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The present paper concerns a class of abstract mixed variational problems governed by a strongly monotone Lipschitz continuous operator. With the existence and uniqueness results in the literature for the problem under consideration, we prove a general convergence result, which shows the continuous dependence of the solution with respect to the data by using arguments of monotonicity, compactness, lower semicontinuity and Mosco convergence. Then we consider an associated optimal control problem for which we prove the existence of optimal pairs. The mathematical tools developed in this paper are useful in the analysis and control of a large class of boundary value problems which, in a weak formulation, lead to mixed variational problems. To provide an example, we illustrate our results in the study of a mathematical model which describes the equilibrium of an elastic body in frictional contact with a foundation.

This paper is devoted to the study of the Cubic B-splines to find the numerical solution of linear and non-linear 8th order BVPs that arises in the study of astrophysics, magnetic fields, astronomy, beam theory, cylindrical shells, hydrodynamics and hydro-magnetic stability, engineering, applied physics, fluid dynamics, and applied mathematics. The recommended method transforms the boundary problem to a system of linear equations. The algorithm we are going to develop in this paper is not only simply the approximation solution of the 8th order BVPs using Cubic-B spline but it also describes the estimated derivatives of 1st order to 8th order of the analytic solution. The strategy is effectively applied to numerical examples and the outcomes are compared with the existing results. The method proposed in this paper provides better approximations to the exact solution.

This paper constructs the generalized viscosity implicit midpoint rule for nonexpansive mappings in Banach space. It obtains strong convergence conclusions for the proposed algorithm and promotes the related results in this field. Moreover, this paper gives some applications. Finally, the paper gives six numerical examples to support the main results.

In this paper we prove the existence of an optimal set for the minimization of the $k$-th variational eigenvalue of the $p$-Laplacian among $p$-quasi open sets of fixed measure included in a box of finite measure. An analogous existence result is obtained for eigenvalues of the $p$-Laplacian associated with Schr\"odinger potentials. In order to deal with these nonlinear shape optimization problems, we develop a general approach which allows to treat the continuous dependence of the eigenvalues of the $p$-Laplacian associated with sign-changing capacitary measures under $\gamma$-convergence., Comment: This is an extended version of the published paper (on J. London Math. Soc.). In particular, the reader can find an extended Section 2 of preliminaries and the detailed proofs of Theorem 3.1, Proposition 5.9 and Corollary 5.26, which have been omitted or shortened in the published version. The numbering of Sections, Theorems, Lemmas, etc is unchanged

In this paper a nonlinear system of Riemann&ndash, Liouville (RL) fractional differential equationswith non-instantaneous impulses is studied. The presence of non-instantaneous impulses requireappropriate definitions of impulsive conditions and initial conditions. In the paper several types ofinitial value problems are considered and their mild solutions are given via integral representations.In the linear case the equivalence of the solution and mild solutions is established. Conditions forexistence and uniqueness of initial value problems are presented. Several examples are providedto illustrate the influence of impulsive functions and the interpretation of impulses in the RLfractional case.

[EN] In this paper, we deal with uncertainty quantification for the random Legendre differential equation, with input coefficient A and initial conditions X-0 and X-1. In a previous study (Calbo et al. in Comput Math Appl 61(9):2782-2792, 2011), a mean square convergent power series solution on (-1/e, 1/e) was constructed, under the assumptions of mean fourth integrability of X-0 and X-1, independence, and at most exponential growth of the absolute moments of A. In this paper, we relax these conditions to construct an L-p solution (1, This work has been supported by the Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad Grant MTM2017-89664-P. Marc Jornet acknowledges the doctorate scholarship granted by Programa de Ayudas de Investigacion y Desarrollo (PAID), Universitat Politecnica de Valencia.

