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This paper considers the Dirichlet problem $$ -\mathrm{div}(a\nabla u_a)=f \quad \hbox{on}\,\,\ D, \qquad u_a=0\quad \hbox{on}\,\,\partial D, $$ for a Lipschitz domain $D\subset \mathbb R^d$, where $a$ is a scalar diffusion function. For a…
The linearized, compressible Navier-Stokes equations can be used to model acoustic wave propagation in the presence of viscous and thermal boundary layers. However, acoustic boundary layers are notorious for invoking prohibitively high…
We prove the existence and uniqueness of strong solutions to the steady isentropic compressible Navier-Stokes equations with inflow boundary conditions for density and mixed boundary conditions for the velocity around a shear flow. In…
For the Helmholtz equation posed in the exterior of a Dirichlet obstacle, we prove that if there exists a family of quasimodes (as is the case when the exterior of the obstacle has stable trapped rays), then there exist near-zero…
This paper is concerned with resolvent estimates on the real axis for the Helmholtz equation posed in the exterior of a bounded obstacle with Dirichlet boundary conditions when the obstacle is trapping. There are two resolvent estimates for…
We prove smoothing estimates for Schr\"odinger equations $i\partial_t \phi+\partial_x (a(x) \partial_x \phi) =0$ with $a(x)\in \mathrm{BV}$, the space of functions with bounded total variation, real, positive and bounded from below. We then…
Olver and Rosenau studied group-invariant solutions of (generally nonlinear) partial differential equations through the imposition of a side condition. We apply a similar idea to the special case of finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems,…
We consider one-level additive Schwarz domain decomposition preconditioners for the Helmholtz equation with variable coefficients (modelling wave propagation in heterogeneous media), subject to boundary conditions that include wave…
We consider second-order uniformly elliptic operators subject to Dirichlet boundary conditions. Such operators are considered on a bounded domain $\Omega$ and on the domain $\phi(\Omega)$ resulting from $\Omega$ by means of a bi-Lipschitz…
In this article we consider variable coefficient, time dependent wave equations in exterior domains. We prove localized energy estimates if the domain is star-shaped and global in time Strichartz estimates if the domain is strictly convex.
The goal of this article is to establish general principles for high frequency dispersive estimates for Maxwell's equation in the exterior of a perfectly conducting ball. We construct entirely new generalized eigenfunctions for the…
The solvability in Sobolev spaces is proved for divergence form second order elliptic equations in the whole space, a half space, and a bounded Lipschitz domain. For equations in the whole space or a half space, the leading coefficients…
We propose an analytic perturbative scheme for determining the eigenvalues of the Helmholtz equation, $(\nabla^2 + k^2) \psi = 0$, in three dimensions with an arbitrary boundary where $\psi$ satisfies either the Dirichlet boundary condition…
In this paper, we investigate 1D elliptic equations $-\nabla\cdot (a\nabla u)=f$ with rough diffusion coefficients $a$ that satisfy $0<a_{\min}\le a\le a_{\max}<\infty$ and $f\in L_2(\Omega)$. To achieve an accurate and robust numerical…
We prove localized energy estimates for the wave equation in domains with a strictly concave boundary when homogeneous Dirichlet or Neumann conditions are imposed. By restricting the solution to small, frequency dependent, space time…
This paper considers the Helmholtz problem in the exterior of a ball with Dirichlet boundary conditions and radiation conditions imposed at infinity. The differential Helmholtz operator depends on the complex wavenumber with non-negative…
We prove, under the exterior geometric control condition, the Kato smoothing effect for solutions of an inhomogenous and damped Schr\"odinger equation on exterior domains.
We study the time-harmonic scattering by a heterogeneous object covered with a thin layer of randomly distributed sound-soft nanoparticles. The size of the particles, their distance between each other and the layer's thickness are all of…
The strong convergence of Euler approximations of stochastic delay differential equations is proved under general conditions. The assumptions on drift and diffusion coefficients have been relaxed to include polynomial growth and only…
We establish a mixed-norm Strichartz type estimate for the wave equation on Riemannian manifolds $(\Omega,g)$, for the case that $\Omega$ is the exterior of a smooth, normally hyperbolic trapped obstacle in $n$ dimensional Euclidean space,…