Energy decay rate for a von Karman system with a boundary nonlinear delay term

In this paper, we show the energy decay rate for a von Karman system with a boundary nonlinear delay term. This work is devoted to investigate the influence of kernel function $g$ and the effect of the boundary nonlinear term ${\mu }_1{\left|u_t\left(t\right)\right|}^{m?1}{u}_t\left(t\right)$, a boundary nonlinear time delay term ${\mu }_2{\left|u_t(t?\tau )\right|}^{m?1}{u}_t(t?\tau )$ and prove energy decay rates of solutions when $g$ do not necessarily decay exponentially and the boundary condition has a time delay.     

Finite time blow-up for a class of parabolic or pseudo-parabolic equations

In this paper, we study the initial boundary value problem for a class of parabolic or pseudo-parabolic equations:

$u_t?a\Delta u_t?\Delta u+bu=k\left(t\right)|u{|}^{p?2}u,(x,t)\in \Omega \times (0,T),$

where $a\ge 0$, $b>?{?}_1$ with ${?}_1$ being the principal eigenvalue for $?\Delta$ on $H_0^1\left(\Omega \right)$ and $k\left(t\right)>0$. By using the potential well method, Levine’s concavity method and some differential inequality techniques, we obtain the finite time blow-up results provided that the initial energy satisfies three conditions: (i) $J(u_0;0)<0$; (ii) $J(u_0;0)\le d\left(\infty \right)$, where $d\left(\infty \right)$ is a nonnegative constant; (iii) $0<J(u_0;0)\le C\rho \left(0\right)$, where $\rho \left(0\right)$ involves the $L^2$-norm or $H_0^1$-norm of the initial data. We also establish the lower and upper bounds for the blow-up time. In particular, we obtain the existence of certain solutions blowing up in finite time with initial data at the Nehari manifold or at arbitrary energy level.     

Boundedness in the higher-dimensional quasilinear chemotaxis-growth system with indirect attractant production

This paper deals with the following quasilinear chemotaxis-growth system

in a smoothly bounded domain $\Omega ?{\mathbb{R}}^n(n\ge 3)$ under zero-flux boundary conditions. The parameters $\mu ,\delta$ and $\tau$ are positive and the diffusion function $D\left(u\right)$ is supposed to generalize the prototype $D\left(u\right)\ge D_0{u}^{\theta }$ with $D_0>0$ and $\theta \in \mathbb{R}$. Under the assumption $\theta >1?\frac{4}{n}$, it is proved that whenever $\mu >0$, $\tau >0$ and $\delta >0$, for any given nonnegative and suitably smooth initial data ($u_0$, $v_0$, $w_0$) satisfying $u_0?0$, the corresponding initial–boundary problem possesses a unique global solution which is uniformly-in-time bounded. The novelty of the paper is that we use the boundedness of the $\left|\right|v(?,t)|{|}_{W^{1,s}\left(\Omega \right)}$ with $s\in [1,\frac{2n}{n?2})$ to estimate the boundedness of $\left|\right|?v(?,t)|{|}_{L^{2q}\left(\Omega \right)}(q>1)$. Moreover, the result in this paper can be regarded as an extension of a previous consequence on global existence of solutions by Hu et al. (2016) under the condition that $D\left(u\right)\equiv 1$ and $n=3$.     

A new approach toward stabilization in a two-species chemotaxis model with logistic source

This paper aims at providing an alternative approach to study global dynamic properties for a two-species chemotaxis model, with the main novelty being that both populations mutually compete with the other on account of the Lotka–Volterra dynamics. More precisely, we consider the following Neumann initial–boundary value problem

in a bounded domain $\Omega ?{\mathbb{R}}^n,n\ge 1$, with smooth boundary, where $d_1,d_2,d_3,{\chi }_1,{\chi }_2,{\mu }_1,{\mu }_2,a_1,a_2$ are positive constants.When $a_1\in (0,1)$ and $a_2\in (0,1)$, it is shown that under some explicit largeness assumptions on the logistic growth coefficients ${\mu }_1$ and ${\mu }_2$, the corresponding Neumann initial–boundary value problem possesses a unique global bounded solution which moreover approaches a unique positive homogeneous steady state $(u^1,v^1,w^1)$ of above system in the large time limit. The respective decay rate of this convergence is shown to be exponential.When $a_1\ge 1$ and $a_2\in (0,1)$, if ${\mu }_2$ is suitable large, for all sufficiently regular nonnegative initial data $u_0$ and $v_0$ with $u_0?0$ and $v_0?0$, the globally bounded solution of above system will stabilize toward $(0,1,1)$ as $t\to \infty$ in algebraic.     

