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We examine the transient scattered and transmitted fields generated when an incident electromagnetic wave impinges on a dielectric scatterer or a coated conductor embedded in an infinite space. By applying a boundary-field equation method, we reformulate the problem in the Laplace domain using the electric field equation inside the scatterer and a system of boundary integral equations for the scattered electric field in free space. To analyze this nonlocal boundary problem, we replace it by an equivalent boundary value problem. Existence, uniqueness and stability of the weak solution to the equivalent BVP are established in appropriate function spaces in terms of the Laplace transformed variable. The stability bounds are translated into time-domain estimates which determine the regularity of the solution in terms of the regularity of the problem data. These estimates can be easily converted into error estimates for a numerical discretization on the convolution quadrature for time evolution. more...

Motivated by the study of layer potentials on manifolds with straight conical or cylindrical ends, we introduce and study two classes (or calculi) of pseudodifferential operators defined on manifolds with cylindrical ends: the class of pseudodifferential operators that are ``translation invariant at infinity'' and the class of ``essentially translation invariant operators.'' These are ``minimal'' classes of pseudodifferential operators containing the layer potential operators of interest. Both classes are close to the $b$-calculus considered by Melrose and Schulze and to the $c$-calculus considered by Melrose and Mazzeo-Melrose. Our calculi, however, are different and, while some of their properties follow from those of the $b$- or $c$-calculi, many of their properties do not. In particular, we prove that the ``essentially translation invariant calculus'' is spectrally invariant, a property not enjoyed by the ``translation invariant at infinity'' calculus or the $b$-calculus. For our calculi, we provide easy, intuitive proofs of the usual properties: stability for products and adjoints, mapping and boundedness properties for operators acting between Sobolev spaces, regularity properties, existence of a quantization map, topological properties of our algebras, and the Fredholm property. Since our applications will be to the Stokes operator, we systematically work in the setting of \ADN-elliptic operators. We also show that our calculi behave well with respect to restrictions to (suitable) submanifolds, which is crucial for our applications to layer potential operators., Comment: 51 pages, we have included two subsections on layer potentials and have modified accordingly the title of the paper. We have fixed a few small mistakes and have improved the presentation. Submitted to "Proceedings of OT28" more...

An incoming elastodynamic wave impinges on an elastic obstacle is embedded in an infinite elastic medium. The objective of the paper is to examine the subsequent elastic fields scattered by and transmitted into the elastic obstacle. By applying a boundary-field equation method, we are able to formulate a nonlocal boundary problem (NBP) in the Laplace transformed domain, using the field equations inside the obstacle and boundary integral equations in the exterior elastic medium. Existence, uniqueness and stability of the solutions to the NBP are established in Sobolev spaces for two different integral representations. The corresponding results in the time domain are obtained. The stability bounds are translated into time domain estimates that can serve as the starting point for a numerical discretization based on Convolution Quadrature. more...

This paper is build around the stationary anisotropic Stokes and Navier-Stokes systems with an $L^\infty$-tensor coefficient satisfying an ellipticity condition in terms of symmetric matrices in ${\mathbb R}^{n\times n}$ with zero matrix traces. We analyze, in $L^2$-based Sobolev spaces, the non-homogeneous boundary value problems of Dirichlet-transmission type for the anisotropic Stokes and Navier-Stokes systems in a compressible framework in a bounded Lipschitz domain with a Lipschitz interface in ${\mathbb R}^n$, $n\ge 2$ ($n=2,3$ for the nonlinear problems). The transversal interface intersects the boundary of the Lipschitz domain. First, we use a mixed variational approach to prove well-posedness results for the linear anisotropic Stokes system. Then we show the existence of a weak solution for the nonlinear anisotropic Navier-Stokes system by implementing the Leray-Schauder fixed point theorem and using various results and estimates from the linear case, as well as the Leray-Hopf and some other norm inequalities. Explicit conditions for uniqueness of solutions to the nonlinear problems are also provided., Comment: 49 pages more...

