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We consider the system of partial differential equations governing two-dimensional flows of a robust class of viscoelastic rate-type fluids with stress diffusion, involving a general objective derivative. The studied system generalizes the…
Let $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^{N}$, $N\geq2$ be a bounded smooth domain and $\alpha>1$. We are interested in the singular elliptic equation% \[ \triangle h=\frac{1}{\alpha}h^{-\alpha}-p\quad\text{in}\Omega \] with Neumann boundary…
We study the deformation and dewetting of liquid films under impinging gas jets using experimental, analytical and numerical techniques. We first derive a reduced-order model (a thin-film equation) based on the long-wave assumption and on…
In \cite{arxiv,arxiv1,Kor,cras1,cras2}, we have developed a new tool called \textit{quasi solutions} which approximate in some sense the compressible Navier-Stokes equation. In particular it allows us to obtain global strong solution for…
This paper deals with the distributed order time-fractional diffusion equations with non-homogeneous Dirichlet (Nuemann) boundary condition. We first prove the wellposedness of the weak solution to the initial boundary value problem for the…
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The study of viscous thin film flow has led to the development of highly nonlinear partial differential equations that model how the evolution of the film height is affected by different forces. We investigate a model of interaction between…
The Landau distribution as well as its first and second momenta are well suited for describing the energy loss of charged particles traversing a thin layer of matter. At present, just rational approximations and asymptotic expressions for…
The structure of the flow induced by the van der Waals destabilization of a non-wetting liquid film placed on a solid substrate is unraveled by means of theory and numerical simulations of the Stokes equations. Our analysis reveals that…
We consider a second order thin curved film whose behavior is governed by an energy made up of a first order nonlinear part depending on the gradient of the deformation augmented by a quadratic second order part depending on the tensor of…
We study existence and long-time behaviour of strong solutions for the thin film equation using a priori estimates in a weighted Sobolev space. This equation can be classified as a doubly degenerate fourth-order parabolic and it models…
We develop a theory of existence and uniqueness for the following porous medium equation with fractional diffusion, $$ \{ll} \dfrac{\partial u}{\partial t} + (-\Delta)^{\sigma/2} (|u|^{m-1}u)=0, & \qquad x\in\mathbb{R}^N,\; t>0, [8pt]…
We study a priori estimates for a class of non-negative local weak solution to the weighted fast diffusion equation $u_t = |x|^{\gamma} \nabla\cdot (|x|^{-\beta} \nabla u^m)$, with $0 < m <1$ posed on cylinders of $(0,T)\times{\mathbb…
In recent works, we proposed a theory of turbulence creation via the second coefficient of the virial expansion (i.e. the van der Waals effect). This theory relies, in part, on the empirically observed "equilibrated" behavior of pressure in…
We study linear time fractional diffusion equations in divergence form of time order less than one. It is merely assumed that the coefficients are measurable and bounded, and that they satisfy a uniform parabolicity condition. As the main…
The large-time behavior of solutions to the thin film equation with linear mobility in the complete wetting regime on $\mathbb{R}^N$ is examined: We investigate the higher order asymptotics of solutions converging towards self-similar…
A Maxwell-Stefan system for fluid mixtures with driving forces depending on Cahn-Hilliard-type chemical potentials is analyzed. The corresponding parabolic cross-diffusion equations contain fourth-order derivatives and are considered in a…
We study the propagation properties of nonnegative and bounded solutions of the class of reaction-diffusion equations with nonlinear fractional diffusion: $u_{t} + (-\Delta)^s (u^m)=f(u)$. For all $0<s<1$ and $m> m_c=(N-2s)_+/N $, we…
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…
We present a long-wavelength approximation to the Navier-Stokes Cahn-Hilliard equations to describe phase separation in thin films. The equations we derive underscore the coupled behaviour of free-surface variations and phase separation. We…