analyzing them. It provides the student a broad perspective on the subject, illustrates the incredibly rich variety of phenomena encompassed by it, and imparts a working knowledge of the most important techniques of analysis of the solutions of the equations. In this book mathematical jargon is minimized. Our focus is on the three most classical PDEs: the wave, heat and Laplace equations. Advanced concepts are introduced frequently but with the least possible technicalities. The book is flexibly designed for juniors, seniors or beginning graduate students in science, engineering or mathematics.

Elliptic Partial Differential Equations
Elliptic Partial Differential Equations

Author: Qing Han

Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 0821853139

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This volume is based on PDE courses given by the authors at the Courant Institute and at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. Presented are basic methods for obtaining various a priori estimates for second-order equations of elliptic type with particular emphasis on maximal principles, Harnack inequalities, and their applications. The equations considered in the book are linear; however, the presented methods also apply to nonlinear problems.

The obstacle problem
The obstacle problem

Author: Luis Angel Caffarelli

Publisher: Edizioni della Normale

Published: 1999-10-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788876422492

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The material presented here corresponds to Fermi lectures that I was invited to deliver at the Scuola Normale di Pisa in the spring of 1998. The obstacle problem consists in studying the properties of minimizers of the Dirichlet integral in a domain D of Rn, among all those configurations u with prescribed boundary values and costrained to remain in D above a prescribed obstacle F. In the Hilbert space H1(D) of all those functions with square integrable gradient, we consider the closed convex set K of functions u with fixed boundary value and which are greater than F in D. There is a unique point in K minimizing the Dirichlet integral. That is called the solution to the obstacle problem.

Elliptic Partial Differential Equations and Quasiconformal Mappings in the Plane
Elliptic Partial Differential Equations and Quasiconformal Mappings in the Plane

Author: Kari Astala

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2008-12-29

Total Pages: 696

ISBN-13: 1400830117

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This book explores the most recent developments in the theory of planar quasiconformal mappings with a particular focus on the interactions with partial differential equations and nonlinear analysis. It gives a thorough and modern approach to the classical theory and presents important and compelling applications across a spectrum of mathematics: dynamical systems, singular integral operators, inverse problems, the geometry of mappings, and the calculus of variations. It also gives an account of recent advances in harmonic analysis and their applications in the geometric theory of mappings. The book explains that the existence, regularity, and singular set structures for second-order divergence-type equations--the most important class of PDEs in applications--are determined by the mathematics underpinning the geometry, structure, and dimension of fractal sets; moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces; and conformal dynamical systems. These topics are inextricably linked by the theory of quasiconformal mappings. Further, the interplay between them allows the authors to extend classical results to more general settings for wider applicability, providing new and often optimal answers to questions of existence, regularity, and geometric properties of solutions to nonlinear systems in both elliptic and degenerate elliptic settings.

Degenerate Elliptic Equations
Degenerate Elliptic Equations

Author: Serge Levendorskii

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-11-11

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 9401712158

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This volume is the first to be devoted to the study of various properties of wide classes of degenerate elliptic operators of arbitrary order and pseudo-differential operators with multiple characteristics. Conditions for operators to be Fredholm in appropriate weighted Sobolev spaces are given, a priori estimates of solutions are derived, inequalities of the Grding type are proved, and the principal term of the spectral asymptotics for self-adjoint operators is computed. A generalization of the classical Weyl formula is proposed. Some results are new, even for operators of the second order. In addition, an analogue of the Boutet de Monvel calculus is developed and the index is computed. For postgraduate and research mathematicians, physicists and engineers whose work involves the solution of partial differential equations.

Nonlinear Parabolic and Elliptic Equations
Nonlinear Parabolic and Elliptic Equations

Author: C.V. Pao

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 786

ISBN-13: 1461530342

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In response to the growing use of reaction diffusion problems in many fields, this monograph gives a systematic treatment of a class of nonlinear parabolic and elliptic differential equations and their applications these problems. It is an important reference for mathematicians and engineers, as well as a practical text for graduate students.