Free boundary problems for Emden-Fowler equations

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Authors Hans Kaper, Man Kam Kwong

Publication date 1990

Published in Differential and Integral Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Emden-Fowler equationsfree boundary problemsshooting methodTokamak equilibria with magnetic islands

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations (34B15) Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) Nonlinear boundary value problems for linear elliptic equations (35J65)

Review text

The authors are concerned with free boundary problems for Emden-Fowler equations \(u+g(x)u'+f(u)=0,\quad x>0.\) More precisely, they prove, under suitable assumptions on f and g, the existence and uniqueness of a finite point \(P>0\) such that there exists a solution of the equation satisfying the conditions \(u'(0)=0\), \(u(x)>0\) if \(0<x<P\), \(u(P)=u'(P)=0\). The admissible functions f and g include types which intervene in some simple model of Tokamak equilibria with magnetic islands. g can be either regular or have a regular singularity for \(x=0\). Hence, they can deal also with radial solutions of \(\Delta u+f(u)\) in \(R^ n\). The proof is based on the use of the shooting method.

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