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Harmonic Functions in the half-space with a pressurized cavity

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Dipartimento di Matematica Guido Castelnuovo, Università Sapienza Roma

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Sala di Consiglio
Speaker

Andrea Aspri, Dipartimento di Matematica, SAPIENZA Università di Roma

In the first part of the seminar I will present a physical model used in volcanology to describe ground's deformations within calderas. Based on the linear elastic theory, this analytical model replaces caldera with a half-space and the magma chamber by a pressurized cavity of small dimensions compared to its depth. Using these hyphoteses, in the second part of the talk, I will consider the scalar version of this model concerning the Laplace equation with Neumann boundary conditions on the half-space and the cavity. I will exhibit some results on the well-posedness of this problem and then the asymptotic formula for the solution within the framework of layer potentials techniques. This is a joint work with Elena Beretta and Corrado Mascia.