Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Volume 8 (2002), Issue 2, Pages 135-142
An upper and lower solution approach for a generalized
Thomas–Fermi theory of neutral atoms
1Department of Mathematical Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne 32901-6975, Florida, USA
2Department of Mathematics, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Received 8 February 2002
Copyright © 2002 Ravi P. Agarwal and Donal O'Regan. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This paper presents an upper and lower solution theory for boundary value problems modelled from the Thomas–Fermi equation subject to a boundary condition corresponding to the neutral atom with Bohr radius.