THE BEHAVIOR OF SOLUTIONS OF FOURTH-ORDER NONLINEAR ELLIPTIC EQUATIONS IN  
UNBOUNDED DOMAINS  

Faramarz Tahamtani

Supervisor:Okay Celebi
December 1993, 61 Pages
      The teory of boundary value problems for monlinear elliptic equations in domains with noncompact boundaries is one 

of the current research field concerning partial differential equations. The main questions discussed in this class of 

problems are the special behaviors of the solutions in unbounded domains. 

      In this study, the behavior of the solutions of the fourth-order nonlinear elliptic eqquations in unbounded domains are 

examined. To this end, integral methods are used to establish polynomial growth (or decay) or exponential growth (or 

decay) of solutions for the problems being considered. More precisely, the energy integrals related to such kind of 

solutions depending on the structure of the nonlinearity of the corresponding equation and the geometry of the boundary 

are succesfull investigated. 

Key words: Phragmen-Lindelof type theorem, Saint-Venant type estimate, Nonlinear fourth order elliptic equation, 

Integro-differential inequality. 

Science Code: 403.06.01