boundary effect on asymptotic behaviour of solutions to the p system with linear damping we consider the asymptotic behaviour of solutions to the p system with linear damping on the half line r 0 vt ux 0 ut p v x u with the dirichlet boundary condition u x 0 0 or the neumann boundary condition ux x 0 0 the initial date v0 u0 x has the constant state v u at x l hsiao and t p liu commun math phys 143 1992 599 605 have shown that the solution to the corresponding cauchy problem behaves like diffusion wave and k nishihara j differential equations131 1996 171 188 137 1997 384 395 has proved its optimal convergence rate our main concern in this paper is the boundary effect in the case of null dirichlet boundary condition on u the solution v u is proved to tend to v 0 as t tends to infinity its optimal convergence rate is also obtained by using the green function of the diffusion equation with constant coefficients in the case of null neumann boundary condition on u v 0 t is conservative and v 0 t v0 0 by virtue of the first equation so that v x t is expected to tend to the diffusion wave v x t connecting v0 0 and v in fact the solution v u x t is proved to tend to v x t 0 in the special case v0 0 v the optimal convergence rate is also obtained however this is not known in the case v0 0 v

initial boundary value problem for the system of compressible adiabatic flow through porous media abstract we study the initial value problem for the system of compressible adiabatic flow through porous media in the one space dimension with fixed boundary condition under the restriction on the oscillations in the initial data we establish the global existence and large time behavior for the classical solutions via the combination of characteristic analysis and energy estimate methods the time asymptotic states for the solution are found and the exponential convergence to the asymptotic states is proved it is also shown that this problem can be approximated very well time asymptotically by an initial boundary problem for the related diffusion equations obtained from the original hyperbolic system by darcy s law provided that the initial total mass is the same the difference between these two solutions tends to zero exponentially fast as time goes to infinity in the sense of h 1 the diffusive phenomena caused by damping mechanism with boundary effects are thus observed

blow up of solutions to 1 d euler equations with time dependent damping abstract we study the 1 d isentropic euler equations with time dependent damping t x u 0 t u x u 2 x p 1 t u t 0 1 e 0 x u t 0 e u 0 x in a previous paper 8 we have proven that when 1 2 the 1 d euler equations have global existence of small data solutions however in this paper we will show that when the damping with respect to time decays faster or equal to 2 1 t the c 1 solution of the above system will blow up in finite time more precisely when 1 0 2 or 1 0 we will give a finite upper bound for the lifespan combining the results in this paper and 8 we see that when the damping decays with time like 1 t the critical exponents for to separate the global existence and finite time blow up of small data solutions are 1 2

convergence to nonlinear diffusion waves for solutions of a system of hyperbolic conservation laws with damping we consider a model of hyperbolic conservation laws with damping and show that the solutions tend to those of a nonlinear parabolic equation time asymptotically the hyperbolic model may be viewed as isentropic euler equations with friction term added to the momentum equation to model gas flow through a porous media in this case our result justifies darcy s law time asymptotically our model may also be viewed as an elastic model with damping

l 1 convergence to the barenblatt solution for compressible euler equations with damping we study the asymptotic behavior of compressible isentropic flow through a porous medium when the initial mass is finite the model system is the compressible euler equation with frictional damping as t the density is conjectured to obey the well known porous medium equation and the momentum is expected to be formulated by darcy s law in this paper we prove that any l weak entropy solution to the cauchy problem of damped euler equations with finite initial mass converges strongly in the natural l1 topology with decay rates to the barenblatt profile of the porous medium equation the density function tends to the barenblatt solution of the porous medium equation while the momentum is described by darcy s law the results are achieved through a comprehensive entropy analysis capturing the dissipative character of the problem

best asymptotic profile for linear damped p system with boundary effect abstract this paper is devoted to the study of the 2 2 linear damped p system with boundary effect by a heuristic analysis we realize that the best asymptotic profile for the original solution is the parabolic solution of the ibvp for the corresponding porous media equation with a specified initial data in particular we further show the convergence rates of the original solution to its best asymptotic profile which are much better than the existing rates obtained in the previous works the approach adopted in the paper is the elementary weighted energy method with green function method together

