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We study the steady states and dynamics of a thin film-type equation with non-conserved mass in one dimension. The evolution equation is a nonlinear fourth-order degenerate parabolic PDE motivated by a model of volatile viscous fluid films…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-29 Hangjie Ji , Thomas P. Witelski

Linear and weakly nonlinear stability analyses of an externally shear-imposed, gravity-driven falling film over a uniformly heated wavy substrate are studied. The longwave asymptotic expansion technique is utilized to formulate a single…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-05-22 Md. Mouzakkir Hossain , Sukhendu Ghosh , Harekrushna Behera , G. P. Raja Sekhar

We consider an abstract nonlinear second order evolution equation, inspired by some models for damped oscillations of a beam subject to external loads or magnetic fields, and shaken by a transversal force. When there is no external force,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-24 Marina Ghisi , Massimo Gobbino , Alain Haraux

In this paper, we prove the existence of asymptotic speed of solutions to fully nonlinear, possibly degenerate parabolic partial differential equations in a general setting. We then give some explicit examples of equations in this setting…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-21 Yoshikazu Giga , Hiroyoshi Mitake , Takeshi Ohtsuka , Hung V. Tran

In this paper we study the asymptotic behaviour of a nonlocal nonlinear parabolic equation governed by a parameter. After giving the existence of unique branch of solutions composed by stable solutions in stationary case, we gives for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-04-30 Armel Andami Ovono

Quasilinear (and semilinear) parabolic problems of the form $v'=A(v)v+f(v)$ with strict inclusion $\mathrm{dom}(f)\subsetneq \mathrm{dom}(A)$ of the domains of the function $v\mapsto f(v)$ and the quasilinear part $v\mapsto A(v)$ are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-13 Bogdan-Vasile Matioc , Lina Sophie Schmitz , Christoph Walker

Nonlinear and nonlinear evolution equations of the form $u_t=\L u \pm|\nabla u|^q$, where $\L$ is a pseudodifferential operator representing the infinitesimal generator of a L\'evy stochastic process, have been derived as models for growing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Grzegorz Karch , Wojbor A. Woyczynski

In this paper, we give a criterion on instability of an equilibrium of nonlinear Caputo fractional differential systems. More precisely, we prove that if the spectrum of the linearization has at least one eigenvalue in the sector…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2018-08-24 N. D. Cong , T. S. Doan , S. Siegmund , H. T. Tuan

We prove the existence and uniqueness of strong solutions to the equation $u u_x - u_{yy} = f$ in the vicinity of the linear shear flow, subject to perturbations of the source term and lateral boundary conditions. Since the solutions we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Anne-Laure Dalibard , Frédéric Marbach , Jean Rax

We consider the blow-up behavior of solutions to the semilinear wave equation $$ \partial_t^2 u - \Delta u = |u|^{p-1}u \ln^a(u^2+2), \ (x,t)\in \mathbb{R}^n \times [0,T),$$ in the conformal case $ p = p_c = 1 + \frac{4}{n-1}$. Previous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Mohamed Ali Hamza

The study of shear layer instability in compressible flows is key to understanding phenomena from aerodynamics to astrophysical jets. Blumen's seminal paper [``Shear layer instability of an inviscid compressible fluid," J. Fluid Mech. {\bf…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-29 Symphony Chakraborty , Hsien Shang

We study the instability of standing wave solutions for nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations with a one-dimensional harmonic potential in dimension $N\ge 2$. We prove that if the nonlinearity is $L^2$-critical or supercritical in dimension…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-08 Masahito Ohta

Using spatial domain techniques developed by the authors and Myunghyun Oh in the context of parabolic conservation laws, we establish under a natural set of spectral stability conditions nonlinear asymptotic stability with decay at Gaussian…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Mathew Johnson , Kevin Zumbrun

Instabilities driven by strong gradients appear in a wide variety of physical systems, including plasmas, neutral fluids, and self-gravitating systems. This work develops an analytic formulation to describe the transport structure and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-10-13 Emma G. Devin , Vinícius N. Duarte

In this paper we study the asymptotic nonlinear dynamics of scalar semilinear parabolic problems reaction-diffusion type when the diffusion coefficient becomes large in a subregion which is interior to the domain. We obtain, under suitable…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-28 Leonardo Pires , Alexandre Nolasco de Carvalho

We consider the semilinear damped wave equation $\partial_{tt}^2 u(x,t)+\gamma(x)\partial_t u(x,t)=\Delta u(x,t)-\alpha u(x,t)-f(x,u(x,t))$. In this article, we obtain the first results concerning the stabilization of this semilinear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-21 Romain Joly , Camille Laurent

Nonlinear non-stationary equation describing evolution of weakly curved premixed flames with arbitrary gas expansion, subject to the Landau-Darrieus instability, is derived. The new equation respects all the conservation laws to be…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kirill A. Kazakov , Michael A. Liberman

In this paper, we are concerned with stable solutions , possibly unbounded and sign-changing, of some semi-linear elliptic problem with mixed nonlinear boundary conditions. We establish the nonexistence of stable solutions, the main methods…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-07-13 Foued Mtiri , Abdelbaki Selmi , Cherif Zaidi

This paper is concerned with supersolutions to parabolic equations of the form \begin{equation} \partial_t U (x,t)-D(x)\Delta U(x,t)=0, \quad (x,t)\in \mathbb{R}^N \times (0,\infty), \end{equation} where $D\in C(\mathbb{R}^N)$ is positive.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-14 Motohiro Sobajima , Yuta Wakasugi

We study the large-time behaviour of the solutions of the evolution equation involving nonlinear diffusion and gradient absorption, $$ \partial_t u - \Delta_p u + |\nabla u|^q=0 . $$ We consider the problem posed for $x\in \real^N$ and t>0…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-02-11 Razvan Gabriel Iagar , Philippe Laurençot , Juan Luis Vázquez