This article is devoted to the explanation of the onset of localization and the formation of shear bands in high strain-rate plasticity of metals. We employ the Arrhenius constitutive model and show Hadamard instability for the linearized problem. For the nonlinear model, using an asymptotic procedure motivated by the theory of relaxation and the Chapman-Enskog expansion, we derive an effective...

In this work we propose a numerical scheme for a nonlinear and degenerate parabolic problem having application in petroleum reservoir and groundwater aquifer simulation. The degeneracy of the equation includes both locally fast and slow diffusion (i.e. the diffusion coefficients may explode or vanish in some point). The main difficulty is that the true solution is typically lacking in regularit...

This paper is concerned with the time discretization of nonlinear evolution equations. We work in an abstract Banach space setting of analytic semigroups that covers fully nonlinear parabolic initial-boundary value problems with smooth coefficients. We prove convergence of variable stepsize backward Euler discretizations under various smoothness assumptions on the exact solution. We further sho...

We study the homogenization property of systems of quasi-linear PDEs of parabolic type with periodic coefficients, highly oscillating drift and highly oscillating nonlinear term. To this end, we propose a probabilistic approach based on the theory of forward–backward stochastic differential equations and introduce the new concept of " auxiliary SDEs. " 1. Introduction and assumptions.

We study a new class of backward stochastic di€erential equations, which involves the integral with respect to a continuous increasing process. This allows us to give a probabilistic formula for solutions of semilinear partial di€erential equations with Neumann boundary condition, where the boundary condition itself is nonlinear. We consider both parabolic and elliptic equations.

We analyze stability properties of BDF methods of order up to 5 for linear parabolic equations as well as of implicit–explicit BDF methods for nonlinear parabolic equations by energy techniques; time dependent norms play also a key role in the analysis.

We consider an elliptic PDE in two variables. As one parameter approaches zero, this PDE collapses to a parabolic one, that is forward parabolic in a part of the domain and backward parabolic in the remainder. Such problems arise naturally in various stochastic models, such as fluid models for data-handling systems and Markov-modulated queues. We employ singular perturbation methods to study th...