convergence to strong nonlinear diffusion waves for solutions to p system with damping in this paper we consider the so called p system with linear damping and we will prove an optimal decay estimates without any smallness conditions on the initial error more precisely if we restrict the initial data v0 u0 in the space h3 r l1 r h2 r l1 r then we can derive faster decay estimates than those given in p marcati m mei b rubino optimal convergence rates to diffusion waves for solutions of the hyperbolic conservation laws with damping j math fluid mech 7 2 2005 224 240 h zhao convergence to strong nonlinear diffusion waves for solutions of p system with damping j differential equations 174 1 2001 200 236 and m jian c zhu convergence to strong nonlinear diffusion waves for solutions to p system with damping on quadrant j differential equations 246 1 2009 50 77

frequency localization duhamel principle and its application to the optimal decay of dissipative systems in low dimensions abstract recently a time decay framework l 2 r n b 2 s r n s 0 has been given by 49 for linearized dissipative hyperbolic systems which allows to pay less attention to the traditional spectral analysis however owing to interpolation techniques those decay results for nonlinear hyperbolic systems hold true only in higher dimensions n 3 and the analysis in low dimensions say n 1 2 was left open we try to give a satisfactory answer in the current work first of all we develop new time decay properties on the frequency localization duhamel principle and then it is shown that the classical solution and its derivatives of fractional order decay at the optimal algebraic rate in dimensions n 1 2 by using a new technique which is the so called piecewise duhamel principle in localized time weighted energy approaches compared to 49 finally as direct applications explicit decay statements are worked out for some relevant examples subjected to the same dissipative structure for instance damped compressible euler equations the thermoelasticity with second sound and timoshenko systems with equal wave speeds

convergence to nonlinear diffusion waves for solutions of p system with time dependent damping abstract in this paper we study the cauchy problem for the hyperbolic p system with time gradually degenerate damping term 1 1 t u for 0 1 and show that the damped p system has a couple of global solutions uniquely and such solutions tend time asymptotically to the shifted nonlinear diffusion waves which are the solutions of the corresponding nonlinear parabolic equation governed by the darcy s law we further derive the convergence rates when the initial perturbations are in l 2 the approach adopted is the technical time weighted energy method

multivariate generalizations of cumulative sum quality control schemes this article presents the design procedures and average run lengths for two mulativariater cumulative sum cusum quality control procedures the first cusum procedure reduces each multivariate observation to a scalar and then forms a cusum of the scalars the second cusum procedure forms a cusum vector directly from the observations these two procedures are compared with each other and with the multivariate shewhart chart other multivariate quality control procedures are mentioned robustness the fast initial response feature for cusum schemes and combined shewhart cusum schemes are discussed

convergence to strong nonlinear diffusion waves for solutions to p system with damping on quadrant in this paper we consider the so called p system with linear damping on quadrant we show that for a certain class of given large initial data v0 x u0 x the corresponding initial boundary value problem admits a unique global smooth solution v x t u x t and such a solution tends time asymptotically at the lp 2 p optimal decay rates to the corresponding nonlinear diffusion wave v x t u x t which satisfies 1 9 provided the corresponding prescribed initial error function v0 x u0 x lies in h3 r l1 r h2 r l1 r

on doubling inequalities for elliptic systems abstract we prove doubling inequalities for solutions of elliptic systems with an iterated laplacian as diagonal principal part and for solutions of the lame system of isotropic linearized elasticity these inequalities depend on global properties of the solutions

l1 convergence rates to the barenblatt solution for the damped compressible euler equations abstract in our previous work 17 it is shown that any l weak entropy solution of damped compressible euler equation converges to the barrenblatt s solution with finite mass in l 1 norm with a convergence rate for 1 3 in this paper by introducing an elaborate iterative method and using the intensive entropy analysis we prove the l 1 convergence to the barrenblatt s solution for any large 3 furthermore we get better l 1 convergence rate for 2 3

on the markov chain approach to the two sided cusum procedure a markov chain representation is given for the two sided possibly asymmetric cumulative sum cusum procedure of ewan and kemp 1960 for integer valued random variables the approach taken by brook and evans 1972 for the one sided cusum procedure to determine exact and approximate expressions for the run length distribution its moments and its percentage points is extended to the two sided cusum procedure the number of states included in the markov chain is minimized in order to make the methods as efftcient as possible

diffusive relaxation limit of classical solutions to the damped compressible euler equations abstract we construct uniform global classical solutions to the damped compressible euler equations on the framework of general besov spaces which includes both the usual sobolev spaces h s r d s 1 d 2 and the critical besov space b 2 1 1 d 2 r d such extension heavily depends on a revision of commutator estimates and an elementary fact that indicates the connection between homogeneous and inhomogeneous chemin lerner spaces furthermore we obtain the diffusive relaxation limit of euler equations towards the porous medium equation by means of aubin lions compactness argument