In the fields of continuous casting and the roll stepped cooling, the heat transfer coefficient is piecewise linear. However, few papers discuss the solution of the backward heat conduction problem in this situation. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to solve the backward heat conduction problem, which has the piecewise linear heat transfer coefficient. Firstly, the ill-posed of this problem is discussed and the truncated regularized optimization scheme is introduced to solve this problem. Secondly, because the regularization parameter is the key factor for the regularization method, this paper presents an improved method for choosing the regularization parameter to reduce the iterative number and proves the fourth-order convergence of this method. Furthermore, the numerical simulation experiments show that, compared with other methods, the improved method of fourth-order convergence effectively reduces the iterative number. Finally, the truncated regularized optimization scheme is used to estimate the initial temperature, and the results of numerical simulation experiments illustrate that the inverse values match the exact values very well.

Diffusion approximation provides weak approximation for stochastic gradient descent algorithms in a finite time horizon. In this paper, we introduce new tools motivated by the backward error analysis of numerical stochastic differential equations into the theoretical framework of diffusion approximation, extending the validity of the weak approximation from finite to infinite time horizon. The new techniques developed in this paper enable us to characterize the asymptotic behavior of constant-step-size SGD algorithms for strongly convex objective functions, a goal previously unreachable within the diffusion approximation framework. Our analysis builds upon a truncated formal power expansion of the solution of a stochastic modified equation arising from diffusion approximation, where the main technical ingredient is a uniform-in-time weak error bound controlling the long-term behavior of the expansion coefficient functions near the global minimum. We expect these new techniques to greatly expand the range of applicability of diffusion approximation to cover wider and deeper aspects of stochastic optimization algorithms in data science., 22 pages, 3 figures. To appear in Comm. Math. Sci. (2019+)

This paper is concerned with well-posedness of the Cahn-Hilliard equation subject to a class of new dynamic boundary conditions. The system was recently derived in Liu-Wu (Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 233 (2019), 167-247) via an energetic variational approach and it naturally fulfills three physical constraints such as mass conservation, energy dissipation and force balance. The target problem examined in this paper can be viewed as a transmission problem that consists of Cahn-Hilliard type equations both in the bulk and on the boundary. In our approach, we are able to deal with a general class of potentials with double-well structure, including the physically relevant logarithmic potential and the non-smooth double-obstacle potential. Existence, uniqueness and continuous dependence of global weak solutions are established. The proof is based on a novel time-discretization scheme for the approximation of the continuous problem. Besides, a regularity result is shown with the aim of obtaining a strong solution to the system.

This paper deals with dynamical optimal transport metrics defined by spatial discretisation of the Benamou--Benamou formula for the Kantorovich metric $W_2$. Such metrics appear naturally in discretisations of $W_2$-gradient flow formulations for dissipative PDE. However, it has recently been shown that these metrics do not in general converge to $W_2$, unless strong geometric constraints are imposed on the discrete mesh. In this paper we prove that, in a $1$-dimensional periodic setting, discrete transport metrics converge to a limiting transport metric with a non-trivial effective mobility. This mobility depends sensitively on the geometry of the mesh and on the non-local mobility at the discrete level. Our result quantifies to what extent discrete transport can make use of microstructure in the mesh to reduce the cost of transport., Comment: 30 pages, minor update

In his recent Proceedings of the AMS paper, “Gossez’s skew linear map and its pathological maximally monotone multifunctions”, Stephen Simons proved that the closure of the range of the sum of the Gossez operator and a multiple of the duality map is not convex whenever the scalar is between 0 0 and 4 4 . The problem of the convexity of that range when the scalar is equal to 4 4 was explicitly stated. In this paper, we answer this question in the negative for any scalar greater than or equal to 4 4 . We derive this result from an abstract framework that allows us to also obtain a corresponding result for the Fitzpatrick-Phelps integral operator.

Stability criteria for stochastic differential delay equations (SDDEs) have been studied intensively for the past few decades. However, most of these criteria can only be applied to delay equations where their coefficients are either linear or nonlinear but bounded by linear functions. Recently, the stability of highly nonlinear hybrid stochastic differential equations with a single delay is investigated in [Fei, Hu, Mao and Shen, Automatica, 2017], whose work, in this paper, is extended to highly nonlinear hybrid stochastic differential equations with variable multiple delays. In other words, this paper establishes the stability criteria of highly nonlinear hybrid variable multiple-delay stochastic differential equations. We also discuss an example to illustrate our results.

