The Asymptotics of the Heat Equation for a Boundary Value Problem.
We examine the Dirichlet problem for the Poisson equation and the heat equation in weighted spaces of Kondrat'ev's type on a dihedral domain. The weight is a power of the distance from a distinguished axis and it depends on the order of the derivative. We also prove a priori estimates.
When a permanent magnet is released above a superconductor, it is levitated. This is due to the Meissner-effect, i.e. the repulsion of external magnetic fields within the superconductor. In experiments, an interesting behavior of the levitated magnet can be observed: it might start to oscillate with increasing amplitude and some magnets even reach a continuous rotation. In this paper we develop a mathematical model for this effect and identify by analytical methods as well with finite element simulations...
In this short note, we hope to give a rapid induction for non-experts into the world of Differential Harnack inequalities, which have been so influential in geometric analysis and probability theory over the past few decades. At the coarsest level, these are often mysterious-looking inequalities that hold for ‘positive’ solutions of some parabolic PDE, and can be verified quickly by grinding out a computation and applying a maximum principle. In this note we emphasise the geometry behind the Harnack...
I shall discuss joint work with John L. Lewis on the solvability of boundary value problems for the heat equation in non-cylindrical (i.e., time-varying) domains, whose boundaries are in some sense minimally smooth in both space and time. The emphasis will be on the Neumann problem with data in . A somewhat surprising feature of our results is that, in contrast to the cylindrical case, the optimal results hold when , with the situation getting progressively worse as approaches . In particular,...