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Generation and metastability of patterns for nonlinear evolution equations

Of concern are the properties of solutions of one space dimensional evolution equation utx,t=A u˙,t x,x∈ R,t>0, 0.1 where A is a nonlinear operator which is independent of the time t, maps functions of space variable · to functions of x. Examples of this include some important models such as Allen-Cahn equation, Neural network model and Ising model etc. We show that under certain assumptions on A , the solution of the rescaled version of (0.1) utx,t=A ue˙, t xe ,e>0small, will develop a 'transition layer structure', i.e. a pattern, at a predictable time and that this pattern will last for a very long time but will be eventually destroyed / acase@tulane.edu

  1. tulane:25849
Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TULANE/oai:http://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/:tulane_25849
Date January 2002
ContributorsZhang, Zhenbu (Author), Wang, Xuefeng (Thesis advisor)
PublisherTulane University
Source SetsTulane University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
RightsAccess requires a license to the Dissertations and Theses (ProQuest) database., Copyright is in accordance with U.S. Copyright law

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