We set a coupled boundary value problem between two domains of different dimension. The first one is the unit cube of Rn, n C [2,3], with a crack and the second one is the crack. this problem comes from Ciarlet et al. (1989), that obtained an analogous coupled problem. We show that the solution has singularities due to the crack. As in Grisvard (1989), we adapt the Hilbert uniqueness method of J.-L. Lions (1968,1988) in order to obtain the exact controllability of the associated wave equation with...

In this paper we study the boundary exact controllability for the equation $$\frac{\partial }{\partial t}\left(\alpha \left(t\right)\frac{\partial y}{\partial t}\right)-\sum _{j=1}^n\frac{\partial }{\partial x_j}\left(\beta \left(t\right)a\left(x\right)\frac{\partial y}{\partial x_j}\right)=0\text{in}\Omega \times (0,T),$$ when the control action is of Dirichlet-Neumann form and $\Omega$ is a bounded domain in $R^n$. The result is obtained by applying the HUM (Hilbert Uniqueness Method) due to J. L. Lions.

We establish exact Schauder estimates of solutions of the transmission problem for linear parabolic second order equations with explicit dependence on the smoothness of the coefficients. Next we apply the estimates to the solvability of the nonlinear transmission problem.

Our main purpose is to establish the existence of a positive solution of the system ⎧$-{∆}_{p\left(x\right)}u=F(x,u,v)$, x ∈ Ω, ⎨$-{∆}_{q\left(x\right)}v=H(x,u,v)$, x ∈ Ω, ⎩u = v = 0, x ∈ ∂Ω, where $\Omega \subset {ℝ}^N$ is a bounded domain with C² boundary, $F(x,u,v)={\lambda }^{p\left(x\right)}[g\left(x\right)a\left(u\right)+f\left(v\right)]$, $H(x,u,v)={\lambda }^{q(x})[g\left(x\right)b\left(v\right)+h\left(u\right)]$, λ > 0 is a parameter, p(x),q(x) are functions which satisfy some conditions, and $-{∆}_{p\left(x\right)}u=-{div\left(\right|\nabla u|}^{p\left(x\right)-2}\nabla u)$ is called the p(x)-Laplacian. We give existence results and consider the asymptotic behavior of solutions near the boundary. We do not assume any symmetry conditions on the system.

The present paper studies the existence and uniqueness of global solutions and decay rates to a given nonlinear hyperbolic problem.

We prove existence and asymptotic behaviour of a weak solutions of a mixed problem for $$\begin{array}{cc}& u^{\text{'}\text{'}}+Au-\Delta u^{\text{'}}+{\left|v\right|}^{\rho +2}{\left|u\right|}^{\rho }u=f_1\hfill \\ & v^{\text{'}\text{'}}+Av-\Delta v^{\text{'}}+{\left|u\right|}^{\rho +2}{\left|v\right|}^{\rho }v=f_2*\hfill \end{array}$$ where $A$ is the pseudo-Laplacian operator.

We consider the damped semilinear viscoelastic wave equation $$u^{\text{'}\text{'}}-\Delta u+{\int }_0^{t}h(t-\tau )div\left\{a\nabla u\left(\tau \right)\right\}\mathrm{d}\tau +g\left(u^{\text{'}}\right)=0\text{in}\Omega \times (0,\infty )$$ with nonlocal boundary dissipation. The existence of global solutions is proved by means of the Faedo-Galerkin method and the uniform decay rate of the energy is obtained by following the perturbed energy method provided that the kernel of the memory decays exponentially.