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We study the quenching behavior for a semilinear heat equation arising in models of micro-electro mechanical systems (MEMS). The problem involves a source term with a spatially dependent potential, given by the dielectric permittivity…

We are concerned with the study of positive solutions to the Gierer-Meinhardt system $$ \begin{cases} \displaystyle -\Delta u+\lambda u=\frac{u^p}{v^q}+\rho(x) &\quad\mbox{ in }\mathbb{R}^N\, , N\geq 3,\\[0.1in] \displaystyle -\Delta v+\mu…

Despite considerable developments in the literature of the past decades, a standing open problem in the analysis of continuum mechanics appears to consist of determining how far the prototypical model for small-strain thermoviscoelastic…

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Let $\Omega $ be a bounded domain in $\mathbb{R} ^N $, and let $u\in C^1 (\overline{\Omega }) $ be a weak solution of the following overdetermined BVP: $-\nabla (g(|\nabla u|)|\nabla u|^{-1} \nabla u )=f(|x|,u)$, $ u>0 $ in $\Omega $ and…

A semilinear heat equation $u_{t}=\Delta u+f(u)$ with nonnegative initial data in a subset of $L^{1}(\Omega)$ is considered under the assumption that $f$ is nonnegative and nondecreasing and $\Omega\subseteq \R^{n}$. A simple technique for…

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We prove existence and nonexistence results concerning elliptic problems whose basic model is \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} \displaystyle-\Delta u+\mu(x)\frac{|\nabla u|^2}{(u+\delta)^\gamma}= \lambda u^p, &x\in \Omega, \\ u> 0, &x\in…

In this paper, we consider the global solutions to a generalized 2D Boussinesq equation \begin{align*} \left \{\begin{aligned} & \partial_{t} \omega + u\cdot \nabla \omega + \nu \Lambda^{\alpha} \omega = \theta_{x_{1}} , \quad \\ & u =…

In this paper, we study the positive solutions to the following singular and non local elliptic problem posed in a bounded and smooth domain $\Omega\subset \R^N$, $N> 2s$: % \begin{eqnarray*} (P_\lambda)\left\{\begin{array}{lll}…

We study the regularity of the extremal solution of the semilinear biharmonic equation $\bi u=\f{\lambda}{(1-u)^2}$, which models a simple Micro-Electromechanical System (MEMS) device on a ball $B\subset\IR^N$, under Dirichlet boundary…

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We study the system \begin{align*}\label{prob:star} \tag{$\star$} \begin{cases} u_t = D_1 \Delta u - \chi_1 \nabla \cdot (u \nabla v) + u(\lambda_1 - \mu_1 u + a_1 v) \\ v_t = D_2 \Delta v + \chi_2 \nabla \cdot (v \nabla u) + v(\lambda_2 -…

We consider the regularity of the extremal solution of the nonlinear eigenvalue problem (S)_\lambda \qquad {rcr} -\Delta u + c(x) \cdot \nabla u &=& \frac{\lambda}{(1-u)^2} \qquad {in $ \Omega$}, u &=& 0 \qquad {on $ \pOm$}, where $ \Omega…

We investigate the parabolic-elliptic Keller-Segel model \begin{align*}\left\{\begin{array}{r@{\,}l@{\quad}l@{\quad}l@{\,}c} u_{t}&=\Delta u-\,\chi\nabla\!\cdot(\frac{u}{v}\nabla v),\ &x\in\Omega,& t>0,\\ 0&=\Delta v-\,v+u,\ &x\in\Omega,&…

We study the existence/nonexistence of positive solution to the problem of the type: \begin{equation}\tag{$P_{\lambda}$} \begin{cases} \Delta^2u-\mu a(x)u=f(u)+\lambda b(x)\quad\textrm{in $\Omega$,}\\ u>0 \quad\textrm{in $\Omega$,}\\…

We investigate radial solutions for the problem \[ \begin{cases} \displaystyle -\Delta U=\frac{\lambda+\delta|\nabla U|^2}{1-U},\; U>0 & \textrm{in}\ B,\\ U=0 & \textrm{on}\ \partial B, \end{cases} \] which is related to the study of…

Let $G=(V,E)$ be a connected finite graph. We study the existence of solutions for the following generalized Chern-Simons equation on $G$ \begin{equation*} \Delta u=\lambda \mathrm{e}^{u}\left(\mathrm{e}^{u}-1\right)^{5}+4 \pi…

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