This paper is concerned with finite difference methods for approximating solutions to the partial differential heat equation. The first chapel gives some introductory background into the physical problem, then motivates three finite difference methods. Chapters II through IV provide statements and proofs for the theorems used in the methods of Chapter I. The final Chapter, V, provides conclusions and an indication of future work. An appendix includes the computer codes written by the author with numerical results.

Ces travaux concernent deux équations paraboliques, dégénérées et non-locales. La première équation est une équation de films minces fractionnaire et la deuxième est une équation des milieux poreux fractionnaire. La présentation des problèmes, les résultats existants dans la littérature, ainsi que le résumé de nos résultats font l'objet de l'introduction. Le deuxième chapitre est consacré à la présentation de la méthode de De Giorgi utilisée pour montrer la régularité Hölder des solutions des équations elliptiques. On présente de plus les résultats utilisant cette approche dans les cas paraboliques local et non-local. Dans le troisième chapitre, on montre l'existence de solutions faibles d'une équation des films minces fractionnaire. C'est une équation parabolique, dégénérée, non-locale d'ordre $alpha+2$ où $0 < alpha < 2$. C'est une généralisation d'une équation étudiée par Imbert et Mellet en 2011 pour $alpha = 1$. Pour construire les solutions, on passe par un problème régularisé. En utilisant les injections de Sobolev, on passe à la limite pour trouver des solutions faibles. Vu la différence des injections de Sobolev, on distingue deux cas $0 <alpha < 1$ et $1 leq alpha < 2$. Dans les deux cas on démontre que la solution est positive si la condition initiale l'est. Le quatrième chapitre concerne une équation des milieux poreux fractionnaire. On montre la régularité Hölder de solutions faibles positives satisfaisant des estimées d'énergie. D'abord, on montre l'existence de solutions faibles qui satisfont des estimées d'énergie. On distingue deux cas $0 <alpha < 1$ et $1 leq alpha < 2$ à cause de problème de divergence. Puis on démontre les lemmes de De Giorgi qui sont des lemmes de réduction de l'oscillation d'en dessus et d'au-dessous. Ces deux lemmes ne suffisent pas pour montrer la régularité Hölder. On a besoin d'améliorer le résultat du lemme de réduction de l'oscillation d'en dessus. Donc, on passe par un lemme des valeurs intermédiaires et on montrer un lemme de réduction de l'oscillation d'en dessus amélioré. Enfin, on montre la régularité Hölder des solutions en utilisant la propriété scaling de ces solutions / In this thesis, we study two degenerate, non-local parabolic equations, a fractional thin film equation and a fractional porous medium equation. The introduction contains a presentation of problems, the previous results in the literature and a brief presentation of our results. In the second chapter, we present a short overview of the De Giorgi method used to prove Hölder regularity of solutions of elliptic equations. Moreover, we present the results using this approach in the local and non-local parabolic cases. In the third chapter we prove existence of weak solutions of a fractional thin film equation. It is a non-local degenerate parabolic equation of order $alpha + 2$ where $0 < alpha < 2$. It is a generalization of an equation studied by Imbert and Mellet in 2011 for $alpha = 1$. To construct these solutions, we consider a regularized problem then we pass to the limit using Sobolev embedding theorem, that's why we distinguish two cases $0 < alpha < 1$ and $1 leq alpha < 2$. We also prove that the solution is positive if the initial condition is so. The fourth chapter is dedicated for a fractional porous medium equation. We prove Hölder regularity of positive weak solutions satisfying energy estimates. First, we prove the existence of weak solutions that satisfy energy estimates. We distiguish two cases $0 < alpha < 1$ and $1 leq alpha < 2$ because of divergence problems. The we prove De Giorgi Lemmas about oscillation reduction from above and from below. This is not suffisant. We need to improve the lemma about oscillation reduction from above. So we pass by an intermediate values lemma and we prove an improved oscillation reduction lemma from above. Finally, we prove Hölder regularity of solutions using the scaling property