The first aim of this paper is to develop a layer potential theory in $L_2$-based weighted Sobolev spaces on Lipschitz bounded and exterior domains of ${\mathbb R}^n$, $n\geq 3$, for the anisotropic Stokes system with $L_{\infty }$ viscosity coefficient tensor satisfying an ellipticity condition for symmetric matrices. To do this, we explore equivalent mixed variational formulations and prove the well-posedness of some transmission problems for the anisotropic Stokes system in Lipschitz domains of ${\mathbb R}^n$, with the given data in $L_2$-based weighted Sobolev spaces. These results are used to define the Newtonian and layer potentials and to obtain their properties. Then we analyze well-posedness of the exterior Dirichlet, Neumann and mixed problems for the Stokes system with $L_{\infty }$ symmetrically elliptic coefficient tensor. Solutions of some of these problems are also represented in terms of the anisotropic Stokes Newtonian and layer potentials. Finally, we prove the existence of a weak solution for a transmission problem in complementary Lipschitz domains in ${\mathbb R}^3$ for the anisotropic Navier-Stokes system with general data in $L_2$-based weighted Sobolev spaces. The analysis relies on an existence result for a Dirichlet problem for the anisotropic Navier-Stokes system in a family of bounded domains, and on the Leray-Schauder fixed point theorem., Comment: 53 pages, some notations simplified and typos corrected more...

We obtain well-posedness results in $L_p$-based weighted Sobolev spaces for a transmission problem for anisotropic Stokes and Navier-Stokes systems with $L_{\infty}$ strongly elliptic coefficient tensor, in complementary Lipschitz domains of ${\mathbb R}^n$, $n\ge 3$. The strong ellipticity allows to explore the associated pseudostress setting. First, we use a variational approach that reduces two linear transmission problems for the anisotropic Stokes system to equivalent mixed variational formulations with data in $L_p$-based weighted Sobolev and Besov spaces. We show that such a mixed variational formulation is well-posed in the space ${\mathcal H}^1_{p}({\mathbb R}^n)^n\times L_p({\mathbb R}^n)$, {$n\geq 3$}, for any $p$ in an open interval containing $2$. These results are used to define the Newtonian and layer potential operators for the considered anisotropic Stokes system. Various mapping properties of these operators are also obtained. The potentials are employed to show the well-posedness of some linear transmission problems, which then is combined with a fixed point theorem in order to show the well-posedness of the nonlinear transmission problem for the anisotropic Stokes and Navier-Stokes systems in $L_p$-based weighted Sobolev spaces, whenever the given data are small enough., Comment: 30 pages more...

A mixed variational formulation of some problems in $L^2$-based Sobolev spaces is used to define the Newtonian and layer potentials for the Stokes system with $L^{\infty}$ coefficients on Lipschitz domains in ${\mathbb R}^3$. Then the solution of the exterior Dirichlet problem for the Stokes system with $L^{\infty}$ coefficients is presented in terms of these potentials and the inverse of the corresponding single layer operator., Comment: 20 pages more...

We study minimal energy problems for strongly singular Riesz kernels on a manifold. Based on the spatial energy of harmonic double layer potentials, we are motivated to formulate the natural regularization of such problems by switching to Hadamard's partie finie integral operator which defines a strongly elliptic pseudodifferential operator on the manifold. The measures with finite energy are shown to be elements from the corresponding Sobolev space, and the associated minimal energy problem admits a unique solution. We relate our continuous approach also to the discrete one, which has been worked out earlier by D.P. Hardin and E.B. Saff., Comment: 31 pages, 2 figures more...

The purpose of this paper is to study boundary value problems of transmission type for the Navier-Stokes and Darcy-Forchheimer-Brinkman systems in two complementary Lipschitz domains on a compact Riemannian manifold of dimension 2 or 3. We exploit a layer potential method combined with a fixed point theorem in order to show existence and uniqueness results when the given data are suitably small in $L^2$-based Sobolev spaces., Comment: J. Math. Fluid Mech., 2016 more...