Fourier series approximations of continuous but nonperiodic functions on an interval suffer the Gibbs phenomenon, which means there is a permanent oscillatory overshoot in the neighborhoods of the endpoints. Fourier extensions circumvent this issue by approximating the function using a Fourier series that is periodic on a larger interval. Previous results on the convergence of Fourier extensions have focused on the error in the $$L^2$$ L 2 norm, but in this paper we analyze pointwise and uniform convergence of Fourier extensions (formulated as the best approximation in the $$L^2$$ L 2 norm). We show that the pointwise convergence of Fourier extensions is more similar to Legendre series than classical Fourier series. In particular, unlike classical Fourier series, Fourier extensions yield pointwise convergence at the endpoints of the interval. Similar to Legendre series, pointwise convergence at the endpoints is slower by an algebraic order of a half compared to that in the interior. The proof is conducted by an analysis of the associated Lebesgue function, and Jackson- and Bernstein-type theorems for Fourier extensions. Numerical experiments are provided. We conclude the paper with open questions regarding the regularized and oversampled least squares interpolation versions of Fourier extensions.

This paper uses the viscosity implicit midpoint rule to find common points of the fixed point set of a nonexpansive mapping and the zero point set of an accretive operator in Banach space. Under certain conditions, this paper obtains the strong convergence results of the proposed algorithm and improves the relevant results of researchers in this field. In the end, this paper gives numerical examples to support the main results.

In this paper, we analyze two discontinuous self-mappings that satisfy Sehgal-type inequalities in the setup of complete b-metric space. The main results of the paper cover and extend a few existing results in the corresponding literature. Furthermore, we give some illustrative examples to verify the effectiveness and strength of our derived results. Thereafter, as an application, we consider the obtained result to aggregate the existence and uniqueness of the solution for nonlinear Fredholm integral equations.

The fractional calculus is useful in describing the natural phenomena with memory effect. This paper addresses the fractional form of Ambartsumian equation with a delay parameter. It may be a challenge to obtain accurate approximate solution of such kinds of fractional delay equations. In the literature, several attempts have been conducted to analyze the fractional Ambartsumian equation. However, the previous approaches in the literature led to approximate power series solutions which converge in subdomains. Such difficulties are solved in this paper via the Homotopy Perturbation Method (HPM). The present approximations are expressed in terms of the Mittag-Leffler functions which converge in the whole domain of the studied model. The convergence issue is also addressed. Several comparisons with the previous published results are discussed. In particular, while the computed solution in the literature is physical in short domains, with our approach it is physical in the whole domain. The results reveal that the HPM is an effective tool to analyzing the fractional Ambartsumian equation.

This paper further improves the Lie group method with Magnus expansion proposed in a previous paper by the authors, to solve some types of direct singular Sturm&ndash, Liouville problems. Next, a concrete implementation to the inverse Sturm&ndash, Liouville problem algorithm proposed by Barcilon (1974) is provided. Furthermore, computational feasibility and applicability of this algorithm to solve inverse Sturm&ndash, Liouville problems of higher order (for n=2,4) are verified successfully. It is observed that the method is successful even in the presence of significant noise, provided that the assumptions of the algorithm are satisfied. In conclusion, this work provides a method that can be adapted successfully for solving a direct (regular/singular) or inverse Sturm&ndash, Liouville problem (SLP) of an arbitrary order with arbitrary boundary conditions.

In 1977, Nourein (Intern. J. Comput. Math. 6:3, 1977) constructed a fourth-order iterative method for finding all zeros of a polynomial simultaneously. This method is also known as Ehrlich&rsquo, s method with Newton&rsquo, s correction because it is obtained by combining Ehrlich&rsquo, s method (Commun. ACM 10:2, 1967) and the classical Newton&rsquo, s method. The paper provides a detailed local convergence analysis of a well-known but not well-studied generalization of Nourein&rsquo, s method for simultaneous finding of multiple polynomial zeros. As a consequence, we obtain two types of local convergence theorems as well as semilocal convergence theorems (with verifiable initial condition and a posteriori error bound) for the classical Nourein&rsquo, s method. Each of the new semilocal convergence results improves the result of Petković, Petković and Rančić (J. Comput. Appl. Math. 205:1, 2007) in several directions. The paper ends with several examples that show the applicability of our semilocal convergence theorems.

