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Recent Advances in Reaction-Diffusion Equations with Non-Ideal Relays

Analysis of PDEs 2015-08-11 v1

Abstract

We survey recent results on reaction-diffusion equations with discontinuous hysteretic nonlinearities. We connect these equations with free boundary problems and introduce a related notion of spatial transversality for initial data and solutions. We assert that the equation with transverse initial data possesses a unique solution, which remains transverse for some time, and also describe its regularity. At a moment when the solution becomes nontransverse, we discretize the spatial variable and analyze the resulting lattice dynamical system with hysteresis. In particular, we discuss a new pattern formation mechanism --- {\it rattling}, which indicates how one should reset the continuous model to make it well posed.

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@article{arxiv.1508.02233,
  title  = {Recent Advances in Reaction-Diffusion Equations with Non-Ideal Relays},
  author = {Mark Curran and Pavel Gurevich and Sergey Tikhomirov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.02233},
  year   = {2015}
}

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24 pages, 12 figures

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