PDE Seminar Abstracts

Domain perturbation for parabolic equations

Parinya Sa Ngiamsunthorn
University of Sydney
18 Apr 2011 2-3pm, Mills Lecture Room 202

Abstract

We study the effect of domain perturbation on the behaviour of parabolic equations. In particular, we show how solutions of parabolic equations behave as a sequence of domains Ωn in N converges to an open set Ω in a certain sense. We are interested in singular domain perturbations so that a change of variables is not possible on these domains. In the first part of this talk, we concentrate on initial-boundary value problems for non-autononous parabolic equations. We prove the convergence of solutions by variational methods using the notion of Mosco convergence. In the second part, we look at domain perturbation for bounded solutions of parabolic equations on the whole real line.