This thesis is in the field of non-linear partial differential equations (PDE), focusing on problems which show some type of phase-transition. A single phase Hele-Shaw flow models a Newtoninan fluid which is being injected in the space between two narrowly separated parallel planes. The time evolution of the space that the fluid occupies can be modelled by a semi-linear PDE. This is a problem within the field of free boundary problems. In the multi-phase problem we consider the time-evolution of a system of phases which interact according to the principle that the joint boundary which emerges when two phases meet is fixed for all future times. The problem is handled by introducing a parameterized equation which is regularized and penalized. The penalization is non-local in time and tracks the history of the system, penalizing the joint support of two different phases in space-time. The main result in the first paper is the existence theory of a weak solution to the parameterized equations in a Bochner space using the implicit function theorem. The family of solutions to the parameterized problem is uniformly bounded allowing us to extract a weakly convergent subsequence for the case when the penalization tends to infinity. The second problem deals with a parameterized highly oscillatory quasi-linear elliptic equation in divergence form. As the regularization parameter tends to zero the equation gets a jump in the conductivity which occur at the level set of a locally periodic function, the obstacle. As the oscillations in the problem data increases the solution to the equation experiences high frequency jumps in the conductivity, resulting in the corresponding solutions showing an effective global behaviour. The global behavior is related to the so called homogenized solution. We show that the parameterized equation has a weak solution in a Sobolev space and derive bounds on the solutions used in the analysis for the case when the regularization is lost. Surprisingly, the limiting problem in this case includes an extra term describing the interaction between the solution and the obstacle, not appearing in the case when obstacle is the zero level-set. The oscillatory nature of the problem makes standard numerical algorithms computationally expensive, since the global domain needs to be resolved on the micro scale. We develop a multi scale method for this problem based on the heterogeneous multiscale method (HMM) framework and using a finite element (FE) approach to capture the macroscopic variations of the solutions at a significantly lower cost. We numerically investigate the effect of the obstacle on the homogenized solution, finding empirical proof that certain choices of obstacles make the limiting problem have a form structurally different from that of the parameterized problem. / <p>QC 20180222</p>

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This dissertation was to study computational theory and methods for ?nding multiple saddle critical points in Banach spaces. Two local minimax methods were developed for this purpose. One was for unconstrained cases and the other was for constrained cases. First, two local minmax characterization of saddle critical points in Banach spaces were established. Based on these two local minmax characterizations, two local minimax algorithms were designed. Their ?ow charts were presented. Then convergence analysis of the algorithms were carried out. Under certain assumptions, a subsequence convergence and a point-to-set convergence were obtained. Furthermore, a relation between the convergence rates of the functional value sequence and corresponding gradient sequence was derived. Techniques to implement the algorithms were discussed. In numerical experiments, those techniques have been successfully implemented to solve for multiple solutions of several quasilinear elliptic boundary value problems and multiple eigenpairs of the well known nonlinear p-Laplacian operator. Numerical solutions were presented by their pro?les for visualization. Several interesting phenomena of the solutions of quasilinear elliptic boundary value problems and the eigenpairs of the p-Laplacian operator have been observed and are open for further investigation. As a generalization of the above results, nonsmooth critical points were considered for locally Lipschitz continuous functionals. A local minmax characterization of nonsmooth saddle critical points was also established. To establish its version in Banach spaces, a new notion, pseudo-generalized-gradient has to be introduced. Based on the characterization, a local minimax algorithm for ?nding multiple nonsmooth saddle critical points was proposed for further study.

This dissertation was to study computational theory and methods for ?nding multiple saddle critical points in Banach spaces. Two local minimax methods were developed for this purpose. One was for unconstrained cases and the other was for constrained cases. First, two local minmax characterization of saddle critical points in Banach spaces were established. Based on these two local minmax characterizations, two local minimax algorithms were designed. Their ?ow charts were presented. Then convergence analysis of the algorithms were carried out. Under certain assumptions, a subsequence convergence and a point-to-set convergence were obtained. Furthermore, a relation between the convergence rates of the functional value sequence and corresponding gradient sequence was derived. Techniques to implement the algorithms were discussed. In numerical experiments, those techniques have been successfully implemented to solve for multiple solutions of several quasilinear elliptic boundary value problems and multiple eigenpairs of the well known nonlinear p-Laplacian operator. Numerical solutions were presented by their pro?les for visualization. Several interesting phenomena of the solutions of quasilinear elliptic boundary value problems and the eigenpairs of the p-Laplacian operator have been observed and are open for further investigation. As a generalization of the above results, nonsmooth critical points were considered for locally Lipschitz continuous functionals. A local minmax characterization of nonsmooth saddle critical points was also established. To establish its version in Banach spaces, a new notion, pseudo-generalized-gradient has to be introduced. Based on the characterization, a local minimax algorithm for ?nding multiple nonsmooth saddle critical points was proposed for further study.

