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Local existence, uniqueness, and smooth dependence for nonsmooth quasilinear parabolic problems
2009, Griepentrog, Jens André, Recke, Lutz
A general theory on local existence, uniqueness, regularity, and smooth dependence in Hölder spaces for a general class of quasilinear parabolic initial boundary value problems with nonsmooth data has been developed. As a result the gap between low smoothness of the data, which is typical for many applications, and high smoothness of the solutions, which is necessary for the applicability of differential calculus to the abstract formulations of the initial boundary value problems, has been closed. The main tools are new maximal regularity results of the first author in Sobolev-Morrey spaces, linearization techniques and the Implicit Function Theorem. Typical applications are transport processes of charged particles in semiconductor heterostructures, phase separation processes of nonlocally interacting particles, chemotactic aggregation in heterogeneous environments as well as optimal control by means of quasilinear elliptic and parabolic PDEs with nonsmooth data.
Exponential asymptotic stability via Krein-Rutman theorem for singularly perturbed parabolic periodic Dirichlet problems
2008, Nefedov, Nikolai N., Recke, Lutz, Schneider, Klaus R.
We consider singularly perturbed semilinear parabolic periodic problems and assume the existence of a family of solutions. We present an approach to establish the exponential asymptotic stability of these solutions by means of a special class of lower and upper solutions. The proof is based on a corollary of the Krein-Rutman theorem.
Time-periodic boundary layer solutions to singularly perturbed parabolic problems
2016, Omelchenko, Oleh, Recke, Lutz, Butuzov, Valentin, Nefedov, Nikolay
In this paper, we present a result of implicit function theorem type, which was designed for applications to singularly perturbed problems. This result is based on fixed point iterations for contractive mappings, in particular, no monotonicity or sign preservation properties are needed. Then we apply our abstract result to time-periodic boundary layer solutions (which are allowed to be non-monotone with respect to the space variable) in semilinear parabolic problems with two independent singular perturbation parameters. We prove existence and local uniqueness of those solutions, and estimate their distance to certain approximate solutions.
On existence and asymptotic stability of periodic solutions with an interior layer of reaction-advection-diffusion equations
2012, Nefedov, Nikolai N., Recke, Lutz, Schneider, Klaus R.
We consider a singularly perturbed parabolic periodic boundary value problem for a reaction-advection-diffusion equation. We construct the interior layer type formal asymptotics and propose a modified procedure to get asymptotic lower and upper solutions. By using sufficiently precise lower and upper solutions, we prove the existence of a periodic solution with an interior layer and estimate the accuracy of its asymptotics. Moreover, we are able to establish the asymptotic stability of this solution with interior layer.
Existence, local uniqueness and asymptotic approximation of spike solutions to singularly perturbed elliptic problems
2011, Omel'chenko, Oleh, Recke, Lutz
This paper concerns general singularly perturbed second order semilinear elliptic equations on bounded domains $Omega subset R^n$ with nonlinear natural boundary conditions. The equations are not necessarily of variational type. We describe an algorithm to construct sequences of approximate spike solutions, we prove existence and local uniqueness of exact spike solutions close to the approximate ones (using an Implicit Function Theorem type result), and we estimate the distance between the approximate and the exact solutions. Here ''spike solution'' means that there exists a point in $Omega$ such that the solution has a spike-like shape in a vicinity of such point and that the solution is approximately zero away from this point. The spike shape is not radially symmetric in general and may change sign.
Asymptotics for the spectrum of a thin film equation in a singular limit
2010, Kitavtsev, Georgy, Recke, Lutz, Wagner, Barbara
In this paper the linear stability properties of the steady states of a no-slip lubrication equation are studied. The steady states are configurations of droplets and arise during the late-phase dewetting process under the influence of both destabilizing van der Waals and stabilizing Born intermolecular forces, which in turn give rise to the minimum thickness eps of the remaining film connecting the droplets. The goal of this paper is to give an asymptotic description of the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the problem, linearized about the one-droplet solutions, as epsto 0. For this purpose, corresponding asymptotic eigenvalue problems with piecewise constant coefficients are constructed, such that their eigenvalue asymptotics can be determined analytically. A comparison with numerically computed eigenvalues and eigenfunctions shows good agreement with the asymptotic results and the existence of a spectrum gap to a single exponentially small eigenvalue for sufficiently small eps.
Center manifold reduction approach for the lubrication equation
2010, Kitavtsev, Georgy, Recke, Lutz, Wagner, Barbara
The goal of this study is the reduction of the lubrication equation, modelling thin film dynamics, onto an approximate invariant manifold. The reduction is derived for the physical situation of the late phase evolution of a dewetting thin liquid film, where arrays of droplets connected by an ultrathin film of thickness eps undergo a slow-time coarsening dynamics. With this situation in mind, we construct an asymptotic approximation of the corresponding invariant manifold, that is parametrized by a family of droplet pressures and positions, in the limit when $epsto 0$. The approach is inspired by the paper by Mielke and Zelik [Mem. Amer. Math. Soc., Vol. 198, 2009], where the center manifold reduction was carried out for a class of semilinear systems. In this study this approach is considered for quasilinear degenerate parabolic PDE's such as lubrication equations. While it has previously been shown by Glasner and Witelski [Phys. Rev. E, Vol. 67, 2003], that the system of ODEs governing the coarsening dynamics, can be obtained via formal asymptotic methods, the center manifold reduction approach presented here, pursues the rigorous justification of this asymptotic limit.
On a singularly perturbed initial value problem in case of a double root of the degenerate equation
2012, Butuzov, Valentin F., Nefedov, Nikolai N., Recke, Lutz, Schneider, Klaus R.
We study the initial value problem of a singularly perturbed first order ordinary differential equation in case that the degenerate equation has a double root. We construct the formal asymptotic expansion of the solution such that the boundary layer functions decay exponentially. This requires a modification of the standard procedure. The asymptotic solution will be used to construct lower and upper solutions guaranteeing the existence of a unique solution and justifying its asymptotic expansion.
Existence and asymptotic stability of a periodic solution with boundary layers of reaction-diffusion equations with singularly perturbed Neumann boundary conditions
2013, Butuzov, Valentin F., Nefedov, Nikolai N., Recke, Lutz, Schneider, Klaus R.
We consider singularly perturbed reaction-diffusion equations with singularly perturbed Neumann boundary conditions. We establish the existence of a time-periodic solution u(x; t; epsilon) with boundary layers and derive conditions for their asymptotic stability The boundary layer part of u(x; t; ") is of order one, which distinguishes our case from the case of regularly perturbed Neumann boundary conditions, where the boundary layer is of order epsilon.
Asymptotics and stability of a periodic solution to a singularly perturbed parabolic problem in case of a double root of the degenerate equation
2015, Butuzov, Valentin F., Nefedov, Nikolai N., Recke, Lutz, Schneider, Klaus R.
For a singularly perturbed parabolic problem with Dirichlet conditions we prove the existence of a solution periodic in time and with boundary layers at both ends of the space interval in the case that the degenerate equation has a double root. We construct the corresponding asymptotic expansion in the small parameter. It turns out that the algorithm of the construction of the boundary layer functions and the behavior of the solution in the boundary layers essentially differ from that ones in case of a simple root. We also investigate the stability of this solution and the corresponding region of attraction.