This paper studies conformal biharmonic immersions. We first study the transformations of Jacobi operator and the bitension field under conformal change of metrics. We then obtain an invariant equation for a conformal biharmonic immersion of a surface into Euclidean 3-space. As applications, we construct a 2-parameter family of non-minimal conformal biharmonic immersions of cylinder into R and ...

In this article we prove the regularity of weakly biharmonic maps of domains in Euclidean four space into spheres, as well as the corresponding partial regularity result of stationary biharmonic maps of higher-dimensional domains into spheres. c © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Introduction In this article we consider the notion of biharmonic maps and begin an analytic study of the regularity pro...

‎Using variational arguments‎, ‎we prove the existence of infinitely‎ ‎many solutions to a class of $p$-biharmonic equation in‎ ‎$mathbb{R}^N$‎. ‎The existence of‎ ‎nontrivial‎ ‎solution is established under a new‎ ‎set of hypotheses on the potential $V(x)$ and the weight functions‎ ‎$h_1(x)‎, ‎h_2(x)$‎.

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...

An analytical method to find the flow generated by the basic singularities of Stokes flow in a wedge of arbitrary angle is presented. Specifically, we solve a biharmonic equation for the stream function of the flow generated by a point stresslet singularity and satisfying no-slip boundary conditions on the two walls of the wedge. The method, which is readily adapted to any other singularity typ...

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.

We study the positive, regular, radially symmetric solutions to the nonlinear biharmonic equation ∆φ = φ. First, we show that there exists a critical value pc, depending on the space dimension, such that the solutions are linearly unstable if p < pc and linearly stable if p ≥ pc. Then, we focus on the supercritical case p ≥ pc and we show that the graphs of no two solutions intersect one another.

Using three critical points theorems, we prove the existence of at least three solutions for a quasilinear biharmonic equation.

We first obtain Liouville type results for stable entire solutions of the biharmonic equation −∆2u = u−p in R for p > 1 and 3 ≤ N ≤ 12. Then we consider the Navier boundary value problem for the corresponding equation and improve the known results on the regularity of the extremal solution for 3 ≤ N ≤ 12. As a consequence, in the case of p = 2, we show that the extremal solution u∗ is regular w...