The Airy equation with nonlocal conditions

Abstract

We study a third order dispersive linear evolution equation on the finite interval subject to an initial condition and inhomogeneous boundary conditions but, in place of one of the three boundary conditions that would typically be imposed, we use a nonlocal condition, which specifies a weighted integral of the solution over the spatial interval. Via adaptations of the Fokas transform method (or unified transform method), we obtain a solution representation for this problem. We also study the time periodic analogue of this problem, and thereby obtain long time asymptotics for the original problem with time periodic boundary and nonlocal data.