global solution and large time behavior of the 3d compressible euler equations with damping national natural science foundation of china nsaf 10976026 national natural science foundation of china 11271305

asymptotic behaviors of solutions of quasilinear hyperbolic equations with linear damping ii this paper as a follow up to the recent work of k nishihara 1997 j differential equations133 384 395 is concerned with the asymptotic behaviors of the solution of quasilinear hyperbolic equation with linear damping vtt a vx x vt 0 a v 0forallv r which satisfies the following prescribed initial condition v t x vt t x t 0 v0 x v1 x x r compared with the results obtained by k nishihara the main novelties of our present paper lie in the following first we recover all the results obtained by k nishihara under some other smallness assumptions on the initial data v0 x v1 x which are much weaker than those needed in k nishihara s arguments second under some additional assumptions on the nonlinear function a v and on the initial data v0 x v1 x when 0 0 1 0 we succeed in proving that t x is still an asymptotic profile of v t x and this answers partially the open problem left by k nishihara

l p convergence rates of planar waves for multi dimensional euler equations with damping abstract in this paper the l p convergence rates of planar diffusion waves for multi dimensional euler equations with damping are considered the analysis relies on a newly introduced frequency decomposition and green function based energy method it is a combination of the l p estimate on the low frequency component by using an approximate green function and l 2 estimate on the high frequency component through the energy method by noticing that the low frequency component in the approximate green function has the algebraic decay which governs the large time behavior while the high frequency component has the exponential decay but with singularity their combination leads to a global algebraic decay estimate to use the decay property only of the low frequency component in the approximate green function avoids the singularity in the high frequency component so that it simplifies and improves the previous works on this system this new approach of the combination of the green function and energy method through the frequency decomposition can also be applied to the hyperbolic parabolic systems satisfying the kawashima condition and also the systems whose derivatives of the coefficients have suitable time decay properties

initial boundary value problem for p system with damping in half space abstract in this paper the initial boundary value problem for p system with damping in half space is studied with a posed mix boundary condition the fundamental solution green s function for cauchy problem is constructed with a sharp decaying structure and a precise capture of the singularity by a singularity removal process later the symbols of both fundamental solution and green s function for initial boundary value problem are obtained with transformed variable s and spatial variable x while in this level the green s function could be decomposed into fundamental solution and boundary operator thus with the study of boundary operator and previous precise information about the fundamental solution the pointwise structure as well as the singular structure of the green s function is established finally the nonlinear stability is obtained by the green s function and a priori estimate from energy method

pointwise estimates and lp convergence rates to diffusion waves for p system with damping abstract by introducing a new approximate green function we obtain the pointwise estimates on the solutions of euler equations with linear frictional damping from which we can deduce the optimal l p 1 p convergence rates to the nonlinear diffusion waves the pointwise estimates and l p 1 p convergence rates given in this paper are new

the lp lq estimates of solutions to one dimensional damped wave equations and their application to the compressible flow through porous media we first obtain the lp lq estimates of solutions to the cauchy problem for one dimensional damped wave equation vtt vxx vt 0 v vt t 0 v0 v1 x x t r r corresponding to that for the parabolic equation t xx 0 t 0 v0 v1 x the estimates are shown by v t e t 2v0 t v0 t 2lp ct 121q 1p 1 v0 v1 lq t 1 etc for 1 q p to show the explicit formula of the damped wave equation will be used to apply the estimates to nonlinear problems is the second aim we will treat the system of a compressible flow through porous media the solution is expected to behave as the diffusion wave which is the solution to the porous media equation due to the darcy law when the initial data has the same constant state at a sharp lp convergence rate for p 2 has been recently obtained by nishihara proc roy soc edinburgh sect a 133a 2003 1 20 by choosing a suitably located diffusion wave we will show the l1 convergence applying

l p convergence rates of solutions for n dimensional quasilinear damped wave equation we realize the asymptotic profile for the solutions to the n dimensional quasilinear damped wave equation in the divergence form is the solution of the corresponding linear parabolic equation with special initial data and we further show the lp 1 p infinity in particular p 1 convergence rates to this linear asymptotic profile c 2013 elsevier inc all rights reserved

