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Past exam of the numerical solutions of partial differential equations course of the University of Oxford 2023 1 a Solution by
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Write and . Subtraction of the two boundary value problems gives , with . Multiply by and apply integration by parts:Consequently the required energy identity isThe nonlinear term is nonnegative pointwise, sinceThis is the monotonicity energy estimate for a semilinear Dirichlet problem for the monotone function . Apply Young's inequality for products, , inside the last integral and discard the nonnegative nonlinear term. Moving to the left givesIn particular, equal forcing gives , proving uniqueness and a quantitative continuous dependence on forcing estimate for this boundary value problem.
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