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Reference request: Parabolic Equations
I am a PhD student working mainly on Elliptic Equations. With the other PhDs of my department, we organised a reading group, meaning that we agreed on a book we were all interested in, we meet weekly ...
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Solution to $u_t = A(t)u + f(t)$ on bounded domain
I am dealing with the problem
\begin{align}u_t &= \nabla \cdot (a(x,t) \nabla u) + f(x,t) &\text{ on } \Omega \times (0,T)\\
\partial_{\nu} u &= 0 &\text{ on } \partial \Omega \...
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1
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Periodicity and Burger's equation
Consider the 1-dimensional Burger's equation on a finite interval $I=(0,1)$,
$$u_t+uu_x=u_{xx}$$
with initial condition
$$u(x,0)=f(x)$$
and boundary conditions
$$u(0,t)=A(t) \qquad u(1,t)=B(t).$$
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Heat Flows and spatial singularities
While working on an abstract problem, I came up with the following question:
Let $\Omega_1 := \mathrm B(-1, 1)$ and $\Omega_2 := \mathrm B(1, 1)$, where $\mathrm B(x, r) \subseteq \mathbb R^2$ denotes ...
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On the derivatives of the solutions of the heat equations with Neumann boundary condition
Let $\Omega$ be a smooth domain with compact closure. More precisely, $\Omega$ is a $C^\infty$ domain. We write $\partial \Omega$ for the boundary of $\Omega$, and denote by $n$ the inward unit ...
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Elliptic regularity when the Lagrangian is possibly infinite
I want to solve variational problems of the form
$$\inf_u \int_{-1}^1 \phi(u'(x)) \text{ with } u(-1)=u(1) = 0,$$
where $\phi(p)$ is convex and is allowed to take on the value $+\infty$ for some ...
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Mean value formula for fractional heat equation
For the solution $u(z) = u(t,x)$ of the heat equation $u_t -\Delta u = 0$ we have
$$u(z_0) = \int_{\Omega_r(z_0)}u(z) K_r(z_0-z) dz,$$
where $$\Omega_r(z_0) = \left\{z \in \mathbb{R}^{N+1}: \Gamma(z_0-...
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Existence and uniqueness for fractional parabolic equation with transport term
Let us consider the problem
\begin{equation}
\begin{cases}
u_t+(-\Delta)^{\sigma}u+\mathrm{div}(a(t,x)u) = 0 & \text{in } \mathbb{R}^n \times [0, T) \\
u(x,0)=u_0(x) & \text{in } \...
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Rigorous energy estimate for advection-diffusion equation
Let $a \in L^q([0,T];L^p(\mathbb R^N))$ with $2/q + N/p \le 1$ and
$q \in [2,\infty), p \in (N,\infty) \text{ if } N \ge 2$
$q \in [2,4], p \in [2,\infty] \text{ if } N = 1$
and consider the ...
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Very weak solution to parabolic PDE (pointwise a.e. in time with time derivative on test function)
Consider the parabolic PDE
$$u' + Au = 0$$
as an equality in $L^2(0,T;V^*)$ for some Hilbert space $V$ with $A\colon L^2(0,T;V) \to L^2(0,T;V^*)$ a coercive, bounded linear operator. Here $u'$ is the ...
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Existence and uniqueness for semilinear problem
Consider the following problem:
$$-\Delta u + [(u)^+]^\alpha = 0,$$
where $(\cdot)^+$ is the positive part function and $\alpha >0$. How does the theory of monotone operators provide existence ...
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1
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Continuous embedding between parabolic Sobolev spaces
I was wondering whether the following continuous embedding theorem for parabolic Sobolev space is correct?
Let $I=[0,T]$ and $\Omega$ be a sufficiently smooth domain in $\mathbb{R}^n$, we consider ...
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Existence and uniqueness for reaction-diffusion equations
I am interested in the following PDE on a $d$-dimensional torus $\mathbb{T}^d$
\begin{align*}
&\partial_tu(t,x) = \Delta u(t,x) +f(u(t,x),t,x),\\
& u(0)=u_0\in L_2
\end{align*}
where the ...
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Decay estimate for the heat equation: $\sup_{t>0}\int_{\mathbb{R}} t^\alpha |u_x|^2\ dx$
Let $u$ be a solution of the heat equation $$u_t - u_{xx} = 0, \quad t>0, x \in \mathbb{R}$$
with initial data $u(0,\cdot) = u_0$.
Fix $\alpha >0$. How can I estimate (without using explicitly ...
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Reference request: $|\partial_t u - \Delta u|\in L^p(\Omega^T)$ implies Holder estimate
I am currently reading a paper regarding harmonic flow between Riemannian manifolds. Let $\Omega$ be a Riemannian domain of dimension $2$, $\Omega^T=\Omega\times[0,T]$. The equation is
$$
\partial_t ...
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Boundary regularity of solutions to semilinear heat equation
Consider the Cauchy IVP problem
$$u_t - \Delta u + f(t,x,u) = 0, \quad (t,x) \in (0,T) \times \mathbb{R}^n,$$
with initial condition $u(0,x) = g(x), \ x \in \mathbb{R}^n.$
Can you point out a ...
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Lyapunov stability for nonlinear PDEs
Where can I find a theorem about Lyapunov stability for the equation in Hilbert space?
$$
y' = Fy,
$$
where $F : V \to V'$ is a nonlinear operator , $y' \in L^2(0,T,V')$, $V$ is a Hilbert space.
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The Cauchy problem associated with $u_t^\epsilon + H(x,t,u^\epsilon,\nabla u^\epsilon) = \epsilon\Delta u^\epsilon$
Consider the initial value problem $$\begin{cases} u_t^\epsilon + H(x,t,u^\epsilon,\nabla_x u^\epsilon) = \epsilon\Delta_x u^\epsilon & \text{ in } \mathbb{R}^n \times (0,\infty)\\ u^\epsilon = g &...
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Positivity of generalised heat kernels
Let $K_\alpha(t,x)$ be the (generalised or fractional) heat kernel which corresponds to the fractional heat equation (I'm not sure that's the right name) in $\mathbb R^n$
$$
u_t=(-\Delta)^\alpha u, \...
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Reference for a Heat Process in a Wedge
I would like to ask about an explicit suggestion/reference for the following type of heat processes:
Roughly, assume we have a "wedge" $W$ of the following form - a domain in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with a ...
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Real analyticity of solution of heat equation
Consider the heat equation $\partial_t u - \Delta u = 0, u(0, x) = u_0$ on a complete (non-compact) Riemannian manifold $M$, may be even $\mathbb{R}^n$. I was wondering, what are some known sufficient ...
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Existence of solution to weak form of linear equation with boundary integral (parabolic PDE)
Let $W(0,T) := \{ u \in L^2(0,T;H^{\frac 12}(\partial\Omega)) \mid u_t \in L^2(0,T;H^{-\frac{1}{2}}(\partial\Omega))\}$. Let $\gamma$ and $\xi$ denote the trace map and its right inverse.
Does there ...
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Reference for existence results for 2D forced viscous Burgers equation
I am looking for results concering the following parabolic PDE
$$u\cdot\nabla u + \Delta u = F(x),$$
where $$u\colon\Omega\to\mathbb{R}^2,$$ and $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^2$ is a 2D domain (bounded or ...
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A parabolic PDE with Lipschitz nonlinearity, how to obtain well-posedness?
Let $\Omega$ be a bounded smooth domain in $\mathbb{R}^n$ (or more generally a compact manifold). I'm interested in well-posedness (existence most importantly) of equations of the form
$$u_t(t) - \...