Moving Surfaces and Abstract Parabolic Evolution Equations
Moving Surfaces and Abstract Parabolic Evolution Equations
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移动表面和抽象抛物线演化方程
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-0348-8765-6_10
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发表时间:
1999
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通讯作者:
G. Simonett
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作者:
J. Escher;G. Simonett
It is the purpose of this paper to give a survey over some recent developments in the theory of classical solutions to elliptic and parabolic problems involving moving surfaces. Problems of this type do not satisfy a superposition principle for solutions and, hence, carry an inherent nonlinear structure. In fact, it turns out that most of the equations describing the evolution of surfaces are of quasilinear or even of fully nonlinear type. Additionally, these equations are often of a nonlocal nature.From a mathematical point of view it therefore seems tempting-as a first step in the analysis-to look for weak solutions to these nonlinear equations. In many applications, however, the corresponding mathematical model is obtained under the assumption of the existence of a sharp and smooth surface or moving boundary. Of course, one can try to follow a two-step procedure of first constructing weak solutions and then, in a second step, analyzing the actual regularity of a weak solution. Both steps are often closely tied to a comparison principle. Rence, for problems without the luxury of a comparison or maximum principle the above program is not at all obvious to realize. We mention the quasi-stationary Stefan problem with surface tension, the Mullins-Sekerka model, or the surface diffusion flow which do not satisfy a comparison principle. For these problems neither existence of (even weak) solutions nor uniqueness of (even classical) solutions was established until quite recently, see [34, 35, 36, 40, 20, 21, 22]. On the other hand, there are moving boundary problems for which one can guarantee existence of weak solutions (eg the Rele-Shaw flow without surface tension, the Stefan problem with Gibbs-Thomson corrections) but for which the actual regularity of weak solutions is still far from being understood. There is a different approach to problems with moving surfaces in which one seeks a unique classical solution from the very beginning. In this approach one
DOI:
10.1007/978-94-009-1926-6
发表时间:
1990-03
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作者:
Jacob Bear;Y. Bachmat
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Jacob Bear;Y. Bachmat