This paper is devoted to the study of groups from the category M of R-power groups. We examine problems on the commutation of the tensor completion with basic group operations and on the exactness of the tensor completion. Moreover, we introduce the notion of a variety and obtain a description of abelian varieties and some results on nilpotent varieties of A-groups. We prove the hypothesis on irreducible coordinate groups of algebraic sets for the nilpotent R-groups of nilpotency class 2, where R is a Euclidean ring. We state that the analog to the Lyndon result for the free groups (see [10]) holds in this case, whereas the analog to the Myasnikov–Kharlampovich result fails.The paper is dedicated to partial R-power groups which are embeddable to their A-tensor completions. The free R-groups and free R-products are described with usual group-theoretical free constructions.

The paper studies several approaches to numerical integration over a domain defined implicitly by an indicator function such as the level set function. The integration methods are based on subdivision, moment–fitting, local quasi-parametrization and Monte-Carlo techniques. As an application of these techniques, the paper addresses numerical solution of elliptic PDEs posed on domains and manifolds defined implicitly. A higher order unfitted finite element method (FEM) is assumed for the discretization. In such a method the underlying mesh is not fitted to the geometry, and hence the errors of numerical integration over curvilinear elements affect the accuracy of the finite element solution together with approximation errors. The paper studies the numerical complexity of the integration procedures and the performance of unfitted FEMs which employ these tools.

The paper concerns interesting problems related to the field of Complex Analysis, in particular Nevanlinna theory of meromorphic functions. The author have studied certain uniqueness problem on differential polynomials of meromorphic functions sharing a value or small function. The results of this paper are generalizations of some problems studied in [BOUSSAF, K.—ESCASSUT, A.—OJEDA, J.: Complex meromorphic functions f′P′(f), g′P′(g) sharing a small function, Indag. Math. (N.S.) 24 (2013), 15–41] and in [DYAVANAL, R. S.: Uniqueness and value-sharing of differential polynomials of meromorphic functions, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 374 (2011), 335–345].

The operators of stochastic differentiation, which are closely related with the extended Skorohod stochastic integral and with the Hida stochastic derivative, play an important role in the classical (Gaussian) white noise analysis. In particular, these operators can be used in order to study some properties of the extended stochastic integral and of solutions of stochastic equations with Wick-type nonlinearities. During recent years the operators of stochastic differentiation were introduced and studied, in particular, in the framework of the Meixner white noise analysis, in the same way as on spaces of regular test and generalized functions and on spaces of nonregular test functions of the Levy white noise analysis. In the present paper we make the next natural step: introduce and study operators of stochastic differentiation on spaces of nonregular generalized functions of the Levy white noise analysis (i.e., on spaces of generalized functions that belong to the so-called nonregular rigging of the space of square integrable with respect to the measure of a Levy white noise functions). In so doing, we use Lytvynov's generalization of the chaotic representation property. The researches of the present paper can be considered as a contribution in a further development of the Levy white noise analysis.

In this paper, we study the uniqueness of difference-differential polynomials of entire functions $f$ and $g$ sharing one value with counting multiplicity. In this paper we extend and generalize the results of X. Y. Zhang, J. F. Chen and W. C. Lin [17] L. Kai, L. Xin-ling and C. Ting-bin [7] and many others [2, 16].

The present paper is devoted to the study of stability, uniqueness and recurrence of generalized traveling waves of reaction-diffusion equations in time heterogeneous media of ignition type, whose existence has been proven by the authors of the present paper in a previous work. It is first shown that generalized traveling waves exponentially attract wave-like initial data. Next, properties of generalized traveling waves, such as space monotonicity and exponential decay ahead of interface, are obtained. Uniqueness up to space translations of generalized traveling waves is then proven. Finally, it is shown that the wave profile of the unique generalized traveling wave is of the same recurrence as the media. In particular, if the media is time almost periodic, then so is the wave profile of the unique generalized traveling wave.