In this thesis, we consider four different stochastic partial differential equations. Firstly, we study stochastic Helmholtz equation driven by an additive white noise, in a bounded convex domain with smooth boundary of Rd (d = 2, 3). And then with the help of the perfectly matched layers technique, we also consider the stochastic scattering problem of Helmholtz type. The second part of this thesis is to investigate the time harmonic case for stochastic Maxwell's equations driven by an color noise in a simple medium, and then we expand the results to the stochastic Maxwell's equations in case of dispersive media in Rd (d = 2, 3). Thirdly, we study stochastic parabolic partial differential equation driven by space-time color noise, where the domain O is a bounded domain in R2 with boundary &part;O of class C2+alpha for 0 &lt; alpha &lt; 1/2. In the last part, we discuss the stochastic wave equation (SWE) driven by nonlinear noise in 1D case, where the noise 626x6t W(x, t) is the space-time mixed second-order derivative of the Brownian sheet. / Many physical and engineering phenomena are modeled by partial differential equations which often contain some levels of uncertainty. The advantage of modeling using so-called stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) is that SPDEs are able to more fully capture interesting phenomena; it also means that the corresponding numerical analysis of the model will require new tools to model the systems, produce the solutions, and analyze the information stored within the solutions. / One of the goals of this thesis is to derive error estimates for numerical solutions of the above four kinds SPDEs. The difficulty in the error analysis in finite element methods and general numerical approximations for a SPDE is the lack of regularity of its solution. To overcome such a difficulty, we follow the approach of [4] by first discretizing the noise and then applying standard finite element methods and discontinuous Galerkin methods to the stochastic Helmholtz equation and Maxwell equations with discretized noise; standard finite element method to the stochastic parabolic equation with discretized color noise; Galerkin method to the stochastic wave equation with discretized white noise, and we obtain error estimates are comparable to the error estimates of finite difference schemes. / We shall focus on some SPDEs where randomness only affects the right-hand sides of the equations. To solve the four types of SPDEs using, for example, the Monte Carlo method, one needs many solvers for the deterministic problem with multiple right-hand sides. We present several efficient deterministic solvers such as flexible CG method and block flexible GMRES method, which are absolutely essential in computing statistical quantities. / Zhang, Kai. / Adviser: Zou Jun. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-06, Section: B, page: 3552. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 144-155). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / School code: 1307.

The objective of this research is to develop a design process for origami-adapted products and demonstrate it using aerospace mechanism examples. Origami-adapted design is a type of origami-based design. Origami-based design ranges from abstract to concrete applications of origami to design and includes: origami-inspired design, origami-adapted design, and origami-applied design. Origami-adapted design adapts origami fold patterns into products while preserving functionality. Some of the desirable attributes of origami that are sought after in design include: 1) reduced number of parts, 2) stowability, 3) deployability, 4) transportability, 5) manufacturability from a flat sheet of material, 6) ease of miniaturization, 7) a single manufacturing technique (folding) and 8) low material volume and mass. The proposed origami-adapted design process has four steps: define the problem, identify an origami solution, modify the fold pattern, and integrate. Intermediate steps apply tools to analyze and modify the origami fold pattern according to the design requirements. The first step defines whether origami is a viable solution by evaluating a set of starting criteria. Once it has been determined that origami is a viable solution, the design process guides the designer through a series of steps that modify the origami crease pattern until the final design is reached. The origami-adapted design process is applied to the design of three aerospace mechanism examples: an origami bellows, an expandable habitat, and a deployable parabolic antenna. The design process is followed throughout the design of these aerospace mechanisms. The origami bellows is designed and tested as a highly compressible origami bellows for harsh environments. It can be designed to endure 100,000+ cycles in fatigue and underwent testing for thermal cycling, abrasion, and radiation. The second example is a proof-of-concept expandable habitat for implementation as a module on the International Space Station. The design process aides in selecting an origami crease pattern and modifying it for thick, rigid materials. The last example is a deployable parabolic antenna. It is based on the flasher fold pattern with a wedge of the pattern removed to create curvature. It is experimentally verified to be approximately parabolic. The examples are shown to follow the origami-adapted design process and that the design process is flexible to accommodate a design's needs.

