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In this paper we prove local existence of solutions to the nonlinear heat equation $u_t = \Delta u +a |u|^\alpha u, \; t\in(0,T),\; x=(x_1,\,\cdots,\, x_N)\in {\mathbb R}^N,\; a = \pm 1,\; \alpha>0;$ with initial value $u(0)\in…
Lie symmetry analysis is applied to study the nonlinear rotating shallow water equations. The 9-dimensional Lie algebra of point symmetries admitted by the model is found. It is shown that the rotating shallow water equations are related…
We consider the Cauchy problem for the heat diffusion equation in the whole Euclidean space consisting of two media with different constant conductivities, where initially one medium has temperature 0 and the other has temperature 1. Under…
The dynamics of a two-dimensional superconductor under a constant electric field $E$ is studied by using the gauge/gravity correspondence. The pair breaking current induced by $E$ first increases to a peak value and then decreases to a…
We show that any Lie point symmetry of semilinear Kohn-Laplace equations on the Heisenberg group H^1 with power nonlinearity is a divergence symmetry if and only if the corresponding exponent assumes critical value.
Heat conduction in three-dimensional nonlinear lattices is investigated using a particle dynamics simulation. The system is a simple three-dimensional extension of the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam $\beta$ (FPU-$\beta$) nonlinear lattices, in which the…
We consider the energy super critical semilinear heat equation $$\partial_t u=\Delta u+u^{p}, \ \ x\in \mathbb R^3, \ \ p>5.$$ We first revisit the construction of radially symmetric backward self similar solutions and propose a bifurcation…
n this paper we study the asymptotic behavior for a nonlocal heat equation in an inhomogenous medium: $$\rho(x)u_t=J\ast u-u \text{in}\mathbb{R}^N\times (0,\infty)\,,$$ where $\rho$ is a continous positive function, $u$ is nonnegative and…
We study the application of generalized symmetry for reducing nonlinear partial differential equations. We construct the ansatzes for dependent variable $u$ which reduce the scalar partial differential equation with two independent…
In this paper, we study a class of generalized extensible beam equations with a superlinear nonlinearity \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} \Delta ^{2}u-M\left( \Vert \nabla u\Vert _{L^{2}}^{2}\right) \Delta u+\lambda V(x) u=f(…
In this paper, we prove a sample-path comparison principle for the nonlinear stochastic fractional heat equation on $\mathbb{R}$ with measure-valued initial data. We give quantitative estimates about how close to zero the solution can be.…
We review recent developments in nonlinear quantum transport through nanostructures and mesoscopic systems driven by thermal gradients or in combination with voltage biases. Low-dimensional conductors are excellent platforms to analyze both…
In this paper we prove some Hamilton type and Li-Yau type gradient estimates on positive solutions to generalized nonlinear parabolic equations on smooth metric measure space with compact boundary. The geometry of the space in terms of…
In a previous work, we predicted that a thermally biased tunnel junction between two different superconductors can display a thermoelectric effect of nonlinear nature in the temperature gradient, under proper conditions. In this work we…
In this work we introduce a symmetry classification for electronic density waves which break translational symmetry due to commensurate wave vector modulations. The symmetry classification builds on the concept of extended point groups:…
In our former study (J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 43, (2010) 325210 or arXiv:1002.0999v1 [math-ph]) we introduced a modified Fourier-Cattaneo law and derived a non-autonomous telegraph-type heat conduction equation which has desirable…
We consider the nonlinear Helmholtz (NLH) equation describing the beam propagation in a planar waveguide with Kerr-like nonlinearity under non-paraxial approximation. By applying the Lie symmetry analysis, we determine the Lie point…
We perform non-equilibrium simulations to study heat conduction in two-dimensional strongly coupled dusty plasmas. Temperature gradients are established by heating one part of the otherwise equilibrium system to a higher temperature. Heat…
Starting from microscopic mechanics, we derive thermodynamic relations for heat conducting nonequilibrium steady states. The extended Clausius relation enables one to experimentally determine nonequilibrium entropy to the second order in…
For heat flux $q$ and temperature $T$ we introduce a modified Fourier--Cattaneo law $q_t+ l \frac{q}{t}= - kT_x .$ The consequence of it is a non-autonomous telegraph-type equation. % $\epsilon S_{tt} + \frac{a}{t} S_t = S_{xx}$ . This…