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Dissertation
On Periodic Solutions of Nonlinear Hyperbolic Equations of the Fourth Order
(2006)
  • Timothy A. Smith
Abstract
In the last century most of the sciences, engineering and technology have triggered a multitude of complex nonlinear phenomena. For the majority of these problems the existing analysis does not give any information about their solutions. In mathematically modeling most of the times these phenomena lead to either ordinary or partial differential equations, which are often nonlinear. While in the last few years such problems have become the central theme of research, more has to be done.

Particularly, in the case of ordinary differential equations one of the major aspects which has been studied extensively is the uniqueness property of solutions. In fact, hundreds of uniqueness criteria are known in the literature; however, to accommodate new complex phenomenon the research continues in this direction. Following this trend in this these we offer easily verifiable uniqueness criteria for hyperbolic partial differential equations of the type [special characters omitted] and its various particular cases as well as possible generalizations.
Keywords
  • hyperbolic equations,
  • nonlinear hyperbolic equations,
  • partial differential equations,
  • periodic solutions
Publication Date
May, 2006
Degree
Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics
Field of study
Applied Mathematics
Advisors
Ravi P. Agarwal, Michael D. Shaw, Karishka Perera, Terry D. Oswalt, V. Lakshmikantham
Citation Information
Timothy A. Smith. "On Periodic Solutions of Nonlinear Hyperbolic Equations of the Fourth Order" (2006)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/timothy-smith/14/