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We investigate qualitative properties of local solutions $u(t,x)\ge 0$ to the fast diffusion equation, $\partial_t u =\Delta (u^m)/m$ with $m<1$, corresponding to general nonnegative initial data. Our main results are quantitative…

In this paper we develop an existence theory for the nonlinear initial-boundary value problem with singular diffusion $\partial_t u = \text{div}(k(x)\nabla G(u))$, $u|_{t=0}=u_0$ with Neumann boundary conditions $k(x)\nabla G(u)\cdot \nu =…

The phenomenon of finite time extinction of bounded and non-negative solutions to the diffusion equation with strong absorption $$\partial_t u-\Delta u^m+|x|^{\sigma}u^q=0, \qquad (t,x)\in(0,\infty)\times\mathbb{R}^N,$$ with $m\geq1$,…

This is the first of a two-parts work on the qualitative properties and large time behavior for the following quasilinear equation involving a spatially inhomogeneous absorption $$ \partial_tu=\Delta u^m-|x|^{\sigma}u^p, $$ posed for…

For open sets $U$ in some space $X$, we are interested in positive solutions to semi-linear equations $ Lu=\varphi(\cdot,u)\mu$ on $U$. Here $L$ may be an elliptic or parabolic operator of second order (generator of a diffusion process) or…

We consider the reaction-diffusion problem $-\Delta_g u = f(u)$ in $\mathcal{B}_R$ with zero Dirichlet boundary condition, posed in a geodesic ball $\mathcal{B}_R$ with radius $R$ of a Riemannian model $(M,g)$. This class of Riemannian…

We study the existence of solutions in Hilbert space $H$ of the semilinear equation \[ L u+N(u)=h, \] where $L$ is linear self-adjoint, $N$ is a nonlinear operator and $h\in H$. We concentrate on the case when $0$ is a right boundary point…

We consider the following parabolic system whose nonlinearity has no gradient structure: $$\left\{\begin{array}{ll} \partial_t u = \Delta u + |v|^{p-1}v, \quad & \partial_t v = \mu \Delta v + |u|^{q - 1}u,\\ u(\cdot, 0) = u_0, \quad &…

We establish uniform a-priori estimates for solutions of the semilinear Dirichlet problem \begin{equation} \begin{cases} (-\Delta)^m u=h(x,u)\quad&\mbox{in }\Omega,\\ u=\partial_nu=\cdots=\partial_n^{m-1}u=0\quad&\mbox{on }\partial\Omega,…

This paper is devoted to the study of the behavior of the unique solution $u_\delta \in H^{1}_{0}(\Omega)$, as $\delta \to 0$, to the equation \begin{equation*} \dive(\epss_\delta A \nabla u_{\delta}) + k^2 \epss_0 \Sigma u_{\delta} =…

We study fractional parabolic equations with indefinite nonlinearities $$ \frac{\partial u} {\partial t}(x,t) +(-\Delta)^s u(x,t)= x_1 u^p(x, t),\,\, (x, t) \in \mathbb{R}^n \times \mathbb{R}, $$ where $0<s<1$ and $1<p<\infty$. We first…

We will investigate the asymptotic behavior of positive solutions of the elliptic equation \Delta u+|x|^{l_{1}}u^{p}+|x|^{l_{2}}u^{q}=0 {in} R^{n}. We establish that for $n\geq 3$ and $q>p>1$, any positive radial solution of (0.1) has the…

In this paper existence and nonexistence results of positive radial solutions of a Dirichlet $m$-Laplacian problem with different weights and a diffusion term inside the divergence of the form $\big(a(|x|)+g(u)\big)^{-\gamma}$, with…

We study the Dirichlet boundary value problem for equations with absorption of the form $-\Delta u+g\circ u=\mu$ in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset R^N$ where $g$ is a continuous odd monotone increasing function. Under some additional…

The purpose of this paper is to study nonlinear singular parabolic equations with $p(x)$- Laplacian. Precisely, we consider the following problem and discuss the existence of a non-negative weak solution. \begin{align*} \frac{\partial…

In this paper, we consider the solution $\bold{u}=\left(u^1,\cdots,u^k\right)$ of the generalized parabolic system \begin{equation*} \left(u^i\right)_t=\nabla\cdot\left(mU^{m-1}\mathcal{A}\left(\nabla…

We consider positive solutions for the fractional heat equation with critical exponent \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} u_t = -(-\Delta)^{s}u + u^{\frac{n+2s}{n-2s}}\text{ in } \Omega\times (0, \infty), u = 0\text{ on }…

Large time behavior of solutions to abstract differential equations is studied. The corresponding evolution problem is: $$\dot{u}=A(t)u+F(t,u)+b(t), \quad t\ge 0; \quad u(0)=u_0. \qquad (*)$$ Here $\dot{u}:=\frac {du}{dt}$, $u=u(t)\in H$,…

In this paper, we focus our attention on the positive solutions to second-order nonlinear ordinary differential equations of the form $u''+q(t)g(u)=0$, where $q$ is a sign-changing weight and $g$ is a superlinear function. We exploit the…

We study the positive subharmonic solutions to the second order nonlinear ordinary differential equation \begin{equation*} u'' + q(t) g(u) = 0, \end{equation*} where $g(u)$ has superlinear growth both at zero and at infinity, and $q(t)$ is…