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We propose an edge averaged finite element(EAFE) discretization to solve the Heat-PNP (Poisson-Nernst-Planck) equations approximately. Our method enforces positivity of the computed charged density functions and temperature function. Also…
We study the Lane-Emden problem \[\begin{cases} -\Delta u_p =|u_p|^{p-1}u_p&\text{in}\quad \Omega, u_p=0 &\text{on}\quad\partial\Omega, \end{cases}\] where $\Omega\subset\mathbb R^2$ is a smooth bounded domain and $p>1$ is sufficiently…
The variational and diffusion quantum Monte Carlo methods are used to calculate the correlation energy of the paramagnetic three-dimensional homogeneous electron gas at intermediate to high density. Ground state energies in finite cells are…
Methods for studying droplets in models with quenched disorder are critically examined. Low energy excitations in two dimensional models are investigated by finding minimal energy interior excitations and by computing the effect of bulk…
In this article I study different possibilities of analytically solving the Sturm-Liouville problem with variable coefficients of sufficiently arbitrary behavior with help of perturbation theory. I show how the problem can be reformulated…
We consider the problem of minimising the $L^\infty$ norm of a function of the hessian over a class of maps, subject to a mass constraint involving the $L^\infty$ norm of a function of the gradient and the map itself. We assume zeroth and…
We prove a conjecture which was recently formulated by Maia, Montefusco, Pellacci saying that minimal energy solutions of the saturated nonlinear Schr\"odinger system \begin{align*} - \Delta u + \lambda_1 u &= \frac{\alpha u(\alpha…
In this paper, we search for normalized solutions to a fractional, nonlinear, and possibly strongly sublinear Schr\"odinger equation $$(-\Delta)^s u + \mu u = g(u) \quad \hbox{in $\mathbb{R}^N$},$$ under the mass constraint…
We present a numerical method for the velocity-space, spatially homogeneous, collisional Boltzmann equation for electron transport in low-temperature plasma (LTP) conditions. Modeling LTP plasmas is useful in many applications, including…
Energy conserving particle-in-cell schemes are constructed for a class of reduced relativistic Vlasov--Maxwell equations of laser-plasma interaction. Discrete Poisson equation is also satisfied by the numerical solution. Specifically,…
The aim of this paper is to state and prove existence and uniqueness results for a general elliptic problem with homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions, often associated with image processing tasks like denoising. The novelty is that we…
We study weak solutions and minimizers $u$ of the non-autonomous problems $\operatorname{div} A(x, Du)=0$ and $\min_v \int_\Omega F(x,Dv)\,dx$ with quasi-isotropic $(p, q)$-growth. We consider the case that $u$ is bounded, H\"older…
A highly nonlinear eigenvalue problem is studied in a Sobolev space with variable exponent. The Euler-Lagrange equation for the minimization of a Rayleigh quotient of two Luxemburg norms is derived. The asymptotic case with a "variable…
We present some regularity results on the gradient of the weak or entropic-renormalized solution $u$ to the homogeneous Dirichlet problem for the quasilinear equations of the form \begin{equation*}\label{p-laplacian_eq} -{\rm div~}(|\nabla…
We study existence, unicity and other geometric properties of the minimizers of the energy functional $$ \|u\|^2_{H^s(\Omega)}+\int_\Omega W(u)\,dx, $$ where $\|u\|_{H^s(\Omega)}$ denotes the total contribution from $\Omega$ in the $H^s$…
We generalize the fractional variational problem by allowing the possibility that the lower bound in the fractional derivative does not coincide with the lower bound of the integral that is minimized. Also, for the standard case when these…
In [12], the authors studied a particular class of equilibrium solutions of the Helfrich energy which satisfy a second order condition called the reduced membrane equation. In this paper we develop and apply a second variation formula for…
We calculate two-point energy level correlation function in weakly disorderd metallic grain with taking account of localization corrections to the universal random matrix result. Using supersymmetric nonlinear sigma model and exactly…
In this paper, we study the following logarithmic Schr\"{o}dinger equation \[ -\Delta u+\lambda a(x)u=u\log u^2\ \ \ \ \mbox{ in }V \] on a connected locally finite graph $G=(V,E)$, where $\Delta$ denotes the graph Laplacian, $\lambda > 0$…