We investigate uniqueness in the inverse problem of reconstructing simultaneously a spacewise conductivity function and a heat source in the parabolic heat equation from the usual conditions of the direct problem and additional information from a supplementary temperature measurement at a given single instant of time. In the multi-dimensional case, we use Carleman estimates for parabolic equati...

In this paper we study variational problems related to the heat equation in metric spaces equipped with a doubling measure and supporting a Poincaré inequality. We give a definition of parabolic De Giorgi classes and compare this notion with that of parabolic quasiminimizers. The main result, after proving the local boundedness, is the proof of a scale-invariant Harnack inequality for functions...

In this paper, we study the semi-discrete Galerkin finite element method for parabolic equations with Lipschitz continuous coefficients. We prove the maximumnorm stability of the semigroup generated by the corresponding elliptic finite element operator, and prove the space-time stability of the parabolic projection onto the finite element space in L∞(QT ) and L p((0, T ); Lq ( )), 1 < p, q < ∞....

Aalto University, P.O. Box 11000, FI-00076 Aalto www.aalto.fi Author Mathias Masson Name of the doctoral dissertation Regularity for parabolic quasiminimizers in metric measure spaces Publisher School of Science Unit Department of Mathematics and Systems Analysis Series Aalto University publication series DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS 89/2013 Field of research Mathematical analysis Manuscript submitte...

We demonstrate the existence of accelerating parabolic beams that constitute, together with the Airy beams, the only orthogonal and complete families of solutions of the two-dimensional paraxial wave equation that exhibit the unusual ability to remain diffraction-free and freely accelerate during propagation. Since the accelerating parabolic beams, like the Airy beams, carry infinite energy, we...