This paper is concerned with a boundary value problem of second order singular differential equations on whole line. Sufficient conditions to guarantee existence and non-existence of positive solutions are established. Our results improve some theorems in known papers but the methods used are different. We give two examples to illustrate main theorems.

Let $A$ be an expanding matrix on ${\Bbb R}^s$ with integral entries. A fundamental question in the fractal tiling theory is to understand the structure of the digit set ${\mathcal D}\subset{\Bbb Z}^s$ so that the integral self-affine set $T(A,\mathcal D)$ is a translational tile on ${\Bbb R}^s$. In our previous paper, we classified such tile digit sets ${\mathcal D}\subset{\Bbb Z}$ by expressing the mask polynomial $P_{\mathcal D}$ into product of cyclotomic polynomials. In this paper, we first show that a tile digit set in ${\Bbb Z}^s$ must be an integer tile (i.e. ${\mathcal D}\oplus{\mathcal L} = {\Bbb Z}^s$ for some discrete set ${\mathcal L}$). This allows us to combine the technique of Coven and Meyerowitz on integer tiling on ${\Bbb R}^1$ together with our previous results to characterize explicitly all tile digit sets ${\mathcal D}\subset {\Bbb Z}$ with $A = p^{\alpha}q$ ($p, q$ distinct primes) as {\it modulo product-form} of some order, an advance of the previously known results for $A = p^\alpha$ and $pq$.

In this paper we introduce and analyze an algorithm for continuous data assimilation for a three-dimensional Brinkman-Forchheimer-extended Darcy (3D BFeD) model of porous media. This model is believed to be accurate when the flow velocity is too large for Darcy's law to be valid, and additionally the porosity is not too small. The algorithm is inspired by ideas developed for designing finite-parameters feedback control for dissipative systems. It aims to obtaining improved estimates of the state of the physical system by incorporating deterministic or noisy measurements and observations. Specifically, the algorithm involves a feedback control that nudges the large scales of the approximate solution toward those of the reference solution associated with the spatial measurements. In the first part of the paper, we present few results of existence and uniqueness of weak and strong solutions of the 3D BFeD system. The second part is devoted to the setting and convergence analysis of the data assimilation algorithm.

In 1812, Gauss obtained fifteen contiguous functions rela- tions. Later on, 1847, Henie gave their q-analogue. Recently, good progress has been done in finding more contiguous functions relations by employing results due to Gauss. In 1999, Cho et al. have obtained 24 new and interesting contiguous functions relations with the help of Gauss's 15 contiguous relations. In fact, such type of 72 relations exists and therefore the rest 48 contiguous functions relations have very recently been obtained by Rakha et al.. Thus, the paper is in continuation of the paper (16) published in Com- puter & Mathematics with Applications 61 (2011), 620-629. In this paper, first we obtained 15 q-contiguous functions relations due to He- nie by following a different method and then with the help of these 15 q-contiguous functions relations, we obtain 72 new and interesting q- contiguous functions relations. These q-contiguous functions relations have wide applications.

In recent studies, papers related to the multiplicative based numerical methods demonstrate applicability and efficiency of these methods. Numerical root-finding methods are essential for nonlinear equations and have a wide range of applications in science and engineering. Therefore, the idea of root-finding methods based on multiplicative and Volterra calculi is self-evident. Newton-Raphson, Halley, Broyden, and perturbed root-finding methods are used in numerical analysis for approximating the roots of nonlinear equations. In this paper, Newton-Raphson methods and consequently perturbed root-finding methods are developed in the frameworks of multiplicative and Volterra calculi. The efficiency of these proposed root-finding methods is exposed by examples, and the results are compared with some ordinary methods. One of the striking results of the proposed method is that the rate of convergence for many problems are considerably larger than the original methods.

In this paper, we introduce and study an explicit hybrid re- laxed extragradient iterative method to approximate a common solution to generalized mixed equilibrium problem and fixed point problem for a nonexpansive semigroup in Hilbert space. Further, we prove that the sequence generated by the proposed iterative scheme converges strongly to the common solution to generalized mixed equilibrium problem and fixed point problem for a nonexpansive semigroup. This common solu- tion is the unique solution of a variational inequality problem and is the optimality condition for a minimization problem. The results presented in this paper are the supplement, improvement and generalization of the previously known results in this area.

