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EPSRC Reference:	EP/F014589/1
Title:	Solving partial differential equations and systems by techniques of harmonic analysis
Principal Investigator:	Dindos, Professor M
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Department:	Sch of Mathematics
Organisation:	University of Edinburgh
Scheme:	First Grant Scheme
Starts:	01 December 2007	Ends:	30 November 2010	Value (£):	286,160
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Mathematical Analysis
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	No relevance to Underpinning Sectors
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Panel History:	Panel Date Panel Name Outcome 06 Jun 2007 Mathematics Prioritisation Panel (Science) Announced
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The proposed research aims to study important classes of elliptic partial differential equations. Partial differential equations are used to mathematically describe behaviour of many real life phenomena and arise practically everywhere. In our research we plan to focus on a special class of such equations - elliptic. Equations of this type can be encountered in physics, material science, geometry, probability and many other disciplines. In many real life applications, the equations that arise have certain singularities. For example the domain of equation can have corners, cusps or the coefficients of equation itself might be discontinuous. Here the discontinuity of coefficients is the mathematical expression of the fact that many materials contain impurities (foreign objects) that somewhat change the properties of studied objects. For these reasons it is very important to consider these situations mathematically. One particular example of an important elliptic system is the stationary Navier-Stokes equation that arises in mathematical physics (fluid flow). To nonspecialist this equation might look simple, however mathematically it is extremely challenging and our understanding of it is very incomplete. One particular question that remains open is the global existence of smooth solutions of this equation for arbitrary large initial data. We plan to look at related problem - global existence of solutions for the stationary Navier-Stokes equation. The word stationary means that we look for solutions that do not change in time. This assumption makes the equation elliptic and therefore approachable by methods of harmonic analysis we plan to use.
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