EFFECT OF ADSORPTION ON THE VISCOSITY OF DILUTE POLYMER SOLUTION

Careful measurements of the dilute solution viscosities of polyethylene glycol and polyvinyl alcohol in water were carried out. The reduced viscosities of both polymer solutions plot upward curves at extremely dilute concentration levels similar to the phenomena observed for many polymer solutions in the early 1950's. Upon observation of the changes of the flow times of pure water in and the wall surface wettability of the viscometer after measuring solution viscosity, a view was formed that the observed viscosity abnormality at extremely dilute concentration regions is solely due to the effect of adsorption of polymer chains onto the wall surface of viscometer. A theory of adsorption effect based on the Langmuir isotherms was proposed and a mathematical; analysis for data treatment was performed. The theory could adequately describe the existing viscosity data. It seems necessary to correct the viscosity result of dilute polymer solutions measured by glass capillary viscometer by taking into account the effect of adsorption in all cases.

Uniqueness of the Viscosity Solutions for the Initial Value Problem of One Type of Second Order Partial Differential Equation

Aim To prove the uniqueness of the viscosity solutions for the initial value problems of one type of second order parabolic partial differential equations: Methods Using comparison theorem. Results and Conclusion If u0 is uniform continuousfunction in RN , F is continuous function in RNx(N) and F is degenerate elliptic, then thisequation has the sole viscosity solution.

VISCOSITY SOLUTIONS OF HJB EQUATIONS ARISING FROM THE VALUATION OF EUROPEAN PASSPORT OPTIONS

The passport option is a call option on the balance of a trading account. The option holder retains the gain from trading, while the issuer is liable for the net loss. In this article, the mathematical foundation for pricing the European passport option is established. The pricing equation which is a fully nonlinear equation is derived using the dynamic programming principle. The comparison principle, uniqueness and convexity preserving of the viscosity solutions of related H J13 equation are proved. A relationship between the passport and lookback options is discussed.

A STUDY ON GRADIENT BLOW UP FOR VISCOSITY SOLUTIONS OF FULLY NONLINEAR,UNIFORMLY ELLIPTIC EQUATIONS

We investigate sharp conditions for boundary and interior gradient estimates of continuous viscosity solutions to fully nonlinear, uniformly elliptic equations under Dirichlet boundary conditions. When these conditions are violated, there can be blow up of the gradient in the interior or on the boundary of the domain. In particular we de- rive sharp results on local and global Lipschitz continuity of continuous viscosity solutions under more general growth conditions than before. Lipschitz regularity near the boundary allows us to predict when the Dirichlet condition is satisfied in a classical and not just in a viscosity sense, where detachment can occur. Another consequence is this： if interior gra- dient blow up occurs, Perron-type solutions can in general become discontinuous, so that the Dirichlet problem can become unsolvable in the class of continuous viscosity solutions.

Stochastic Viscosity Solutions for SPDEs with Discontinuous Coefficients

In this paper, a class of nonlinear stochastic partial differential equations with discontinuous coefficients is investigated. This study is motivated by some research on stochastic viscosity solutions under non-Lipschitz conditions recently. By studying the solutions of backward doubly stochastic differential equations with discontinuous coefficients and constructing a new approximation function fn to the coefficient f, we get the existence of stochastic viscosity sub-solutions (or super-solutions).The results of this paper can be seen as the extension and application of related articles.

Lipschitz Regularity of Viscosity Solutions to the Infinity Laplace Equation

In this paper, we study the viscosity solutions of the Neumann problem in a bounded C2 domain Ω, where ΔN∞ is called the normalized infinity Laplacian. The normalized infinity Laplacian was first studied by Peres, Shramm, Sheffield and Wilson from the point of randomized theory named tug-of-war, which has wide applications in optimal mass transportation, financial option price problems, digital image processing, physical engineering, etc. We give the Lipschitz regularity of the viscosity solutions of the Neumann problem. The method we adopt is to choose suitable auxiliary functions as barrier functions and combine the perturbation method and viscosity solutions theory. .

THE CONVERGENT RATE OF VISCOSITY METHOD FOR A VARIANT NON-ISENTROPIC SYSTEM OF POLYTROPIC GAS

In this short paper,we remove the restrictionγ∈(1,3]that was used in the paper"The rate of convergence of the viscosity method for a nonlinear hyperbolic system"(Nonlinear Analysis,1999,38:435-445)and obtain a global Holder continuous solution and the convergent rate of the viscosity method for the Cauchy problem of the variant nonisentropic system of polytropic gas for any adiabatic exponentγ>1.

WEAK SOLUTIONS OF MONGE-AMPRE TYPE EQUATIONS IN OPTIMAL TRANSPORTATION

This paper concerns the weak solutions of some Monge-Amp^re type equa- tions in the optimal transportation theory. The relationship between the Aleksandrov solutions and the viscosity solutions of the Monge-Ampere type equations is discussed. A uniform estimate for solution of the Dirichlet problem with homogeneous boundary value is obtained.

SOLUTIONS TO A CLASS OF PARABOLIC INHOMOGENEOUS NORMALIZED p-LAPLACE EQUATIONS

In this article, we prove that viscosity solutions of the parabolic inhomogeneous equationsn＋p/put-△p^Nu=f（x,t）can be characterized using asymptotic mean value properties for all p ≥ 1, including p = 1 and p = ∞. We also obtain a comparison principle for the non-negative or non-positive inhomogeneous term f for the corresponding initial-boundary value problem and this in turn implies the uniqueness of solutions to such a problem.