This paper proposes two numerical algorithms for solving Euler's elastica-based inpainting model. The minimizing functional is nonsmooth and nonconvex and involves high-order derivatives, that traditional gradient descent based methods converge very slowly. Recent alternating minimization methods show fast convergence when a good choice of parameters is used. The objective of this paper is to introduce efficient algorithms which have simple structures with fewer parameters. These methods are based on operator splitting and alternating direction method of multipliers, and subproblems can be solved efficiently by Fourier transforms and shrinkage operators. For the first method, we relax the normal vector in the curvature term of the Euler's elastica model and exploit two operator splitting techniques to propose a Relaxed Normal Two Split (RN2Split) method. The second method, $\kappa$-weighted Total Variation ($\kappa$TV), solves the Euler's elastica minimization problem as a weighted total variation. We pre...

In this paper, the authors prove that the solution blows up in a finite time for a larger class of initial data, namely positive initial energy. The results generalize and improve that of Giacomoni et al. (J Math Anal Appl 410:607–624, 2014). Furthermore, a lower bound estimate about blow-up time is also established. Finally, two examples are given in the paper to show the existence of the initial datum satisfying the conditions in the main theorem.

This is the first of a series of papers devoted to the initial value problem for the one-dimensional Euler system of compressible fluids and augmented versions containing higher-order terms. In the present paper, we are interested in dispersive shock waves and analyze the zero viscosity-capillarity limit associated with the Navier-Stokes-Korteweg system. Specifically, we establish the existence of finite energy solutions as well as their convergence toward entropy solutions to the Euler system. Our method of proof combines energy and effective energy estimates, a nonlinear Sobolev inequality, high-integrability properties for the mass density and for the velocity, and compactness properties based on entropies.© 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

In the present paper, we deal with some general estimates for the difference of operators which are associated with different fundamental functions. In order to exemplify the theoretical results presented in (for example) Theorem 2, we provide the estimates of the differences between some of the most representative operators used in Approximation Theory in especially the difference between the Baskakov and the Sz&aacute, sz&ndash, Mirakyan operators, the difference between the Baskakov and the Sz&aacute, Mirakyan&ndash, Baskakov operators, the difference of two genuine-Durrmeyer type operators, and the difference of the Durrmeyer operators and the Lupaş&ndash, Durrmeyer operators. By means of illustrative numerical examples, we show that, for particular cases, our result improves the estimates obtained by using the classical result of Shisha and Mond. We also provide the symmetry aspects of some of these approximations operators which we have studied in this paper.

The aim of this paper is to study the Lagrange interpolation on the unit circle taking only into account the separation properties of the nodal points. The novelty of this paper is that we do not consider nodal systems connected with orthogonal or paraorthogonal polynomials, which is an interesting approach because in practical applications this connection may not exist. A detailed study of the properties satisfied by the nodal system and the corresponding nodal polynomial is presented. We obtain the relevant results of the convergence related to the process for continuous smooth functions as well as the rate of convergence. Analogous results for interpolation on the bounded interval are deduced and finally some numerical examples are presented.

In this paper, first, we introduce a path for a convex combination of a pseudocontractive type of mappings with a perturbed mapping and prove strong convergence of the proposed path in a real reflexive Banach space having a weakly continuous duality mapping. Second, we propose two modified implicit iterative methods with a perturbed mapping for a continuous pseudocontractive mapping in the same Banach space. Strong convergence theorems for the proposed iterative methods are established. The results in this paper substantially develop and complement the previous well-known results in this area.

This paper is devoted to a new family of reverse Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequalities which involve a power law kernel with positive exponent. We investigate the range of the admissible parameters and the properties of the optimal functions. A striking open question is the possibility of concentration which is analyzed and related with free energy functionals and nonlinear diffusion equations involving mean field drifts., This paper is based on the merging of arXiv:1803.06151 and arXiv:1803.06232

In this paper, we establish the approximate controllability results for a non-autonomous functional differential equation using the theory of linear evolution system, Schauder fixed point theorem, and by making use of resolvent operators. The results obtained in this paper, improve the existing ones in this direction, to a considerable extent. An example is also given to illustrate the abstract results.

