Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)

Abstract: The large time $t$ asymptotics for scalar, constant coefficient,linear, third order, dispersive equations are obtained for asymptotically time-periodic Dirichlet boundary data and zero initial data on the half-line modeling a wavemaker acting upon an initially quiescent medium. The asymptotic Dirichlet-to-Neumann (D-N) map is constructed by expanding upon the recently developed $Q$-equation method. The D-N map is proven to be unique if and only if the radiation condition that selects the unique wavenumber branch of the dispersion relation for a sinusoidal, time-dependent boundary condition holds: (i) for frequencies in a finite interval, the wavenumber is real and corresponds to positive group velocity, (ii) for frequencies outside the interval, the wavenumber is complex with positive imaginary part. For fixed spatial location $x$, the corresponding asymptotic solution is (i) a traveling wave or (ii) a spatially decaying, time-periodic wave. Uniform-in-$x$ asymptotic solutions for the physical cases of the linearized Korteweg-de Vries and Benjamin-Bona-Mahony (BBM) equations are obtained via integral asymptotics. The linearized BBM asymptotics are found to quantitatively agree with viscous core-annular fluid experiments.

Abstract: In our manuscript, we develop a new approach for stability analysis of one-dimensional wave equation with time delay. The major contribution of our work is to develop a new method for spectral analysis. We derive sufficient and necessary conditions for the feedback gain and time delay which guarantee the exponential stability of the closed-loop system. Comparing with similar conditions developed in the past literatures, we discuss all the situation when the time delay is positive, including when it is irrational. We prove that the exponential stability can be achieved if and only if the time delay is an even number. We also get the general formula term of the stability region of the coupling gain for different even multiples of time delay, and from this we easily obtain the shrink of the stability region as time delay increases. In addition, we explore the impact of slight perturbations in time delay on high frequency robustness.

Abstract: We give sharp conditions for global in time existence of gradient flow solutions to a Cahn-Hilliard-type equation, with backwards second order degenerate diffusion, in any dimension and for general initial data. Our equation is the 2-Wasserstein gradient flow of a free energy with two competing effects: the Dirichlet energy and the power-law internal energy. Homogeneity of the functionals reveals critical regimes that we analyse. Sharp conditions for global in time solutions, constructed via the minimising movement scheme, also known as JKO scheme, are obtained. Furthermore, we study a system of two Cahn-Hilliard-type equations exhibiting an analogous gradient flow structure.

Abstract: This work deals with a chemotaxis model where an external source involving a sub and superquadratic growth effect contrasted by nonlocal dampening reaction influences the motion of a cell density attracted by a chemical signal. We study the mechanism of the two densities once their initial configurations are fixed in bounded impenetrable regions; in the specific, we establish that no gathering effect for the cells can appear in time provided that the dampening effect is strong enough.

Abstract: We establish a partial regularity result for solutions of parabolic systems with general $\varphi$-growth, where $\varphi$ is an Orlicz function. In this setting we can develop a unified approach that is independent of the degeneracy of system and relies on two caloric approximation results: the $\varphi$-caloric approximation, which was introduced in Diening, Schwarzacher, Stroffolini and Verde (2017) (arXiv:1606.01706), and an improved version of the \mathcal{A}-caloric approximation, which we prove without using the classical compactness method.

Abstract: We investigate some effects of the lack of compactness in the critical Sobolev embedding by proving that a famous conjecture of Brezis & Peletier (Essays in honor of Ennio De Giorgi -- Progr. Differ. Equ. Appl. 1989) does still hold in the Heisenberg framework: optimal functions for a natural subcritical approximations of the Sobolev quotient concentrate energy at one point which can be localized via the Green function associated to the involved domain and in clear accordance with the underlying sub-Riemannian geometry -- and consequently a new suitable definition of domains geometrical regular near their characteristic set is given. In order to achieve the aforementioned result, we need to combine proper estimates and tools to attack the related CR Yamabe equation (Jerison & Lee, J. Diff. Geom. 1987) with novel feasible ingredients in PDEs and Calculus of Variations which also aim to constitute general independent results in the Heisenberg framework, as e.g. a fine asymptotic control of the optimal functions via the Jerison & Lee extremals realizing the equality in the critical Sobolev inequality (J. Amer. Math. Soc. 1988).