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We propose to combine the Carleman estimate and the Newton method to solve an inverse source problem for nonlinear parabolic equations from lateral boundary data. The stability of this inverse source problem is conditionally logarithmic.…
Theoretical studies on linear shear instabilities often use simple velocity and density profiles (e.g. constant, piecewise) for obtaining good qualitative and quantitative predictions of the initial disturbances. Furthermore, such simple…
Previously it has been shown that imposing a Petrov-like boundary condition on a hypersurface may reduce the Einstein equation to the incompressible Navier-Stokes equation, but all these correspondences are established in the near horizon…
We present a waveform relaxation version of the Dirichlet-Neumann and Neumann-Neumann methods for parabolic problems. Like the Dirichlet-Neumann method for steady problems, the method is based on a non-overlapping spatial domain…
In this study, a shape optimization problem for the two-dimensional stationary Navier--Stokes equations with an artificial boundary condition is considered. The fluid is assumed to be flowing through a rectangular channel, and the…
A class of diffusion driven Free Boundary Problems is considered which is characterized by the initial onset of a phase and by an explicit kinematic condition for the evolution of the free boundary. By a domain fixing change of variables it…
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A new method is introduced for studying boundary value problems for a class of linear PDEs with {\it variable} coefficients. This method is based on ideas recently introduced by the author for the study of boundary value problems for PDEs…
We propose methods that augment existing numerical schemes for the simulation of hyperbolic balance laws with Dirichlet boundary conditions to allow for the simulation of a broad class of differential algebraic conditions. Our approach is…
In this paper, we generalize White's regularity and structure theory for mean-convex mean curvature flow to the setting with free boundary. A major new challenge in the free boundary setting is to derive an a priori bound for the ratio…
The equilibrium shapes of vesicles are governed by the general shape equation which is derived from the minimization of the Helfrich elastic free energy and can be reduced to the Willmore equation in a special case. The general shape…
We introduce new results about the shape derivatives of scalar- and vector-valued functions, extending the results from (Dogan-Nochetto 2012) to more general surface energies. They consider surface energies defined as integrals over…
We consider the free boundary problem for the incompressible elastodynamics equations. At the free boundary moving with the velocity of the fluid particles the columns of the deformation gradient are tangent to the boundary and the pressure…
In this paper we study one dimensional parabolic free boundary value problem with a nonlocal (integro-differential) condition on the free boundary. We establish global existence-uniqueness of classical solutions assuming that the…
In this paper, we investigate the existence of nontrivial weak solutions for the Prandtl-Batchelor type free boundary value elliptic problem driven by a power nonlinearity. The algebraic topology approach will be used to establish the…
This paper sets up an approach for shape optimization problems constrained by variational inequalities (VI) in an appropriate shape space. In contrast to classical VI, where no explicit dependence on the domain is given, VI constrained…
An asymptotic analysis of the Gunn effect in two-dimensional samples of bulk n-GaAs with circular contacts is presented. A moving pulse far from contacts is approximated by a moving free boundary separating regions where the electric…
We study the exterior and interior Bernoulli problems for the half Laplacian and the interior Bernoulli problem for the spectral half Laplacian. We concentrate on the existence and geometric properties of solutions. Our main results are the…
A finite difference numerical method is investigated for fractional order diffusion problems in one space dimension. For this, a mathematical model is developed to incorporate homogeneous Dirichlet and Neumann type boundary conditions. The…