In this paper, we formulate a linear elastic second gradient isotropic two-dimensional continuum model accounting for irreversible damage. The failure is defined as the condition in which the damage parameter reaches 1, at least in one point of the domain. The quasi-static approximation is done, i.e., the kinetic energy is assumed to be negligible. In order to deal with dissipation, a damage dissipation term is considered in the deformation energy functional. The key goal of this paper is to apply a non-standard variational procedure to exploit the damage irreversibility argument. As a result, we derive not only the equilibrium equations but, notably, also the Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions. Finally, numerical simulations for exemplary problems are discussed as some constitutive parameters are varying, with the inclusion of a mesh-independence evidence. Element-free Galerkin method and moving least square shape functions have been employed.

This paper analyses discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods (DGFEM) to approximate a regular solution to the von Karman equations defined on a polygonal domain. A discrete inf–sup condition sufficient for the stability of the discontinuous Galerkin discretization of a well-posed linear problem is established, and this allows the proof of local existence and uniqueness of a discrete solution to the nonlinear problem with a Banach fixed point theorem. The Newton scheme is locally second-order convergent and appears to be a robust solution strategy up to machine precision. A comprehensive a priori and a posteriori energy-norm error analysis relies on one sufficiently large stabilization parameter and sufficiently fine triangulations. In case the other stabilization parameter degenerates towards infinity, the DGFEM reduces to a novel C0-interior penalty method (IPDG). In contrast to the known C0-IPDG dueto Brenner et al., (2016, A C0 interior penalty method for a von Karman plate. Numer. Math., 1–30), the overall discrete formulation maintains symmetry of the trilinear form in the first two components—despite the general nonsymmetry of the discrete nonlinear problems. Moreover, a reliable and efficient a posteriori error analysis immediately follows for the DGFEM of this paper, while the different norms in the known C0-IPDG lead to complications with some nonresidual-type remaining terms. Numerical experiments confirm the best-approximation results and the equivalence of the error and the error estimators. A related adaptive mesh-refining algorithm leads to optimal empirical convergence rates for a nonconvex domain.

This paper investigates the existence of weak solutions of biquasilinear boundary value problem for a coupled elliptic-parabolic system of divergence form with discontinuous leading coefficients. The mathematical framework addressed in the article considers the presence of an additional nonlinearity in the model which reflects the radiative thermal boundary effects in some applications of interest. The results are obtained via the Rothe-Galerkin method. Only weak assumptions are made on the data and the boundary conditions are allowed to be on a general form. The major contribution of the current paper is the explicit expressions for the constants appeared in the quantitative estimates that are derived. These detailed and explicit estimates may be useful for the study on nonlinear problems that appear in the real world applications. In particular, they clarify the smallness conditions. In conclusion, we illustrate how the above results may be applied to the thermoelectrochemical phenomena in an electrolysis cell. This problem has several applications as for instance to optimize the cell design and operating conditions., Comment: 26 pages, 1 figure

In this Paper we study a Bloch-Torrey regularization of the Rosensweig system for ferrofluids. The scope of this paper is twofold. First of all, we investigate the existence and uniqueness of solutions \`a la Leray of this model in the whole bidimensional space. Interesting enough, the well-posedness relies on a variation of the Aubin-Lions lemma for fractional time derivatives. In the second part of this paper we investigate both the long- time behavior of weak solutions and the propagation of Sobolev regularities in dimension two

We study the multiplicity of positive solutions of a Brezis–Nirenberg-type problem on a region of the three-dimensional sphere, which is invariant by the natural torus action. In the paper by Brezis and Peletier, the case in which the region is invariant by the (Formula presented.)-action is considered, namely, when the region is a spherical cap. We prove that the number of positive solutions increases as the parameter of the equation tends to (Formula presented.), giving an answer to a particular case of an open problem proposed in the above referred paper. Fil: Rey, Carolina Ana. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Investigaciones Matemáticas ; Argentina

In this paper, we discuss the existence and uniqueness of solutions of a boundary value problem for a fractional differential equation of order $\alpha\in(2,3)$, involving a general form of fractional derivative. First, we prove an equivalence between the Cauchy problem and the Volterra equation. Then, two results on the existence of solutions are proven, and we end with some illustrative examples., Comment: This is a preprint of a paper whose final and definite form is with "Bull. Malays. Math. Sci. Soc."

