... second law: We know two equivalent formulation of the secondlaw But we haven’t had any equation to express the law With the help of the concept of entropy we can write an equation for the secondlaw ... Chapter XVI The SecondLawof Thermodynamics §1 Reversible Carnot cycles §2 The secondlawof thermodynamics §3 Entropy and quantitative formulation of the secondlaw §4 Heat engines and ... thermal efficiency This impossibility is the basis of the following statement of The secondlawof thermodynamics 2.1 “Engine” statement of the second law: “It is impossible for any system to undergo...
... mobile of the second type generally receives the most support Chapter 1: Entropy and the SecondLaw 13 and the least dissention It is the gold standard ofsecondlaw formulations If the secondlaw ... violations of specific formulations of this law in specific situations, as will be shown in Chapter 26 Challenges to the SecondLaw 1.5 Entropy and the Second Law: Discussion Entropy and the secondlaw ... the secondlaw By posing the secondlaw in terms of a particular physical process (adiabatic expansion), the door is opened to use any natural (irreversible) process as the basis of a second law...
... Boundary Value Problems 13 Z Du, W Ge, and X Lin, “Existence of solutions for a class of third-order nonlinear boundary value problems, ” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 294, no ... again, we get xn − x∗ → n → ∞ This completes the proof Boundary Value Problems Example 3.4 In this paper, the results apply to a very wide range of functions, we are following only one example to ... value problems, ” Nonlinear Analysis Theory, Methods & Applications, vol 68, no 10, pp 3151–3158, 2008 F Wang and Y Cui, “On the existence of solutions for singular boundary value problem of third-order...
... p1 p2 = R2 = ||u|| Then, Equation holds Therefore, by Equations and and the second part of Lemma 2.3, T has a fixed point in P ∩ ( ¯ \ ), which is a positive solution ofEquation □ Example Let ... Boundary Value Problems 2011, 2011:5 http://www.boundaryvalueproblems.com/content/2011/1/5 Page of 11 Then, Equation 12 holds Therefore, by Equations 10 and 12 and the first part of Lemma 2.3, ... doi:10.1016/S0362-546X(01)00478-3 Kang, P, Wei, Z: Three positive solutions of singular nonlocal boundary value problems for systems of nonlinear second- order ordinary differential equations Nonlinear Anal 70, 444–451 (2009)...
... boundary-value problemsof nonlinear fractional differential equations,” Electronic Journal of Differential Equations, no 36, pp 1–12, 2006 16 M Benchohra, S Hamani, and S K Ntouyas, “Boundary value problems ... fractional differential equation, ” Electronic Journal of Qualitative Theory of Differential Equations, no 3, pp 1–11, 2008 20 C F Li, X N Luo, and Y Zhou, “Existence of positive solutions of the boundary ... Difference Equations 13 Conclusions In this paper, by using the fixed point theorem of cone, we have investigated the existence of positive solutions for a class of nonlinear fractional differential equations...
... of the fractional differential equations can be found in the papers 11–23 A study of a coupled differential system of fractional order is also very significant because this kind of system can often ... notions of the fractional calculus and the theory of the operators for integration and differentiation of fractional order Section is devoted to the study of the existence and uniqueness of positive ... 2008BB7415, 2010BB9401 of China, Ministry of Education Project Grant no 708047 of China, Science and Technology Project of Chongqing municipal education committee Grant no KJ100513 of China, the NSFC...
... solution of the nonlinear Volterra integro-differential equation, as well as giving an upper bond of the error committed Proposition 3.2 Let m ∈ N and {z0 , z1 , , zm } be any subset of C 0, ... polynomials,” Journal of Physics A, vol 42, no 45, Article ID 454006, 13 pages, 2009 H Brunner, “The numerical treatment of Volterra integro-differential equations with unbounded delay,” Journal of Computational ... the numerical solution of Volterra integro-differential equations,” Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, vol 15, no 3, pp 301–309, 1986 H Brunner, “A survey of recent advances in the...
... the global structure of positive solutions of 1.1 , 1.2 with f0 ∞ However, to the best of our knowledge, there is no paper to discuss the global structure of nodal solutions of 1.1 , 1.2 with f0 ... 2.6 max0≤|s|≤r {|f s |} Proof The proof is similar to that of Lemma 3.5 in ; we omit it Lemma 2.6 Let (A1)-(A2) hold, and { μl , yl } ⊂ Φν is a sequence of solutions of 1.1 , 1.2 k ∞ Then Assume ... autonomous equation yl μl f yl 0, t ∈ 0, 3.30 10 Boundary Value Problems We see that yl consists of a sequence of positive and negative bumps, together with a truncated bump at the right end of the...
... K t a bt a, b > , the equation involved in problem Pλ is the stationary analogue of the well-known equation proposed by Kirchhoff in This is one of the motivations why problems like Pλ were studied ... parameters,” Journal of Global Optimization, vol 46, no 4, pp 543–549, 2010 10 Boundary Value Problems Y Yang and J Zhang, “Positive and negative solutions of a class of nonlocal problems, ” Nonlinear ... Partial Differential Equations ofSecond Order, vol 22, Springer, Berlin, Germany, 1977 10 E DiBenedetto, “C1 α local regularity of weak solutions of degenerate elliptic equations,” Nonlinear Analysis:...
... Proof We choose ρ, ξ with < ρ < ς < ξ If H3 holds, similar to the proof of 3.2 , we can prove that T x/x, ≥ x ∈ K, x pc1 ρ 3.27 Boundary Value Problems 15 If H5 holds, similar to the proof of ... W Ge, “Existence of solutions of boundary value problems with integral boundary conditions for second- order impulsive integro-differential equations in Banach spaces,” Journal of Computational ... for second order impulsive differential equations,” Applied Mathematics and Computation, vol 114, no 1, pp 51–59, 2000 B Liu and J Yu, “Existence of solution of m-point boundary value problems of...
