Related papers: The damped wave equation and associated polymer
We set up an SPDE model for a moving, weakly self-avoiding polymer with intrinsic length $J$ taking values in $(0,\infty)$. Our main result states that the effective radius of the polymer is approximately $J^{5/3}$; evidently for large $J$…
We present a discrete space-time stochastic partial differential equation (SPDE) model to describe the dynamics of a weakly self-avoiding polymer with intrinsic length $J$. By introducing a penalty factor tailored to the discrete setting,…
In this paper, we consider a semi-linear stochastic strongly damped wave equation driven by additive Gaussian noise. Following a semigroup framework, we establish existence, uniqueness and space-time regularity of a mild solution to such…
A parameter estimation problem is considered for a one-dimensional stochastic wave equation driven by additive space-time Gaussian white noise. The estimator is of spectral type and utilizes a finite number of the spatial Fourier…
We construct unique martingale solutions to the damped stochastic wave equation $$ \mu \frac{\partial^2u}{\partial t^2}(t,x)=\Delta u(t,x)-\frac{\partial u}{\partial t}(t,x)+b(t,x,u(t,x))+\sigma(t,x,u(t,x))\frac{dW_t}{dt},$$ where $\Delta$…
We calculate exactly the velocity and diffusion constant of a microscopic stochastic model of $N$ evolving particles which can be described by a noisy traveling wave equation with a noise of order $N^{-1/2}$. Our model can be viewed as the…
We consider the numerical approximation of the mild solution to a semilinear stochastic wave equation driven by additive noise. For the spatial approximation we consider a standard finite element method and for the temporal approximation, a…
In this paper we present new results on the preservation of polynomial stability of damped wave equations under addition of perturbing terms. We in particular introduce sufficient conditions for the stability of perturbed two-dimensional…
This paper concerns estimates of the lifespan of solutions to the semilinear damped wave equation. We give upper estimates of the lifespan for the semilinear damped wave equation with variable coefficients in all space dimensions.
We prove local energy decay for the damped wave equation on R^d. The problem which we consider is given by a long range metric perturbation of the Euclidean Laplacian with a short range absorption index. Under a geometric control assumption…
This paper is concerned with the study of the wave equation on compact surfaces and locally distributed damping. We study the case where the damping is effective in a well-chosen subset of arbitrarily small measure.
In this paper we analyze a semilinear abstract damped wave-type equation with time delay. We assume that the delay feedback coefficient is variable in time and belonging to $L^1_{loc}([0, +\infty)).$ Under suitable assumptions, we show…
Let $M$ be a compact Riemannian homogeneous space (e.g. a Euclidean sphere). We prove existence of a global weak solution of the stochastic wave equation \mathbf D_t\partial_tu=\sum_{k=1}^d\mathbf…
We study the long time statistics of a class of semi--linear wave equations modeling the motions of a particle suspended in continuous media while being subjected to random perturbations via an additive Gaussian noise. By comparison with…
We study the asymptotic behavior of solutions for the semilinear damped wave equation with variable coefficients. We prove that if the damping is effective, and the nonlinearity and other lower order terms can be regarded as perturbations,…
We consider the linear stochastic wave equation with spatially homogenous Gaussian noise, which is fractional in time with index $H>1/2$. We show that the necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of the solution is a relaxation…
We calculate the mean end-to-end distance ($R$) of a self-avoiding polymer encapsulated in an infinitely long cylinder with radius $D$. A self-consistent perturbation theory is used to calculate $R$ as a function of $D$ for impenetrable…
A weak formulation for the so-called "semilinear strongly damped wave equation with constraint" is introduced and a corresponding notion of solution is defined. The main idea in this approach consists in the use of duality techniques in…
In this paper, a fractional generalization of the wave equation that describes propagation of damped waves is considered. In contrast to the fractional diffusion-wave equation, the fractional wave equation contains fractional derivatives of…
We prove integrated local energy decay for solutions of the damped wave equation with time-dependent damping satisfying an appropriate generalization of the geometric control condition on asymptotically flat, stationary space-times. We…