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We investigate the qualitative properties of the weak solutions to the boundary value problems for the hyperbolic fourth-order linear equations with constant coefficients in the plane bounded domain convex with respect to characteristics.…
The Geometric Thin-Film equation is a mathematical model of droplet spreading in the long-wave limit, which includes a regularization of the contact-line singularity. We show that the weak formulation of the problem, given initial Radon…
We construct and derive uniform stochastic estimates on the renormalised model for a class of fourth-order conservative quasilinear singular SPDEs in arbitrary dimension $d\geq 1$ and in the full subcritical regime of noise regularity. The…
Existence of nonnegative weak solutions is shown for a thin film approximation of the Muskat problem with gravity and capillary forces taken into account. The model describes the space-time evolution of the heights of the two fluid layers…
We study the large time behaviour of the mass (size) of particles described by the fragmentation equation with homogeneous breakup kernel. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for the convergence of solutions to the unique…
This paper is devoted to some aspects of well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for a quasilinear degenerate fourth-order parabolic thin film equation u_{t} = -\nabla \cdot(|u|^{n} \nabla\D u) in \ren \times \re_+, \quad u(x,0)=u_0(x) in…
We study the large time behavior of non-negative solutions to the singular diffusion equation with gradient absorption $$ \partial_t u-\Delta_{p}u+|\nabla u|^q=0 \quad \hbox{in} \ (0,\infty)\times\real^N, $$ for $p_c:=2N/(N+1)
It is shown that a weak solution with monotone-decreasing kinetic energy satisfies the strong energy inequality. Using this criterion, we analyze the behavior with respect to time for all weak solutions without any further assumption on…
For the system of second order quasilinear parabolic equations the problem of reducing them to the equations of diffusion type is considered. In non-degenerate case an effective algorithm for solving this problem is suggested.
Models that describe Newtonian liquid films evolving due to the competing effects of surface tension and attractive intermolecular or van der Waals forces are known to rupture in finite time in a self-similar manner. We extend the…
This paper investigates the asymptotic behavior of strong solutions to a family of nonlinear fourth-order evolution equations on the real line, with particular focus on the thin-film equation $\partial_tu = -(uu_{xxx})_x$. The method builds…
We are concerned with the long time behaviour of solutions to the fractional porous medium equation with a variable spatial density. We prove that if the density decays slowly at infinity, then the solution approaches the Barenblatt-type…
We prove existence of weak solutions of a fractional thin film type equation in any space dimension and for any order of the equation. The proof is based on a gradient flow technique in the space of Borel probability measures endowed with…
A thin liquid film coating a planar horizontal substrate may be unstable to perturbations in the film thickness due to unfavourable intermolecular interactions between the liquid and the substrate, which may lead to finite-time rupture. The…
The aim of this paper is to study the singular solutions to fractional elliptic equations with absorption $$ \left\{\arraycolsep=1pt \begin{array}{lll} (-\Delta)^\alpha u+|u|^{p-1}u=0,\quad & \rm{in}\quad\Omega\setminus\{0\},\\[2mm]…
Bifurcations of self-similar solutions for reversing interfaces are studied in the slow diffusion equation with strong absorption. The self-similar solutions bifurcate from the time-independent solutions for standing interfaces. We show…
In this paper, we establish a novel approach to proving existence of non-negative weak solutions for degenerate parabolic equations of fourth order, like the Cahn-Hilliard and certain thin film equations. The considered evolution equations…
We consider a singularly perturbed fourth-order problem with third-order terms on the unit square. With a formal power series approach, we decompose the solution into solutions of reduced (third-order) problems and various layer parts. The…
We consider a class of finite element approximations for fourth-order parabolic equations that can be written as a system of second-order equations by introducing an auxiliary variable. In our approach, we first solve a variational problem…
We study the large time behavior of solutions to the Cauchy problem for the quasilinear absorption-diffusion equation $$ \partial_tu=\Delta u^m-|x|^{\sigma}u^p, \quad (x,t)\in\real^N\times(0,\infty), $$ with exponents $p>m>1$ and $\sigma>0$…