On a model of oscillations of a thin flat plate with a variety of mounts on opposite sides (Q2833570)

Stationary vibrations of a thin flat plate can be modelled by considering one side of the plate to be embedded, the opposite side to be free and the sides to be freely leaned. Hence, this paper studies the corresponding boundary value problem for the homogeneous biharmonic equation in a rectangular domain with different boundary conditions on opposite boundaries. This is a local problem for an elliptic equation of fourth order. This problem seems to be ill-posed and its ill-posedness is analogous to the ill-posedness of the Cauchy problem for the Laplace equation. Therefore, an instability example of a classic solution of the former problem can be constructed similarly to the Hadamard example given for the latter problem. Furthermore, the author shows that the operator associated with the problem considered with homogeneous boundary conditions is symmetric and positive. Moreover, the solution to the problem can be represented formally in the form of an expansion into an orthogonal series. The main result of the paper is the condition that should be satisfied for the existence of a strong solution of the problem.