MA8105 Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Sobolev Spaces

General information



Lecturer:

  • Office hours: Tuesdays 13:15-14:00.

Lectures:

  • Tuesday ….. 08:15-10:00 … room 656 (Sima-stuen, SB2)
  • Thursday … 14:15-16:00 … room 734 (SB2)
  • Plan/log, see 'Lectures' in the left menu.

Exercises:

  • Weekly exercises.
  • Hints, partial solutions, or references in Appendix C in the lecture note.

Lecture note

  • Holden: Tools from the toolbox. Functional Analysis for Partial Differential Equations.
  • You will get the note at the first lecture.

Other relevant books

Not part of the curriculum.

  • Brezis: Functional Analysis, Sobolev Spaces, and Partial Differential Equations, Springer 2011. (Chapters 1, 3, 4, 8, 9 are relevant)

  • Ciarlet: Linear and Nonlinear Functional Analaysis with Applications, SIAM 2013.

  • Evans: Partial Differential Equations, AMS 2010. (Chapter 5 on Sobolev spaces)

  • Gilbarg and Trudinger: Elliptic Partial Differential Equations of Second Order, Springer 1998. (Chapter 7 on Sobolev spaces)

  • Holden, Risebro: Front Tracking for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws, Springer 2015. (Appendix A on compactness, chapter 3 on finite difference methods)

Final Curriculum

  • From Holden Tools from the toolbox: sections 1, 2.1, 3, 4.1-4.5, 4.7, 5.1-5.5, 5.7, 7 (Theorem 7.1 with proof), Appendix A (except Theorem A2 and A3), Appendix B.
  • Handwritten notes by Espen on Finite difference approximation of Porous Medium Equations.
  • All homework problems.

Office hours

Date Time Room
02.05. 10:00-11:00 1148, SB2
09.05. 10:00-11:00 1148, SB2
12.05. 14:00-15:30 1148, SB2
16.05. 14:00-15:30 1148, SB2
(734 if many come)
19.05. 14:00-15:00 1148, SB2
20.05. – 28.05. unavailable

Exam

  • Oral
  • 2 exam dates: 16.05. and 29.05.
  • The exam has two parts:

    1. (20 min): One of the topics given below is randomly selected and the candidate then gives a presentation of it on the blackboard (no slides).
      Focus on the main parts of the topic, or if the topic is big, a selected part of it. Proofs are encouraged.

      Notes are allowed - but watch the time - 20 min.

    2. (25 min): Examination in all of the curriculum. No notes.
  • Topics (from Tools from the toolbox): (A) Sections 2.1; (B) Chapter 3; (C) Sections 4.1-4.3; (D) Sections 4.4-4.5, 4.7; (E) Sections 5.1-5.3; (F) Sections 5.4-5.6, 5.7.
  • Schedule:
Date Time Room
16.05. 09:15 - 10:00 734
10:00 - 10:45 734
29.05. 09:00 - 09:45 734
09:45 - 10:30 734
10:45 - 11:30 734
11:30 - 12:15 734
13:15 - 14:00 822
26.06. 08:30 - 09:15 734
2018-02-12, Hallvard Norheim Bø