Elliptic equations with decreasing nonlinearity I: barrier method for decreasing solutions
In this paper, the axisymmetric flow in an ideal fluid outside the infinite cylinder () where denotes the cylindrical co-ordinates in is considered. The motion is with swirl (i.e. the -component of the velocity of the flow is non constant). The (non-dimensional) equation governing the phenomenon is (Pd) displayed below. It is known from e.g. that for the problem without swirl ( in (f)) in the whole space, as the flux constant tends to , 1) ; ; 2) converges to a vortex cylinder (see...
The existence of decaying positive solutions in of the equations and displayed below is considered. From the existence of such solutions for the subhomogeneous cases (i.e. as ), a super-sub-solutions method (see § 2.2) enables us to obtain existence theorems for more general cases.
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