We give a new bound on the exponent for nonexistence of stable solutions to the biharmonic problem ∆u = u, u > 0 in R where p > 1, n ≥ 20.

We report the phenomenon of vibrational resonance in a single species and a two species models of groundwater-dependent plant ecosystems with a biharmonic oscillation (with two widely different frequencies ω and Ω, Ω ≫ ω) of the water table depth. In these two systems, the response amplitude of the species biomass shows multiple resonances with different mechanisms. The resonance occurs at both...

A mixed formulation with two main variables, based on the Ciarlet-Raviart technique, with 0 C continuity shape functions is employed for the solution of some types of biharmonic equations in 1-D. The continuous and discrete Babuška-Brezzi inf-sup conditions are established. The formulation is numerically tested for both the hand pextensions. The model problems involve the standard biharmonic eq...

Recently the biharmonic form of the Navier-Stokes (N-S) equations have been solved in various domains by using second order compact discretization. In this paper, we present a fourth order essentially compact (4OEC) finite difference scheme for the steady N-S equations in geometries beyond rectangular. As a further advancement to the earlier formulations on the classical biharmonic equation tha...

We give a characterization of functions that are uniformly approximable on a compact subset K of R by biharmonic functions in neighborhoods of K.

We give a differential geometric interpretation for the classification of biharmonic curves in semi-Euclidean 3-space due to Chen and Ishikawa (1991).

A Fredholm second kind integral equation (SKIE) formulation is constructed for the Dirichlet problem of the biharmonic equation in three dimensions. A fast numerical algorithm is developed based on the constructed SKIE. Its performance is illustrated via several numerical examples.