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This thesis is concerned with the theory of invariant bilinear differential pairings on parabolic geometries. It introduces the concept formally with the help of the jet bundle formalism and provides a detailed analysis. More precisely, after introducing the most important notations and definitions, we first of all give an algebraic description for pairings on homogeneous spaces and obtain a first existence theorem. Next, a classification of first order invariant bilinear differential pairings is given under exclusion of certain degenerate cases that are related to the existence of invariant linear differential operators. Furthermore, a concrete formula for a large class of invariant bilinear differential pairings of arbitrary order is given and many examples are computed. The general theory of higher order invariant bilinear differential pairings turns out to be much more intricate and a general construction is only possible under exclusion of finitely many degenerate cases whose significance in general remains elusive (although a result for projective geometry is included). The construction relies on so-called splitting operators examples of which are described for projective geometry, conformal geometry and CR geometry in the last chapter. / http://proxy.library.adelaide.edu.au/login?url= http://library.adelaide.edu.au/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=1339548 / Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Adelaide, School of Mathematical Sciences, 2008

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In this paper, we discuss the viscosity solutions of the weakly coupled systems of fully nonlinear second order degenerate parabolic equations and their Cauchy-Dirichlet problem. We prove the existence, uniqueness and continuity of viscosity solution by combining Perron's method with the technique of coupled solutions. The results here generalize those in [2] and [3].

In the thesis we consider two types of problems. In Paper 1, we study small solutions to a time-independent nonlinear elliptic partial differential equation of Emden-Fowler type in a semi-infnite cylinder. The asymptotic behaviour of these solutions at infnity is determined. First, the equation under the Neumann boundary condition is studied. We show that any solution small enough either vanishes at infnity or tends to a nonzero periodic solution to a nonlinear ordinary differential equation. Thereafter, the same equation under the Dirichlet boundary condition is studied, the non-linear term and right-hand side now being slightly more general than in the Neumann problem. Here, an estimate of the solution in terms of the right-hand side of the equation is given. If the equation is homogeneous, then every solution small enough tends to zero. Moreover, if the cross-section is star-shaped and the nonlinear term in the equation is subject to some additional constraints, then every bounded solution to the homogeneous Dirichlet problem vanishes at infnity. In Paper 2, we study asymptotics as t → ∞ of solutions to a linear, parabolic system of equations with time-dependent coefficients in Ωx(0,∞), where Ω is a bounded domain. On δΩ(0,∞) we prescribe the homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition. For large values of t, the coefficients in the elliptic part are close to time-independent coefficients in an integral sense which is described by a certain function κ(t). This includes in particular situations when the coefficients may take different values on different parts of Ω and the boundaries between them can move with t but stabilize as t → ∞. The main result is an asymptotic representation of solutions for large t. As a corollary, it is proved that if κєL1(0,∞), then the solution behaves asymptotically as the solution to a parabolic system with time-independent coefficients.

The present thesis is dedicated to two topics in Dynamics of Holomorphic maps. The first topic is dynamics of simple parabolic germs at the origin. The second topic is Polynomial-time Computability of Julia sets.\\ Dynamics of simple parabolic germs. Let $F$ be a germ with a simple parabolic fixed point at the origin: $F(w)=w+w^2+O(w^3).$ It is convenient to apply the change of coordinates $z=-1/w$ and consider the germ at infinity $$f(z)=-1/F(-1/z)=z+1+O(z^{-1}).$$ The dynamics of a germ $f$ can be described using Fatou coordinates. Fatou coordinates are analytic solutions of the equation $\phi(f(z))=\phi(z)+1.$ This equation has a formal solution \[\tilde\phi(z)=\text{const}+z+A\log z+\sum_{j=1}^\infty b_jz^{-j},\] where $\sum b_jz^{-j}$ is a divergent power series. Using \'Ecalle's Resurgence Theory we show that $\tilde$ can be interpreted as the asymptotic expansion of the Fatou coordinates at infinity. Moreover, the Fatou coordinates can be obtained from $\tilde \phi$ using Borel-Laplace summation. J.~\'Ecalle and S.~Voronin independently constructed a complete set of invariants of analytic conjugacy classes of germs with a parabolic fixed point. We give a new proof of validity of \'Ecalle's construction. \\ Computability of Julia sets. Informally, a compact subset of the complex plane is called \emph if it can be visualized on a computer screen with an arbitrarily high precision. One of the natural open questions of computational complexity of Julia sets is how large is the class of rational functions (in a sense of Lebesgue measure on the parameter space) whose Julia set can be computed in a polynomial time. The main result of Chapter II is the following: Theorem. Let $f$ be a rational function of degree $d\ge 2$. Assume that for each critical point $c\in J_f$ the $\omega$-limit set $\omega(c)$ does not contain either a critical point or a parabolic periodic point of $f$. Then the Julia set $J_f$ is computable in a polynomial time.