Uniqueness and Properties of Distributional Solutions of Nonlocal Equations of Porous Medium Type

We study the uniqueness, existence, and properties of bounded distributional solutions of the initial value problem for the anomalous diffusion equation $\partial_tu-\mathcal{L}^\mu [\varphi (u)]=0$. Here $\mathcal{L}^\mu$ can be any nonlocal symmetric degenerate elliptic operator including the frac...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Del Teso, F., Endal, J., Jacobsen, E.R.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Institución:Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM)
Repositorio:BIRD. BCAM's Institutional Repository Data
OAI Identifier:oai:bird.bcamath.org:20.500.11824/307
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11824/307
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:uniqueness
distributional solutions
nonlinear degenerate diffusion
porous medium equation
Stefan problem
fractional Laplacian
nonlocal operators
existence
stability
local limits
continuous dependence
numerical approximation
convergence
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Sumario:We study the uniqueness, existence, and properties of bounded distributional solutions of the initial value problem for the anomalous diffusion equation $\partial_tu-\mathcal{L}^\mu [\varphi (u)]=0$. Here $\mathcal{L}^\mu$ can be any nonlocal symmetric degenerate elliptic operator including the fractional Laplacian and numerical discretizations of this operator. The function $\varphi:\mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$ is only assumed to be continuous and nondecreasing. The class of equations include nonlocal (generalized) porous medium equations, fast diffusion equations, and Stefan problems. In addition to very general uniqueness and existence results, we obtain stability, $L^1$-contraction, and a priori estimates. We also study local limits, continuous dependence, and properties and convergence of a numerical approximation of our equations.