... to Lemma 2.3 Proof of main results Proof of Theorems 1.1 and 1.2 We only prove Theorem 1.1 since the proof of Theorem 1.2 is similar ν It is clear that any solution of (2.4) of the form (1, u) ... and L´pez-G´mez [7], the proofs of these o o theorems contain gaps, the original statement of Theorem 1.40 of [4] is not correct, the original statement of Theorem 1.27 of [4] is stronger than what ... solution of (2.2) is a pair (r, u) ∈ X, which satisfies the equation (2.2) The closure of the set nontrivial solutions of (2.2) is denoted by C, let Σ(T ) denote the set of eigenvalues of linear...
... differential equations and almost periodic flows,” Journal of Differential Equations, vol 5, no 1, pp 167–181, 1969 18 R Yuan, “Pseudo-almost periodic solutions of second- order neutral delay differential equations ... which guarantees the uniqueness of solution of 1.1 and cannot be omitted To study the spectrum of almost periodic solution of 1.1 , we firstly study the solution of 1.1 Let n s f σ dσ ds, fn n ... The proofs of Lemmas 2.2, 2.3, and 2.4 are elementary, and we omit the details Lemma 2.5 Suppose that |p| / and q / − p2 APS R , then 2.7 has a unique solution {x2n } ∈ Proof As the proof of Theorem...
... immediate that the set of solutions of the family of equations (2.7) is, a priori, bounded in PC [0,1] by a constant independent of λ ∈ [0,1] This completes the proof of the theorem Theorem 2.2 ... existence of a solution for x = L−1 Fx To this, it suffices to verify that the set of all possible solutions of the family of equations: x (t) = λ f t,x(t),x (t) , + Δx tk = λbk x tk , Δx tk = λck x tk ... PC [0,1] is a solution of (1.1) if and only if x is a fixed point of the equation x = L−1 Fx (2.6) We apply the Leray-Schauder continuation theorem to obtain the existence of a solution for x =...
... (H0) and 3.6 hold If μ, u ∈ E is a nontrivial solution of 3.3 , then u ∈ Tk for some k, ν Proof The proof of Lemma 3.6 is similar to the proof of Lemma 3.1 omit it 4, Proposition 4.1 ; we ν Remark ... structure of the nodal solutions of 1.8 , 1.9 becomes more complicated: the component of the solutions of 1.8 , 1.9 from the trivial solution at λk /f0 , and the component of the solutions of 1.8 ... results about the existence of nodal solution of multipoint boundary value problems, we can see 4–7 Of course an interesting question is, as for m-point boundary value problems, when f possesses...
... Advances in Difference Equations technique to derive the maximum principle for a Lagrange problem of systems governed by a class of the second- order nonlinear impulsive differential equation in infinite ... Existence of optimal controls In this section, we not only present the existence of PCl -mild solution of the controlled system (1.1) but also give the existence of optimal controls of systems ... Section 3, the mild solution of second- order nonlinear impulsive differential equations is introduced and the existence result is also presented In addition, the existence of optimal controls for a...
... boundary value problemsof first-order differential equations,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 325, no 1, pp 226–236, 2007 [23] J J Nieto, “Periodic boundary value problems for ... superlinear growth of the nonlinearity of f (t, p) in p Inspired by [21, 24, 25], in this paper, we investigate the following second- order impulsive nonlinear differential equations with periodic ... ≤ T, (2.10) ≤ t ≤ s ≤ T Proof If u ∈ PC1 ([0,T]; Rn ) C ([0,T] \ {t1 }, Rn ) is a solution of (2.6), setting v(t) = u (t) − r2 u(t), (2.11) then by the first equationof (2.6), we have v (t) −...
... immediate that the set of solutions of the family of equations (2.7) is, a priori, bounded in PC [0,1] by a constant independent of λ ∈ [0,1] This completes the proof of the theorem Theorem 2.2 ... existence of a solution for x = L−1 Fx To this, it suffices to verify that the set of all possible solutions of the family of equations: x (t) = λ f t,x(t),x (t) , + Δx tk = λbk x tk , Δx tk = λck x tk ... PC [0,1] is a solution of (1.1) if and only if x is a fixed point of the equation x = L−1 Fx (2.6) We apply the Leray-Schauder continuation theorem to obtain the existence of a solution for x =...
... improvement of Perron’s theorem We will show that the asymptotics of solutions that converge to the equilibrium depends on the character of the roots of the characteristic equationof the linearized equation ... definitions of positive and negative semicycles of a solution of (1.5) ¯ relative to an equilibrium point x A positive semicycle of a solution {xn } of (1.5) consists of a “string” of terms {xl ... behavior of solutions of (1.2) Figure 2.1 visualizes the regions for the different asymptotic behavior of solutions of (1.2) Rate of convergence of xn+1 = (pxn + xn−1 )/(qxn + xn−1 ) Equation...
... these phenomena The analysis starts with a second- order differential equation, free of constants, that offers a general way of describing them This equation is then integrated and applied to ... units of κ0 = kbind·(Ab)sat, where kbind = 1/Kd, are k0 = [mol L- 1of (dA b )bound /mol L- 1of (dA) added]0 ⋅ one mol L- 1of Binding Sites × (mol L−1 Binding sites present in system = (fraction of ... models of the binding mechanism identify Kd as the dissociation constant in mol L-1 [2,5,6,10-12] Equation (11) is often referred to as the Langmuir adsorption isotherm, or the Hill binding equation...