On the Dirichlet problem for the degenerate real Monge Ampère equation.
Consider the domain and let the free path length be defined as In the Boltzmann-Grad scaling corresponding to , it is shown that the limiting distribution of is bounded from below by an expression of the form C/t, for some C> 0. A numerical study seems to indicate that asymptotically for large t, . This is an extension of a previous work [J. Bourgain et al., Comm. Math. Phys.190 (1998) 491-508]. As a consequence, it is proved that the linear Boltzmann type transport equation is inappropriate...
We establish a sharp upper bound for the resonance counting function for a class of asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds in arbitrary dimension, including convex, cocompact hyperbolic manifolds in two dimensions. The proof is based on the construction of a suitable paramatrix for the absolute -matrix that is unitary for real values of the energy. This paramatrix is the -matrix for a model laplacian corresponding to a separable metric near infinity. The proof of the upper bound on the resonance...
We consider selfadjoint positively definite operators of the form (not necessarily elliptic) in , , odd, where is a second-order differential operator with coefficients of compact supports. We show that the number of the scattering poles outside a conic neighbourhood of the real axis admits the same estimates as in the elliptic case. More precisely, if are the scattering poles associated to the operator repeated according to multiplicity, it is proved that for any there exists a constant...
We prove that solutions to the two-phase Stefan problem defined on a sequence of spatial domains converge to a solution of the same problem on a domain where is the limit of in the sense of Mosco. The corresponding free boundaries converge in the sense of Lebesgue measure on .
We study the dynamic behavior and stability of two connected Rayleigh beams that are subject to, in addition to two sensors and two actuators applied at the joint point, one of the actuators also specially distributed along the beams. We show that with the distributed control employed, there is a set of generalized eigenfunctions of the closed-loop system, which forms a Riesz basis with parenthesis for the state space. Then both the spectrum-determined growth condition and exponential stability...
We study a two-phase pipe flow model with relaxation terms in the momentum and energy equations, driving the model towards dynamic and thermal equilibrium. These equilibrium states are characterized by the velocities and temperatures being equal in each phase. For each of these relaxation processes, we consider the limits of zero and infinite relaxation times. By expanding on previously established results, we derive a formulation of the mixture sound velocity for the thermally relaxed model. This...
We study a two-phase pipe flow model with relaxation terms in the momentum and energy equations, driving the model towards dynamic and thermal equilibrium. These equilibrium states are characterized by the velocities and temperatures being equal in each phase. For each of these relaxation processes, we consider the limits of zero and infinite relaxation times. By expanding on previously established results, we derive a formulation of the mixture sound velocity for the thermally relaxed model. This...