Long time behavior and stability of special solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations.
Issue Date
2011-04-21Author
Demirkaya, Aslihan
Publisher
University of Kansas
Format
118 pages
Type
Dissertation
Degree Level
Ph.D.
Discipline
Mathematics
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In this dissertation, in the first part, I study the long-time behavior of the solutions of the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation and the Burgers-Sivashinsky equation. First, I work on a two-dimensional modified KS equation and prove the existence of a global attractor on a bounded domain. Next, I study the long-time behavior of the solutions of the one-dimensional BS equation for general initial data as opposed to the usually considered odd initial data. Third, I study the long-time behavior of radially symmetric solutions of the KS equation in a shell domain in three-dimensions. In the second part, we deal with the conditional stability of radial steady state solutions for the one-dimensional Klein-Gordon equation. I consider the one-dimensional case and construct the infinite-dimensional invariant manifolds explicitly. The result is a precise center-stable manifold theorem, which includes the co-dimension of the manifolds and the decay rates.
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