The coefficients for a nine-point high-order accuracy discretization scheme for a biharmonic equation∇4u = f(x, y) (∇2 is the two-dimensional Laplacian operator) are derived. The biharmonic problem is defined on a rectangular domain with two types of boundary conditions: (1) u and ∂u/∂n or (2) u and ∂u/∂n (where ∂/∂n is the normal to the boundary derivative) are specified at the boundary. For b...

A Laguerre minimal surface is an immersed surface in R being an extremal of the functional ∫ (H/K− 1)dA. In the present paper, we prove that any ruled Laguerre minimal surface distinct from a plane is up to motion a convolution of the helicoid x = y tan z, the cycloid r(t) = (t− sin t, 1−cos t, 0) and the Plücker conoid (ax+ by) = z(x+y) for some a, b ∈ R. To achieve invariance under Laguerre t...

Abstract. We consider multigrid algorithms for the biharmonic problem discretized by conforming 1 finite elements. Most finite elements for the biharmonic equation are nonnested in the sense that the coarse finite element space is not a subspace of the space of similar elements defined on a refined mesh. To define multigrid methods, certain intergrid transfer operators have to be constructed. W...

For the first biharmonic problem a mixed variational formulation is introduced which is equivalent to a standard primal variational formulation on arbitrary polygonal domains. Based on a Helmholtz decomposition for an involved nonstandard Sobolev space it is shown that the biharmonic problem is equivalent to three (consecutively to solve) second-order elliptic problems. Two of them are Poisson ...

For a domain R and a Riemannian manifold N R. If u 2 W ( ; N) is an extrinsic (or intrinsic, respectively) biharmonic map. Then u 2 C( ; N). x

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 prove that a stationary extrinsic (or intrinsic, respectively) biharmonic map u 2 W ( ; N) from R into a Riemnanian manifold N is smooth away from a closed set of (m 4)-dimensional Hausdor measure zero. x

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.