Let (M, g) be a four dimensional compact Riemannian manifold without boundary, (N, h) ⊂ R be a compact Riemannian submanifold without boundary. We establish the existence of a global weak solution to the heat flow of extrinsic biharmonic maps from M to N , which is smooth away from finitely many singular times. As a consequence, we prove that if Π4(N) = {0}, then any free homotopy class α ∈ [M,...

We consider a single Chua’s circuit and a system of a unidirectionally coupled n-Chua’s circuits driven by a biharmonic signal with two widely different frequencies ω and Ω, where Ω ω. We show experimental evidence for vibrational resonance in the single Chua’s circuit and undamped signal propagation of a low-frequency signal in the system of n-coupled Chua’s circuits where only the first circu...

This paper reports a new spectral collocation method for numerically solving two-dimensional biharmonic boundary-value problems. The construction of the Chebyshev approximations is based on integration rather than conventional differentiation. This use of integration allows: (i) the imposition of the governing equation at the whole set of grid points including the boundary points and (ii) the s...

Abstract. We modify the usual biharmonic model, still frequently used in the engineering community to model linearly elastic plates. In its traditional form, the biharmonic model diverges in general, since it does not incorporate shear effects. Our changes make it convergent for all loads, under a usual assumption on how the loads depend on the thickness. The idea is to add “higher order” terms...

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...

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

let denote the unit circle in the complex plane. given a function , one uses t usual (harmonic) poisson kernel for the unit disk to define the poisson integral of , namely . here we consider the biharmonic poisson kernel for the unit disk to define the notion of -integral of a given function ; this associated biharmonic function will be denoted by . we then consider the dilations for and . the ...

In order to explore a new approach to construct surfaces bounded by geodesics or lines of curvature, a method of surface modeling based on fourth-order partial differential equations (PDEs) is presented. Compared with the free-form surface modeling based on finding control points, PDE-based surface modeling has the following three advantages. First, the corresponding biharmonic surface can natu...