An approach for ­ nding the e¬ective properties of two-dimensional periodic rectangular checkerboard media is presented; it is demonstrated that one can take a relatively simple model problem, an appropriate system of joined quarter planes, and that after appropriate conformal transformation one can use this to solve for either periodic or doubly periodic structures. Illustrative calculations i...

We consider the Navier-Stokes equations on thin 3D domains Qε = Ω×(0, ε), supplemented mainly with purely periodic boundary conditions or with periodic boundary conditions in the thin direction and homogeneous Dirichlet conditions on the lateral boundary. We prove global existence and uniqueness of solutions for initial data and forcing terms, which are larger and less regular than in previous ...

We consider the one-dimensional steady fin problem with the Dirichlet boundary condition at one end and the Neumann boundary condition at the other. Both the thermal conductivity and the heat transfer coefficient are given as arbitrary functions of temperature. We perform preliminary group classification to determine forms of the arbitrary functions appearing in the considered equation for whic...

Near-linear evolution in the Korteweg-de-Vries (KdV) equation with periodic boundary conditions is established under the assumption of high frequency initial data. This result is obtained by the method of normal form reduction. Mathematics Subject Classification: 35Q53

An analytic theory of periodically perturbed magneto-inductive waveguides is developed and used to determine the mode spectrum of distorted MI ring resonators. A set of coupled equations is first established from the recurrence equations for an infinite set of coupled elements, and used to determine the dispersion equation. Solutions for ring resonators are then found using periodic boundary co...

Using a new local smoothing estimate of the first and third authors, we prove local-in-time Strichartz and smoothing estimates without a loss exterior to a large class of polygonal obstacles with arbitrary boundary conditions and global-in-time Strichartz estimates without a loss exterior to a large class of polygonal obstacles with Dirichlet boundary conditions. In addition, we prove a global-...

Dromions are exponentially localised coherent structures supported by nonlinear integrable evolution equations in two spatial dimensions. In the study of initial-value problems on the plane, such solutions occur only if one imposes nontrivial boundary conditions at infinity, a situation of dubious physical significance. However it is established here that dromions appear naturally in the study ...

The diamagnetic inequality for the magnetic Schrödinger semigroup is extended to the difference of the semigroups of magnetic Schrödinger operators with Neumann and Dirichlet boundary conditions on arbitrary open domains and rather general magnetic vector potentials A and potentials V . In particular, this bound renders moot all the technical issues in the recent proofs of the independence of t...

Both the boundary Harnack principle and the Carleson estimate describe the boundary behavior of positive harmonic functions vanishing on a portion of the boundary. These notions are inextricably related and have been obtained simultaneously for domains with specific geometrical conditions. The main aim of this paper is to show that the boundary Harnack principle and the Carleson estimate are eq...

Three-dimensional deformations of a multilayered, linear elastic, anisotropic rectangular plate subjected to arbitrary boundary conditions at its edges are analyzed by the generalized Eshelby-Stroh formalism. The rectangular laminate consists of anisotropic and homogeneous laminae of arbitrary thicknesses. Perfect bonding is assumed between the adjoining laminae in the sense that both surface t...