This paper reports a new spectral collocation method for numerically solving two-dimensional biharmonic boundary-value problems. The construction of the Chebyshev approximations is based on integration rather than conventional differentiation. This use of integration allows: (i) the imposition of the governing equation at the whole set of grid points including the boundary points and (ii) the s...

In this paper, we establish the existence of at least three solutions to a Navier boundary problem involving the biharmonic equation. The technical approach is mainly base on a three critical points theorem of B. Ricceri. AMS Subject Classifications: 34B15.

We study the regularity of solutions to the obstacle problem for the parabolic biharmonic equation. We analyze the problem via an implicit time discretization, and we prove some regularity properties of the solution.

Abstract. This paper is concerned with a biharmonic equation under the Navier boundary condition (P∓ε) : ∆u = u n+4 n−4 , u > 0 in Ω and u = ∆u = 0 on ∂Ω, where Ω is a smooth bounded domain in R, n ≥ 5, and ε > 0. We study the asymptotic behavior of solutions of (P−ε) which are minimizing for the Sobolev quotient as ε goes to zero. We show that such solutions concentrate around a point x0 ∈ Ω a...

We consider a two obstacle problem for the parabolic biharmonic equation in a bounded domain. We prove long time existence of solutions via an implicit time discretization scheme, and we investigate the regularity properties of solutions.

The purpose of this paper is to establish the regularity the weak solutions for the nonlinear biharmonic equation { ∆2u + a(x)u = g(x, u), u ∈ H2(RN ), where the condition u ∈ H2(RN ) plays the role of a boundary value condition, and as well expresses explicitly that the differential equation is to be satisfied in the weak sense.