REGULARITY OF SOLUTIONS TO NONLINEAR TIME FRACTIONAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION

We find an upper viscosity solution and give a proof of the existence-uniqueness in the space C^∞（t∈（0,∞）;H2^s＋2（R^n））∩C^0（t∈[0,∞）;H^s（R^n））,s∈R,to the nonlinear time fractional equation of distributed order with spatial Laplace operator subject to the Cauchy conditions ∫0^2p（β）D＊^βu（x,t）dβ=△xu（x,t）＋f（t,u（t,x））,t≥0,x∈R^n,u（0,x）=φ（x）,ut（0,x）=ψ（x）,（0.1） where △xis the spatial Laplace operator,D＊^β is the operator of fractional differentiation in the Caputo sense and the force term F satisfies the Assumption 1 on the regularity and growth. For the weight function we take a positive-linear combination of delta distributions concentrated at points of interval （0, 2）, i.e., p（β） =m∑k=1bkδ（β-βk）,0〈βk〈2,bk〉0,k=1,2,…,m.The regularity of the solution is established in the framework of the space C^∞（t∈（0,∞）;C^∞（R^n））∩C^0（t∈[0,∞）;C^∞（R^n））when the initial data belong to the Sobolev space H2^8（R^n）,s∈R.

ITSTUDIES ON THE EFFECT OF UREA ON THE COMPATIBILITY OF PMMA/PVC MIXTURES IN DMF BY A DILUTE- SOLUTION VISCOMETRY METHOD

The interaction between poly(methymethacrylate) (PMMA) and poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) has been studied indilute urea solutions of dimethylformamide (DMF) at 28℃ using a dilute solution viscometry method. The results show thatthe polymer mixtures are compatible in DMF solution in the absence of urea. The influence of urea addition on the degree ofcompatibility of the polymer mixtures has been studied in terms of the compatibility parameters (△b_m and △[η]_m). It wasfound that the compatibility of the polymer mixtures is decreased with increasing urea addition, passing through a minimumat 0.5 M urea.

A unique solution to a semilinear Black-Scholes partial differential equation for valuing multi-assets of American options

In this paper, by using the optimal stopping theory, the semilinear Black-Scholes partial differential equation （PDE） was invesigated in a fixed domain for valuing two assets of American （call-max/put-min） options. From the viscosity solution of a PDE, a unique viscosity solution was obtained for the semilinear Black-Scholes PDE.

Image segmentation based on Mumford-Shah functional

In this paper, the authors propose a new model for active contours segmentation in a given image, based on Mumford-Shah functional (Mumford and Shah, 1989). The model is composed of a system of differential and integral equations. By the experimental results we can keep the advantages of Chan and Vese's model (Chan and Vese, 2001 ) and avoid the regularization for Dirac function. More importantly, in theory we prove that the system has a unique viscosity solution.

CAUCHY PROBLEM FOR A DEGENERATE PARABOLIC EQUATION WITH NON-DIVERGENCE FORM

In this article, it is shown that there exists a unique viscosity solution of the Cauchy problem for a degenerate parabolic equation with non-divergence form.

Convergence of the viscosity solution of non-autonomous Hamilton-Jacobi equations

In this paper,we investigate the non-autonomous Hamilton-Jacobi equation{ə_(t)u+H(t,x,ə_(x)=0,u(x,t)_(0))=φ(x),x∈M where H is 1-periodic with respect to t and M is a compact Riemannian manifold without boundary.We obtain the viscosity solution denoted by T_(t_(0))^(t)φ(x)and show T_(t_(0))^(t)φ(x)converges uniformly to a time-periodic viscosity solution u^(*)(x,t)ofə_(t)u+H(t,x,ə_(x)u,u)=0.

Existence of viscosity solutions for ~Iessian equations in exterior domains

The Perron method is used to establish the existence of viscosity solutions to the exterior Dirichlet problems for a class of Hessian type equations with prescribed behavior at infinity.

VISCOSITY SOLUTIONS DEFINED BY RIGHT DIFFERENTIALS

Abstract. It is proved that for some partial differential equations, the classical notion ofviscosity solution can be defined via right-subdifferentials and superdifferentials of contin-uous functions.

Viscosity Solutions to a Parabolic Inhomogeneous Equation Associated with Infinity Laplacian

We obtain the existence and uniqueness results of viscosity solutions to the initial and boundary value problem for a nonlinear degenerate and singular parabolic inhomogeneous equation of the form ut-△ ∞N u=f, where An denotes the so-called normalized infinity Laplacian given by △∞ Nu=1/｜Du｜2〈D2uDu,Du〉.

Existence and Uniqueness of Viscosity Solutions for Nonlinear Variational Inequalities Associated with Mixed Control

The author investigates the nonlinear parabolic variational inequality derived from the mixed stochastic control problem on finite horizon.Supposing that some suffi-ciently smooth conditions hold,by the dynamic programming principle,the author builds the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman(HJB for short)variational inequality for the value function.The author also proves that the value function is the unique viscosity solution of the HJB variational inequality and gives an application to the quasi-variational inequality.

Regularity of viscosity solutions near KAM torus

In this paper, we give weak regularity theorems on P of u ?(x, P), where u ?(x, P) is the viscosity solution of the cell problem H ?(P + D x u ?, x) = $\overline H _\varepsilon $ (P).