large time behavior for the system of compressible adiabatic flow through porous media in r3 abstract the cauchy problem of the system of compressible adiabatic flow through porous media in r 3 is considered we obtain the global existence and large time behavior of the solution when the initial data is close to its equilibrium in h 3 norm this is a continuing work of 31 where due to non dissipative property of the entropy s an additional assumption that the initial data is bounded in l 1 norm plays a key role in closing the a priori energy estimates and hence establishing the global existence of the solution in this paper to remove this assumption we first decompose the solution u into high frequency part u h and low frequency part u l then by constructing delicate energy functionals for u h and optimal decay rates for u l we can get the desired energy estimates to close the a priori assumption furthermore we get the optimal l 2 l 2 decay rate of the solution and show that the velocity decays faster than the density

lp convergence rate to nonlinear diffusion waves for p system with damping abstract in this paper we study the p system with frictional damping and show that the solutions time asymptotically tend to the nonlinear diffusion waves governed by the classical darcy s law by introducing an approximate green function we obtain the optimal l p 2 p convergence rate of the solution which is a perturbation of the nonlinear diffusion wave to the hyperbolic system

convergence to strong nonlinear diffusion waves for solutions of p system with damping this paper is concerned with the p system with frictional damping and our main purpose is two fold first we show that for a certain class of given large initial data nu 0 x u 0 x the cauchy problem 1 1 1 2 admits a unique global smooth solution nu t x u t x and such a solution tends time asymptotically at the optimal l p 2 less than or equal to p less than or equal to infinity decay rates to the corresponding nonlinear diffusion wave over bar t x u over bar t x governed by the classical darcy s law provided that the corresponding prescribed initial error function v 0 x u 0 x ties in h 3 x h 2 r boolean and l 1 x l 1 r compared with former results in this direction obtained by l hsiao and t p liu 1992 comm math phys 143 599 605 k nishihara 1996 j differential equations 131 171 188 and k nishihara w k wang and t yang 2000 j differential equations 161 191 218 our main novelty lies in the facts that the nonlinear diffusion wave over bar t x u over bar t x need not to be weak and v 0 x u 0 x can be chosen arbitrarily large secondly we show that the nonlinear diffusion waves over bar t x u over bar t x are nonlinear stable provided that the strength or the nonlinear diffusion waves is weak and that the initial disturbance v 0 x u 0 x satisfies the assumption that parallel tov 0xx x parallel to l infinity parallel tou 0x x parallel to l infinity is sufficiently small we also show that the smallness assumption imposed oil the strength of the diffusion waves is a necessary condition to guarantee the nonlinear stability result and compared with the corresponding results obtained by l hsiao and t p liu 1992 comm math phys 143 599 605 the smallness conditions we imposed on the initial disturbance are much more weaker c 2001 academic press

convergence to the barenblatt solution for the compressible euler equations with damping and vacuum we study the asymptotic behavior of a compressible isentropic flow through a porous medium when the initial mass is finite the model system is the compressible euler equation with frictional damping as t the density is conjectured to obey the well known porous medium equation and the momentum is expected to be formulated by darcy s law in this paper we give a definite answer to this conjecture without any assumption on smallness or regularity for the initial data we prove that any l weak entropy solution to the cauchy problem of damped euler equations with finite initial mass converges strongly in lp with decay rates to matching barenblatt s profile of the porous medium equation the density function tends to the barenblatt s solution of the porous medium equation while the momentum is described by darcy s law

the pointwise estimates of solutions for euler equations with damping in multi dimensions we study the time asymptotic behavior of solutions for the isentropic euler equations with damping in multi dimensions the global existence and pointwise estimates of the solutions are obtained furthermore we obtain the optimal lp 1 p convergence rate of the solution when it is a perturbation of a constant state our approach is based on a detailed analysis of the green function of the linearized system and some energy estimates

anisotropic linear elastic parameter estimation using error in the constitutive equation functional a modified error in the constitutive equation based approach for identification of heterogeneous and linear anisotropic elastic parameters involving static measurements is proposed and explored following an alternating minimization procedure associated with the underlying optimization problem the new strategy results in an explicit material parameter update formula for general anisotropic material this immediately allows us to derive the necessary constraints on measured data and thus restrictions on physical experimentation to achieve the desired reconstruction we consider a few common materials to derive such conditions then we exploit the invariant relationships of the anisotropic constitutive tensor to propose an identification procedure for space dependent material orientations finally we assess the numerical efficacy of the developed tools against a few parameter identification problems of engineering interest

