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We investigate the blow-up dynamics of smooth solutions to the one-dimensional wave equation with a quadratic spatial derivative nonlinearity, motivated by its applications in Effective Field Theory (EFT) in cosmology. Despite its…
We consider the energy supercritical defocusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation $i\partial_tu+\Delta u-u|u|^{p-1}=0$ in dimension $d\ge 5$. In a suitable range of energy supercritical parameters $(d,p)$, we prove the existence of $\mathcal…
In this paper we study blow-up phenomena in general coupled nonlinear Schrodinger equations with different dispersion coefficients. We find sufficient conditions for blow-up and for the existence of global solutions. We discuss several…
In this paper, we consider a weakly coupled system of a wave and damped Klein-Gordon equation with nonlinearities of derivative type. We prove a blow-up result for the Cauchy problem associated with this system for nonnegative and compactly…
We consider a non-local Liouville equation corresponding to the prescription of the geodesic curvature on the circle. We build a family of solutions which blow up at a critical point of the harmonic extension of the prescribed curvature…
In the present work we revisit the problem of the generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation parametrically, as a function of the relevant nonlinearity exponent, to examine the emergence of blow-up solutions, as traveling waveforms lose their…
Motivated by the mean field equations with probability measure derived by Sawada-Suzuki and by Neri in the context of the statistical mechanics description of two-dimensional turbulence, we study the semilinear elliptic equation with…
Nonlinear dispersive partial differential equations such as the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations can have solutions that blow-up. We numerically study the long time behavior and potential blowup of solutions to the focusing…
In this paper, we study the blowup phenomena for the regular solutions of the isentropic relativistic Euler-Poisson equations with a vacuum state in spherical symmetry. Using a general family of testing functions, we obtain new blowup…
We consider the defocusing nonlinear wave equation $u_{tt}-\Delta u + |u|^p u=0$ in the energy-supercritical regime p>4. For even values of the power p, we show that blowup (or failure to scatter) must be accompanied by blowup of the…
We derive a new formulation of the relativistic Euler equations that exhibits remarkable properties. This new formulation consists of a coupled system of geometric wave, transport, and elliptic equations, sourced by nonlinearities that are…
Acoustic perturbations to stellar envelopes can lead to the formation of weak shock waves via nonlinear wave-steepening. Close to the stellar surface, the weak shock wave increases in strength and can potentially lead to the expulsion of…
This is the second paper in a series studying the nonlinear stability of rarefaction waves in multi-dimensional gas dynamics. We construct initial data near singularities in the rarefaction wave region and, combined with the a priori energy…
This paper is concerned with the Riemann problem of one-dimensional Euler equations with a singular source. The exact solution of this Riemann problem contains a stationary discontinuity induced by the singular source, which is different…
In this paper we discuss the existence of stationary incompressible fluids with splash singularities. Specifically, we show that there are stationary solutions to the Euler equations with two fluids whose interfaces are arbitrarily close to…
In this paper, for compressible Euler equations in multiple space dimensions, we prove the break-down of classical solutions with a large class of initial data by tracking the propagation of radially symmetric expanding wave including…
In this paper, we investigate the initial boundary value problem of the following nonlinear extensible beam equation with nonlinear damping term $$u_{t t}+\Delta^2 u-M\left(\|\nabla u\|^2\right) \Delta u-\Delta u_t+\left|u_t\right|^{r-1}…
We consider the semilinear wave equation in the radial case with conformal subcritical power nonlinearity. If we consider a blow-up point different from the origin, then we exhibit a new Lyapunov functional which is a perturbation of the…
The study of nonlinear waves that collapse in finite time is a theme of universal interest, e.g. within optical, atomic, plasma physics, and nonlinear dynamics. Here we revisit the quintessential example of the nonlinear Schrodinger…
We consider the wave equation with focusing power nonlinearity. The associated ODE in time gives rise to a self-similar solution known as the ODE blowup. We prove the nonlinear asymptotic stability of this blowup mechanism outside of radial…