An ODE approach to the equation ... U + Ku ... = 0, in Rn.
Let be an odd function of a class such that and increases on . We approximate the positive solution of on with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions by the solution of on with adequate non-homogeneous Dirichlet conditions. We show that the error tends to zero exponentially fast, in the uniform norm.
Let f be an odd function of a class C2 such that ƒ(1) = 0,ƒ'(0) < 0,ƒ'(1) > 0 and increases on [0,1]. We approximate the positive solution of Δu + ƒ(u) = 0, on with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions by the solution of on ]0,L[2 with adequate non-homogeneous Dirichlet conditions. We show that the error uL - u tends to zero exponentially fast, in the uniform norm.
This note deals with the approximation, by a P1 finite element method with numerical integration, of solution curves of a semilinear problem. Because of both mixed boundary conditions and geometrical properties of the domain, some of the solutions do not belong to H2. So, classical results for convergence lead to poor estimates. We show how to improve such estimates with the use of weighted Sobolev spaces together with a mesh “a priori adapted” to the singularity. For the H1 or L2-norms, we...
In this paper, we concern ourselves with uniqueness results for an elliptic-parabolic quasilinear partial differential equation describing, for instance, the pressure of a fluid in a three-dimensional porous medium: within the frame of mathematical modeling of the secondary recovery from oil fields, the handling of the component conservation laws leads to a system including such a pressure equation, locally elliptic or parabolic according to the evolution of the gas phase.
We show that the critical nonlinear elliptic Neumann problem in , in , on , where is a bounded and smooth domain in , has arbitrarily many solutions, provided that is small enough. More precisely, for any positive integer , there exists such that for , the above problem has a nontrivial solution which blows up at interior points in , as . The location of the blow-up points is related to the domain geometry. The solutions are obtained as critical points of some finite-dimensional...