convergence rate for compressible euler equations with damping and vacuum we study the asymptotic behavior of l weak entropy solutions to the compressible euler equations with damping and vacuum previous works on this topic are mainly concerned with the case away from the vacuum and small initial data in the present paper we prove that the entropy weak solution strongly converges to the similarity solution of the porous media equations in lp r 2 p with decay rates the initial data can contain vacuum and can be arbitrary large a new approach is introduced to control the singularity near vacuum for the desired estimates

global existence of solutions to 1 d euler equations with time dependent damping abstract in this paper we study the 1 d isentropic euler equations with time dependent damping our damping decays at a speed of order 1 with respect to time which is a little weaker than the linear one under our assumption we will prove the global existence of solutions to the euler system and obtain l 2 and l estimates for the solutions our approach is based on some detailed energy estimates

a new two sided cumulative sum quality control scheme a new two sided cumulative sum quality control scheme is proposed the new scheme was developed specifically to be generalized to a multivariate cumulative sum quality control scheme the multivariate version will be examined in a subsequent paper this article evaluates the univariate version a comparison of the conventional two sided cumulative sum scheme and the proposed scheme indicates that the new scheme has slightly better properties ratio of on aim to off aim average run lengths than the conventional scheme steady state average run lengths are discussed the new scheme and the conventional two sided cumulative sum scheme have equivalent steady state average run lengths methods for implementing the fast initial response feature for the new cumulative sum scheme are given a comparison of average run lengths for the conventional and proposed schemes with fast initial response features is also favorable to the new scheme a markov chain approximation is used to calculate the average run lengths

asymptotic behavior of solutions of quasilinear hyperbolic equations with linear damping we consider the asymptotic behavior of the solution of quasilinear hyperbolic equation with linear dampingvtt a vx x vt 0 x t r 0 subsequent to k nishihara j differential equations131 1996 171 188 in that article the system with dampingvt ux 0 ut p v x u p v 0 was treated and the convergence rates to the diffusion wave by l hsiao and t p liu comm math phys 143 1992 599 605 and l hsiao and t p liu chinese ann math ser b14 1993 465 480 were improved for initial data v0 u0 x satisfying v0 u0 v0 0 and v0 x v0 dx 0 this system is reduced to the quasilinear hyperbolic equation with linear dampingvtt p v0 vx p v0 x vt 0 and the decay rates v t l o t 1 2 vx t l o t 1 vt t l o t 3 2 were obtained provided that v vt t 0 h3 h2 is small and inl1 l1 from these decay rates vis expected to behave as a solution to the parabolic equation the aims of this paper are to seek the asymptotic profile x t satisfying t l o t 1 2 x t l o t 1 t t l o t 3 2 and to show that the solution of satisfies v t l o t 1 v x t l o t 3 2 v t t l o t 2 the proof is based on the elementary energy method and the green function method for the parabolic equation

cusum charts with variable sampling intervals a standard cumulative sum cusum chart for controlling the process mean takes samples from the process at fixed length sampling intervals and uses a control statistic based on a cumulative sum of differences between the sample means and the target value this article proposes a modification of the standard cusum scheme that varies the time intervals between samples depending on the value of the cusum control statistic the variable sampling interval vsi cusum chart uses short sampling intervals if there is an indication that the process mean may have shifted and long sampling intervals if there is no indication of a change in the mean if the cusum statistic actually enters the signal region then the vsi cusum chart signals in the same manner as the standard cusum chart a markov chain approach is used to evaluate properties such as the average time to signal and the average number of samples to signal results show that the proposed vsi cusum chart is considerably more efficient than the standard cus

adjoint weighted variational formulation for the direct solution of inverse problems of general linear elasticity with full interior data we describe a novel variational formulation of inverse elasticity problems given interior data the class of problems considered is rather general and includes as special cases plane deformations compressibility and incompressiblity in isotropic materials 3d deformations and anisotropy the strong form of this problem is governed by equations of pure advective transport the variational formulation is based on a generalization of the adjoint weighted variational equation awe formulation originally developed for flow of a passive scalar we describe how to apply awe to various cases and prove several properties we prove that the galerkin discretization of the awe formulation leads to a stable convergent numerical method and prove optimal rates of convergence the numerical examples demonstrate optimal convergence of the method with mesh refinement for multiple unknown material parameters graceful performance in the presence of noise and robust behavior of the method when the target solution is c c0 or discontinuous copyright 2009 john wiley sons ltd

