Variance parameters in mixed or multilevel models can be difficult to estimate, especially when the number of groups is small. Here we address the problem that the group-level variance estimate is often on the boundary. We propose a maximum penalized likelihood approach which is equivalent to estimating the variance by its marginal posterior mode, given a weakly informative prior distribution. ...

We consider the numerical solution for the Helmholtz equation in R with mixed boundary conditions. The solvability of this mixed boundary value problem is established by the boundary integral equation method. Based on the Green formula, we express the solution in terms of the boundary data. The key to the numerical realization of this method is the computation of weakly singular integrals. Nume...

The Casimir forces on two parallel plates in conformally flat domain wall background due to conformally coupled massless scalar field satisfying mixed boundary conditions on the plates is investigated. In the general case of mixed boundary conditions formulae are derived for the vacuum expectation values of the energy-momentum tensor and vacuum forces acting on boundaries.

In this paper we show how to use a Tug-of-War game to obtain existence of a viscosity solution to the infinity laplacian with nonhomogeneous mixed boundary conditions. For a Lipschitz and positive function g there exists a viscosity solution of the mixed boundary value problem,

In this paper we prove that finite element discrete harmonic functions with mixed Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions satisfy a weak (Agmon-Miranda) maximum principle on convex polygonal domains. Using this result, we establish the stability of the Ritz projection with mixed boundary conditions in L∞ norm up to a logarithmic term.

The narrow escape problem in diffusion theory is to calculate the mean first passage time of a diffusion process to a small target on the reflecting boundary of a bounded domain. The problem is equivalent to solving the mixed Dirichlet–Neumann boundary value problem for the Poisson equation with small Dirichlet and large Neumann parts. The mixed boundary value problem, which goes back to Lord R...

We study a Riemann problem for the unsteady transonic small disturbance equations that results in a diverging rarefaction problem. The self-similar reduction leads to a boundary value problem with equations that change type (hyperbolic-elliptic) and a sonic line that is a free boundary. We summarize the principal ideas and present the main features of the problem. The flow in the hyperbolic par...