Title
Non-existence of positive stationary solutions for a class of semi-linear PDEs with random coefficients
Abstract
We consider a so-called random obstacle model for the motion of a hypersurface through a field of random obstacles, driven by a constant driving field. The resulting semi-linear parabolic PDE with random coefficients does not admit a global nonnegative stationary solution, which implies that an interface that was flat originally cannot get stationary. The absence of global stationary solutions is shown by proving lower bounds on the growth of stationary solutions on large domains with Dirichlet boundary conditions. Difficulties arise because the random lower order part of the equation cannot be bounded uniformly.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.3934/nhm.2010.5.745
NETWORKS AND HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA
Keywords
Field
DocType
Qualitative behavior of parabolic PDEs with random coefficients,Random obstacles,Interface evolution in Random media
Parabolic partial differential equation,Random element,Mathematical optimization,Random field,Mathematical analysis,Dirichlet boundary condition,Hypersurface,Stationary sequence,Mathematics,Random compact set,Bounded function
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
5
4
1556-1801
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.63
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jérôme Coville152.39
Nicolas Dirr243.26
Stephan Luckhaus341.11