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Neste trabalho, mostramos a existência e multiplicidade de soluções para a seguinte classe de equações elípticas quasilineares { - \'DELTA IND. \'NÜ\' POT. \'upsilon\' + \'|\'upsilon\'| POT. \'NÜ\' - 2 \'upsilon\' = f(x, u), \'upsilon\' \'DIFERENTE\' 0, \'upsilon\' \'PERTENCE A >>: Nu + jujN2 u = f(x; u); x 2 ; u 6= 0; u 2 W1;N( ); onde e um domnio em RN, N 2, N e o operador N-Laplaciano e f e uma func~ao que possui um crescimento crtico exponencial. Para obter nossos resultados utilizamos o Princpio Variacional de Ekeland, Teorema do Passo da Montanha, Categoria de Lusternik- Schnirelman, Ac~ao de Grupo e tecnicas baseadas na Teoria do G^enero. Palavras chaves: Problemas elpticos quasilineares, Metodo Variacional, N-Laplaciano, crescimento crtico exponencial, Princpio Variacional de Ekeland, Categoria de Lusternik- Schnirelman, Desigualdade de Trudinger-Moser / In this work, we show the existence and multiplicity of solutions for the following class of quasilinear elliptic equations { - \'DELTA\' IND. \'NÜ\' \'upsilon\'\' + |\'upsilon\'| POT. \'NÜ\' - 2 = f(x, \'upsilon\'), x \"IT BELONGS\' \'OMEGA\', \'upsilon\' \'DIFFERENT\' 0, \'upsilon\' \'IT BELONGS\' W POT. 1, \'NÜ\' ( OMEGA), where \'OMEGA\' is a domain in \' R POT. \'NÜ\' > OR = 2, \'DELTA\' IND. \'NÜ\' is the N-Laplacian operator and f is a function with exponential critical growth. To obtain our results we utilize the Ekeland Variational Principle, the Mountain Pass Theorem, Lusternik-Schnirelman of Category, Group Action and techniques based on Genus Theory

Provamos resultados sobre a geometria de hipersuperfícies em diferentes espaços ambiente. Primeiro, definimos uma aplicação de Gauss generalizada para uma hipersuperfície Mn-1 c/ Nn, onde N é um espaço simétrico de dimensão n ≥ 3. Em particular, generalizamos um resultado de Ruh-Vilms e apresentamos aplicações. Em seguida, estudamos superfícies em espaços de dimensão 3: estudamos a equação da curvatura média em um produto semidireto R2oAR e obtemos estimativas da altura e a existência de gráficos mínimos do tipo Scherk. Finalmente, no espaço ambiente de uma variedade hiperbólica de dimensão 3: nós apresentamos condições suficientes para que um mergulho completo de uma superfície ∑ de topologia finita em N com curvatura média |H∑| ≤ 1 seja próprio. / We prove results concerning the geometry of hypersurfaces on di erent ambient spaces. First, we de ne a generalized Gauss map for a hypersurface Mn-1 c/ Nn, where N is a symmetric space of dimension n ≥ 3. In particular, we generalize a result due to Ruh-Vilms and make some applications. Then, we focus on surfaces on spaces of dimension 3: we study the mean curvature equation of a semidirect product R2 oA R to obtain height estimates and the existence of a Scherk-like minimal graph. Finally, on the ambient space of a hyperbolic manifold N of dimension 3 we give su cient conditions for a complete embedding of a nite topology surface ∑ on N with mean curvature |H∑| ≤ 1 to be proper.

Cette thèse est constituée de trois parties. Dans la première partie, on s’intéresse au problème de trace au bord d’une solution positive de l’équation (E1) - Δu + g(∇u) = 0 dans un domaine borné Ω. Si g(r) ≥ rq avec q > 1, on prouve que toute solution positive de (E1)admet une trace au bord considérée comme une mesure de Borel régulière. Si g(r) = rq avec1 < q < qc = N+1/N , on montre l’existence d’une solution positive dont la trace au bord est une mesure de Borel régulière. Si g(r) = rq avec qc ≤ q < 2, on établit une condition nécessaire de résolution en terme de capacité de Bessel C2-q/q ,q’ . On étudie aussi des ensembles éliminables au bord pour des solutions modérées et sigma-modérées. La deuxième partie est consacrée à étudier la limite, lorsque k → ∞, de solutions d’équation ∂tu - Δu + f(u) = 0 dans ℝN × (0,∞) avec donnée initiale kδ0. On prouve qu’il existe essentiellement trois types de comportement possible et démontre un résultat général d’existence de trace initiale et quelques résultats d’unicité et de non-unicité de solutions dont la donnée initiale n’est pas bornée. Dans la troisième partie, on considère l’équation ∂tu - Δu + f(u) = 0 dans ℝN × (0,∞) où p > 1. Si p > 2N/N+1, on fournit une condition suffisante portant sur f pour l’existence et l’unicité des solutions fondamentales et on étudie la limite lorsque k → ∞. On donne aussi de nouveaux résultats de non-unicité de solutions avec donnée initiale non bornée. Si p ≥ 2, on prouve que toute solution positive admet une trace initiale dans la classe des mesures de Borel régulières positives. Finalement on applique les résultats ci-dessus au cas f(u) = uα lnβ(u + 1) avec α,β > 0. / This thesis is divided into three parts. In the first part, we study the boundary trace of positive solutions of the equation (E1) - Δu + g(∇u) = 0 in a bounded domain . When g(r) ≥ rq with q > 1, we prove that any positive function of (E1) admits a boundary trace which is an outer regular Borel measure. When g(r) ≥ rq with 1 < q < qc = N+1/N, we prove the existence of a positive solution with a general outer regular Borel measure as boundary trace.When g(r) ≥ rq with qc ≤ q < 2, we establish a necessary condition for solvability in term of the Bessel capacity C2-q/q ,q’ . We also study boundary removable sets for moderate and sigma-moderate solutions. The second part is devoted to investigate the limit, when k → ∞, of the solutions of ∂tu - Δu + f(u) = 0 in ℝN × (0,∞) with initial data kδ0. We prove that there exist essentially three types of possible behaviour and provide a new and more general construction of the initial trace and some uniqueness and non-uniqueness results for solutions with unbounded initial data. In the third part, we consider the equation ∂tu - Δu + f(u) = 0 in ℝN × (0,∞) where p > 1. If p > 2N/N+1we provide a sufficient condition on f for existence and uniqueness of the fundamental solutions and we study their limit when k → ∞. We also give new results dealing with non uniqueness for the initial value problem with unbounded initial data. If p ≥ 2, we prove that any positive solution admits an initial trace in the class of positive Borel measures. Finally we apply the above results to the case f(u) = uα lnβ(u + 1) with α,β > 0.

