Initial-boundary value problems for second order systems of partial differential equations

DOI10.1051/M2AN/2011060MaRDI QIDQ2842477zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Omar E. Ortiz, N. Anders Petersson, Heinz-Otto Kreiss

Publication date 14 August 2013

Published in European Series in Applied and Industrial Mathematics (ESAIM): Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.1065

zbMATH Keywords

elastic wave equationglancing wavesLaplace and Fourier transformssurface waves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Initial-boundary value problems for second-order hyperbolic equations (35L20) Initial-boundary value problems for second-order hyperbolic systems (35L53) Maxwell equations (35Q61) Numerical methods for ill-posed problems for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M30)

Abstract: We develop a well-posedness theory for second order systems in bounded domains where boundary phenomena like glancing and surface waves play an important role. Attempts have previously been made to write a second order system consisting of n equations as a larger first order system. Unfortunately, the resulting first order system consists, in general, of more than 2n equations which leads to many complications, such as side conditions which must be satisfied by the solution of the larger first order system. Here we will use the theory of pseudo-differential operators combined with mode analysis. There are many desirable properties of this approach: 1) The reduction to first order systems of pseudo-differential equations poses no difficulty and always gives a system of 2n equations. 2) We can localize the problem, i.e., it is only necessary to study the Cauchy problem and halfplane problems with constant coefficients. 3) The class of problems we can treat is much larger than previous approaches based on "integration by parts". 4) The relation between boundary conditions and boundary phenomena becomes transparent.

Review text

Necessary conditions for well-posedness of an IBVP to the wave equation on a half plane with initial conditions on \(t=0\) and different types of boundary conditions are investigated first. By means of Laplace and Fourier transforms, the above problem with homogeneous initial data is reduced to a first order system of pseudo-differential equations. Interior and boundary estimates for solution as well as estimates in case homogeneous boundary data, are obtained. The method has been extended to a system of two wave equations coupled trough the boundary conditions and then developed for a general system of \(n\) second order wave equations. Really interesting are the numerical experiments at the end of the paper.

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