exponentially weighted moving average control schemes properties and enhancements roberts 1959 first introduced the exponentially weighted moving average ewma control scheme using simulation to evaluate its properties he showed that the ewma is useful for detecting small shifts in the mean of a process the recognition that an ewma control scheme can be represented as a markov chain allows its properties to be evaluated more easily and completely than has previously been done in this article we evaluate the properties of an ewma control scheme used to monitor the mean of a normally distributed process that may experience shifts away from the target value a design procedure for ewma control schemes is given parameter values not commonly used in the literature are shown to be useful for detecting small shifts in a process in addition several enhancements to ewma control schemes are considered these include a fast initial response feature that makes the ewma control scheme more sensitive to start up problems a combined shewhart ewma that provides protection against both larg

reconstruction of coefficients in scalar second order elliptic equations from knowledge of their solutions this paper concerns the reconstruction of possibly complex valued coefficients in a second order scalar elliptic equation that is posed on a bounded domain from knowledge of several solutions of that equation we show that for a sufficiently large number of solutions and for an open set of corresponding boundary conditions all coefficients can be uniquely and stably reconstructed up to a well characterized gauge transformation we also show that in some specific situations a minimum number of such available solutions equal to is sufficient to uniquely and globally reconstruct the unknown coefficients this theory finds applications in several coupled physics medical imaging modalities including photo acoustic tomography transient elastography and magnetic resonance elastography 2013 wiley periodicals inc

pointwise convergence to shock waves for viscous conservation laws we are interested in the pointwise behavior of the perturbations of shock waves for viscous conservation laws it is shown that besides a translation of the shock waves and of linear and nonlinear diffusion waves of heat and burgers equations a perturbation also gives rise to algebraically decaying terms which measure the coupling of waves of different characteristic families our technique is a combination of time asymptotic expansion construction of approximate green functions and analysis of nonlinear wave interactions the pointwise estimates yield optimal lp convergence of the perturbation to the shock and diffusion waves 1 p the new approach of obtaining pointwise estimates based on the green functions for the linearized system and the analysis of nonlinear wave interactions is also useful for studying the stability of waves of distinct types and nonclassical shocks these are being explored elsewhere 1997 john wiley sons inc

asymptotic behavior for scalar viscous conservation laws with boundary effect abstract we consider the asymptotic stability of viscous shock wave for scalar viscous conservation lawsut f u x uxxon the half space 0 with boundary valuesu x u u x 0 u our problem is divided into three cases depending on the sign of shock speedsof the shock u u whens 0 the asymptotic state ofubecomes d t whered t depends implicitly on the initial datau x 0 and is related to the boundary layer of the solution at the boundaryx 0 the stability of this state fors 0 is also treated

reconstruction of a fully anisotropic elasticity tensor from knowledge of displacement fields we present explicit reconstruction algorithms for fully anisotropic unknown elasticity tensors from knowledge of a finite number of internal displacement fields with applications to transient elastography under certain rank maximality assumptions satisfied by the strain fields explicit algebraic reconstruction formulas are provided a discussion ensues on how to fulfill these assumptions describing the range of validity of the approach we also show how the general method can be applied to more specific cases such as the transversely isotropic one

asymptotic stability of solutions to the hamilton jacobi equation abstract this paper is concerned with the asymptotic behavior of the solution for the generalized hamilton jacobi equation u t f d u u it is known that one dimensional equation v t c 0 v x 2 v x x has a self similar solution v x 1 t if v v where v v t v v t this kind of solution is called planar diffusion wave in multi dimension m d in this paper it is shown that under some smallness conditions the solutions to the generalized hamilton jacobi equation converge to the above diffusion wave v x 1 t with c 0 1 2 2 f 1 2 n 1 2 1 0 as time tends to infinity the convergence rate in time is also obtained

nonlinear diffusion waves for hyperbolic p system with nonlinear damping abstract this paper is concerned with the p system of hyperbolic conservation laws with nonlinear damping when the constant states are small the solutions of the cauchy problem for the damped p system globally exist and converge to their corresponding nonlinear diffusion waves which are the solutions of the corresponding nonlinear parabolic equation given by the darcy s law the optimal convergence rates are also obtained in order to overcome the difficulty caused by the nonlinear damping a couple of correction functions have been technically constructed the approach adopted is the elementary energy method together with the technique of approximating green function on the other hand when the constant states are large the solutions of the cauchy problem for the p system will blow up at a finite time

stable determination of a lame coefficient by one internal measurement of displacement abstract in this paper we show that the shear modulus of an isotropic elastic body can be stably recovered by the knowledge of one single displacement field whose boundary data can be assigned independently on the unknown elasticity tensor