The asymptotic behaviour of the heat equation in a twisted Dirichlet-Neumann waveguide
Krejcirik D, Zuazua E (2011)
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2011
Journal
Book Volume: 250
Pages Range: 2334-2346
Journal Issue: 5
DOI: 10.1016/j.jde.2010.11.005
Abstract
We consider the heat equation in a straight strip, subject to a combination of Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions. We show that a switch of the respective boundary conditions leads to an improvement of the decay rate of the heat semigroup of the order of t(-1/2). The proof employs similarity variables that lead to a non-autonomous parabolic equation in a thin strip contracting to the real line, that can be analysed on weighted Sobolev spaces in which the operators under consideration have discrete spectra. A careful analysis of its asymptotic behaviour shows that an added Dirichlet boundary condition emerges asymptotically at the switching point, breaking the real line in two half-lines, which leads asymptotically to the 1/2 gain on the spectral lower bound, and the t(-1/2) gain on the decay rate in the original physical variables. This result is an adaptation to the case of strips with twisted boundary conditions of previous results by the authors on geometrically twisted Dirichlet tubes. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Krejcirik, D., & Zuazua, E. (2011). The asymptotic behaviour of the heat equation in a twisted Dirichlet-Neumann waveguide. Journal of Differential Equations, 250(5), 2334-2346. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jde.2010.11.005
MLA:
Krejcirik, David, and Enrique Zuazua. "The asymptotic behaviour of the heat equation in a twisted Dirichlet-Neumann waveguide." Journal of Differential Equations 250.5 (2011): 2334-2346.
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