La Partie I présente l’obtention du développement asymptotique topologique pour une classe d’équations elliptiques quasilinéaires. Un point central réside dans la possibilité de définir la variation de l’état direct à l’échelle 1 dans R^N. Après avoir défini un cadre fonctionnel approprié faisant intervenir les normes L^p et L^2, et avoir justifié la classe d’équations considérée, la méthode se poursuit par l’étude du comportement asymptotique de la solution du problème d’interface non linéaire dans R^N et par une mise en dualité appropriée des états direct et adjoint aux différentes étapes d’approximation.La Partie II traite d’estimations et de développements asymptotiques de p-capacités de condensateurs, dont l’obstacle est d’intérieur vide et de codimension > ou = 2. Après les résultats préliminaires, les condensateurs équidistants permettent de donner deux illustrations de l’anisotropie engendrée par un segment dans l’équation de p-Laplace, puis d’établir une minoration de la p-capacité N-dimensionnelle d’un segment, qui fait intervenir les p-capacités d’un point, respectivement en dimensions N et (N-1). Les condensateurs elliptiques permettent d’établir que le gradient topologique de la 2-capacité n’est pas un outil approprié pour distinguer les courbes des obstacles d’intérieur non vide en 2D / Part I deals with obtaining topological asymptotic expansions for a class of quasilinear elliptic equations. A key point lies in the ability to define the variation of the direct state at scale 1 in R^N. After setting up an appropriate functional framework involving both the L^p and the L^2 norms, and then justifying the chosen class of equations, the approach goes on with the study of the asymptotic behavior of the solution of the nonlinear interface problem in R^N and by setting up an adequate duality scheme between the direct and adjoint states at each step of approximation. Part II deals with estimates and asymptotic expansions of condenser p-capacities and focuses on obstacles with empty interiors and with codimensions > ou = 2. After preliminary results, equidistant condensers are introduced to point out the anisotropy caused by a segment in the p-Laplace equation, and to provide a lower bound to the N-dimensional condenser p-capacity of a segment, by means of the N-dimensional and of the (N-1)-dimensional condenser p-capacities of apoint. Introducing elliptical condensers, it turns out that the topological gradient of the 2-capacity is not an appropriate tool to separate curves and obstacles with nonempty interior in 2D

Provamos resultados sobre a geometria de hipersuperfícies em diferentes espaços ambiente. Primeiro, definimos uma aplicação de Gauss generalizada para uma hipersuperfície Mn-1 c/ Nn, onde N é um espaço simétrico de dimensão n ≥ 3. Em particular, generalizamos um resultado de Ruh-Vilms e apresentamos aplicações. Em seguida, estudamos superfícies em espaços de dimensão 3: estudamos a equação da curvatura média em um produto semidireto R2oAR e obtemos estimativas da altura e a existência de gráficos mínimos do tipo Scherk. Finalmente, no espaço ambiente de uma variedade hiperbólica de dimensão 3: nós apresentamos condições suficientes para que um mergulho completo de uma superfície ∑ de topologia finita em N com curvatura média |H∑| ≤ 1 seja próprio. / We prove results concerning the geometry of hypersurfaces on di erent ambient spaces. First, we de ne a generalized Gauss map for a hypersurface Mn-1 c/ Nn, where N is a symmetric space of dimension n ≥ 3. In particular, we generalize a result due to Ruh-Vilms and make some applications. Then, we focus on surfaces on spaces of dimension 3: we study the mean curvature equation of a semidirect product R2 oA R to obtain height estimates and the existence of a Scherk-like minimal graph. Finally, on the ambient space of a hyperbolic manifold N of dimension 3 we give su cient conditions for a complete embedding of a nite topology surface ∑ on N with mean curvature |H∑| ≤ 1 to be proper.