In this paper, we propose two classes of derivative-free Newton-like methods for solving system of nonlinear equations based on double Newton step. We also give the local convergence analysis of the iterative methods. In addition, some numerical results are also reported in the paper, which confirm the good theoretical properties of our approach.

This paper applies Nevanlinna theory of value distribution to discuss existence of solutions of certain types of non-linear differential-difference equations such as (5) and (8) given in the succeeding paragraphs. Existence of solutions of differential equations and difference equations can be said to have been well studied, that of differential-difference equations, on the other hand, have been paid little attention. Such mixed type equations have great significance in applications. This paper, in particular, generalizes the Rellich–Wittich-type theorem and Malmquist-type theorem about differential equations to the case of differential-difference equations. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

We consider nonlinear diffusion problems of the form ut=Δu+f(u) with Stefan type free boundary conditions, where the nonlinear term f(u) is of monostable, bistable or combustion type. Such problems are used as an alternative model (to the corresponding Cauchy problem) to describe the spreading of a biological or chemical species, where the free boundary represents the expanding front. We are interested in its long-time spreading behavior which, by recent results of Du, Matano and Wang [10], is largely determined by radially symmetric solutions. Therefore we will examine the radially symmetric case, where the equation is satisfied in |x| 0. Subsequently, sharper estimate of the spreading speed was obtained by the authors of the current paper in [11], in the form that limt→∞⁡[h(t)−c⁎t]=Hˆ∈R1. In this paper, we consider the case N≥2 and show that a logarithmic shifting occurs, namely there exists c⁎>0 independent of N such that limt→∞⁡[h(t)−c⁎t+(N−1)c⁎log⁡t]=hˆ∈R1. At the same time, we also obtain a rather clear description of the spreading profile of u(t,r). These results reveal striking differences from the spreading behavior modeled by the corresponding Cauchy problem.

The global existence of weak solutions of the incompressible viscoelastic flows in two spatial dimensions has been a longstanding open problem, and it is studied in this paper. We show global existence if the initial deformation gradient is close to the identity matrix in L2 ∩ L∞ and the initial velocity is small in L2 and bounded in Lp for some p > 2. While the assumption on the initial deformation gradient is automatically satisfied for the classical Oldroyd-B model, the additional assumption on the initial velocity being bounded in Lp for some p > 2 may due to techniques we employed. The smallness assumption on the L2 norm of the initial velocity is, however, natural for global well-posedness. One of the key observations in the paper is that the velocity and the “ effective viscous flux” G are sufficiently regular for positive time. The regularity of G leads to a new approach for the pointwise estimate for the deformation gradient without using L∞ bounds on the velocity gradients in spatial variables. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

The Truncated Nonsmooth Newton Multigrid (TNNMG) method is a robust and efficient solution method for a wide range of block-separable convex minimization problems, typically stemming from discretizations of nonlinear and nonsmooth partial differential equations. This paper proves global convergence of the method under weak conditions both on the objective functional, and on the local inexact subproblem solvers that are part of the method. It also discusses a range of algorithmic choices that allows to customize the algorithm for many specific problems. Numerical examples are deliberately omitted, because many such examples have already been published elsewhere., Dedicate the paper to Elias Pipping

In this paper, we continue our study of the quasihyperbolic metric over Banach spaces. The main results of the paper present a criterion for smoothness of geodesics of quasihyperbolic type metrics in Banach spaces, under a Dini type condition on the weight function, which improves an earlier result of the first two authors. We also answer a question posed by the first two authors in an earlier paper with R. Klén and present results related to the question of smoothness of quasihyperbolic balls.