Global bifurcation of positive radial solutions for an elliptic system in reactor dynamics

In this paper, we are concerned with the existence of positive radial solutions of the elliptic system $\{\begin{array}{c}?\Delta u=uv?\lambda u+f(\left|x\right|,u)\text{,}{R}_1<\left|x\right|<R_2\text{,}x\in {\mathbb{R}}^N,N\ge 1\text{,}\hfill \\ ?\Delta v=\mu u\text{,}{R}_1<\left|x\right|<R_2\text{,}x\in {\mathbb{R}}^N,N\ge 1\text{,}\hfill \\ u=v=0\text{,}\text{on }\left|x\right|=R_1\text{ and }\left|x\right|=R_2\text{,}\hfill \end{array}$ where $\left|x\right|={\left({\sum }_{i=1}^N{x}_i^2\right)}^{\frac{1}{2}}$, $\lambda >0$ is a constant, $\mu >0$ is a parameter and $0<R_1<R_2<\infty$, $f:[R_1,R_2]\times [0,\infty )\to [0,\infty )$ is continuous and $f(t,s)>0$ for all $(t,s)\in [R_1,R_2]\times (0,\infty )$. Under some appropriate conditions on the nonlinearity $f$, we show that the above system possesses at least one positive radial solution for any $\mu \in (0,\infty )$. The proof of our main results is based upon bifurcation techniques.     

Existence and multiplicity of solutions for a nonlocal problem with critical Sobolev exponent

In this work, we are interested in considering the following nonlocal problem

where $\Omega ?{\mathbb{R}}^N(N\ge 4)$ is a smooth bounded domain, $a\ge 0,b>0,1<q<2,\mu ,\lambda >0$ and $2^1=\frac{2N}{N?2}$ is the critical Sobolev exponent. By using the variational method and the critical point theorem, some existence and multiplicity results are obtained.     

Best uniform polynomial approximation of some rational functions

In this research paper using the Chebyshev expansion, we explicitly determine the best uniform polynomial approximation out of $P_{qn}$ (the space of polynomials of degree at most $qn$) to a class of rational functions of the form $1/(T_q\left(a\right)\pm T_q\left(x\right))$ on $[?1,1]$, where $T_q\left(x\right)$ is the first kind of Chebyshev polynomial of degree $q$ and $a^2>1$. In this way we give some new theorems about the best approximation of this class of rational functions. Furthermore we obtain the alternating set of this class of functions.     

Existence of ground states for a Kirchhoff type problem without 4-superlinear condition

We consider the existence of ground state solutions for the Kirchhoff type problem

where $a,b>0$, $N=1,2,3$ and $2<p<2^1$. Here we are interested in the case that $2<p\le 4$ since the existence of ground state for $4<p\le 2^1$ is easily obtained by a standard variational argument. Our method is based on a Poho$\stackrel{?}{z}$aev type identity.     

Relations between matrix sets generated from linear matrix expressions and their applications

Let $A+BXC$ and $A+BX+YC$ be two linear matrix expressions, and denote by $\{A+BXC\}$ and $\{A+BX+YC\}$ the collections of the two matrix expressions when $X$ and $Y$ run over the corresponding matrix spaces. In this paper, we study relationships between the two matrix sets $\{A_1+B_1{X}_1{C}_1\}$ and $\{A_2+B_2{X}_2{C}_2\}$, as well as the two sets $\{A_1+B_1{X}_1+Y_1{C}_1\}$ and $\{A_2+B_2{X}_2+Y_2{C}_2\}$, by using some rank formulas for matrices. In particular, we give necessary and sufficient conditions for the two matrix set inclusions $\{A_1+B_1{X}_1{C}_1\}?\{A_2+B_2{X}_2{C}_2\}$ and $\{A_1+B_1{X}_1+Y_1{C}_1\}?\{A_2+B_2{X}_2+Y_2{C}_2\}$ to hold. We also use the results obtained to characterize relations of solutions of some linear matrix equations.     

Existence of local strong solutions for motions of electrorheological fluids in three dimensions

We prove for three-dimensional domains the existence of local strong solutions to systems of nonlinear partial differential equations with $p(\cdot )$-structure, $p_{\infty }\le p(\cdot )\le p_0$, and Dirichlet boundary conditions for $p_{\infty }>\frac{9}{5}$ without restriction on the upper bound $p_0$. In particular this result is applicable to the motion of electrorheological fluids.     

Nonexistence of global solutions for a class of nonlocal in time and space nonlinear evolution equations

In this paper, we study the nonlocal nonlinear evolution equation

${}^C{D}_{0|t}^{\alpha }u(t,x)?(J1\left|u\right|?\left|u\right|)(t,x){+}^C{D}_{0|t}^{\beta }u(t,x)={\left|u(t,x)\right|}^p,t>0,x\in {\mathbb{R}}^d,$

where $1<\alpha <2$, $0<\beta <1$, $p>1$, $J:{\mathbb{R}}^d\to {\mathbb{R}}_{+}$, $1$ is the convolution product in ${\mathbb{R}}^d$, and ${}^C{D}_{0|t}^q$, $q\in \{\alpha ,\beta \}$, is the Caputo left-sided fractional derivative of order $q$ with respect to the time $t$. We prove that the problem admits no global weak solution other than the trivial one with suitable initial data when $1<p<1+\frac{2\beta }{d\beta +2(1?\beta )}$. Next, we deal with the system

where $1<\alpha <2$, $0<\beta <1$, $p>1$, and $q>1$. We prove that the system admitsnon global weak solution other than the trivial one with suitable initial data when $1<pq<1+\frac{2\beta }{d\beta +2(1?\beta )}max\{p+1,q+1\}$. Our approach is based on the test function method.