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We establish boundary regularity results in H\"older spaces for the degenerate parabolic problem obtained from the Heston stochastic volatility model in Mathematical Finance set up in the spatial domain (upper half-plane) $\mathbb{H} =…

We present two dimensional numerical simulations of a natural convection problem in an unbounded domain. A thermal stratification is applied in the vertical direction and the flow circulation is induced by a heat island located on the…

We investigate the Cauchy problem for a heat equation driven by the mixed local-nonlocal operator $\mathcal{L}:=-\Delta+(-\Delta)^s$, $s\in(0,1)$, with exponential nonlinearity \[ \partial_tu(x,t)+\mathcal{L}u(x,t)=f(u(x,t)), \qquad…

A survey of estimates on the number $N_-(\BM_{\a G})$ of negative eigenvalues (bound states) of the Sturm-Liouville operator $\BM_{\a G}u=-u"-\a G$ on the half-line, as depending on the properties of the function $G$ and the value of the…

Any surface can be foliated into equipotential hypersurfaces of the level sets. A current result is that the contours are the progressing wave fronts of a certain hyperbolic partial differential equation, a wave equation. It is connected…

We establish theorems on the existence and compactness of solutions to the $\sigma_2$-Nirenberg problem on the standard sphere $\mathbb S^2$. A first significant ingredient, a Liouville type theorem for the associated fully nonlinear…

In the Segment Intersection Graph Representation Problem, we want to represent the vertices of a graph as straight line segments in the plane such that two segments cross if and only if there is an edge between the corresponding vertices.…

We consider the reaction-diffusion problem $-\Delta_g u = f(u)$ in $\mathcal{B}_R$ with zero Dirichlet boundary condition, posed in a geodesic ball $\mathcal{B}_R$ with radius $R$ of a Riemannian model $(M,g)$. This class of Riemannian…

Consider a scalar conservation law with discontinuous flux \begin{equation*}\tag{1} \quad u_{t}+f(x,u)_{x}=0, \qquad f(x,u)= \begin{cases} f_l(u)\ &\text{if}\ x<0,\\ f_r(u)\ & \text{if} \ x>0, \end{cases} \end{equation*} where $u=u(x,t)$ is…

We study strong instability (by blow-up) of the standing waves for the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with $\delta$-interaction on a star graph $\Gamma$. The key ingredient is a novel variational technique applied to the standing wave…

We consider in this note one-side Liouville properties for viscosity solutions of various fully nonlinear uniformly elliptic inequalities, whose prototype is $F(x,D^2u)\geq H_i(x,u,Du)$ in $\mathbb{R}^N$, where $H_i$ has superlinear growth…

We study the Cauchy problem in the space $H^1(\Sigma)$ for a nonlinear damped Schr\"odinger equation of the form \begin{equation}\tag{NLS-$\zeta$}\label{nls} i u_t + \Delta u + i \lambda u \, \zeta(|u|+1) = 0, \quad u(0,x) = u_0,…

The paper deals with the problem of surface effects at a fluid boundary produced by a step force field. A classical simple fluid with a locally placed field simulating a solid is considered. The specific surface Omega-potential gamma, the…

Consider a single hyperbolic PDE $u_{xy}=f(x,y,u,u_x,u_y)$, with locally prescribed data: $u$ along a non-characteristic curve $M$ and $u_x$ along a non-characteristic curve $N$. We assume that $M$ and $N$ are graphs of one-to-one…

We study the parabolic free boundary problem of obstacle type $$ \lap u-\frac{\partial u}{\partial t}= f\chi_{{u\ne 0}}. $$ Under the condition that $f=Hv$ for some function $v$ with bounded second order spatial derivatives and bounded…

We prove existence of solutions to the following problem \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} -\Delta_1 u +g(u)|Du|=h(u)f & \text{in $\Omega$,} \\ u=0 & \text{on $\partial\Omega$,} \end{cases} \end{equation*} where $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^N$,…

In this paper, we prove the existence of $k$ families of smooth unbounded domains $\Omega_s\subset\mathbb{R}^{N+1}$ with $N\geq1$, where \begin{equation} \Omega_s=\left\{(x,t)\in \mathbb{R}^N\times \mathbb{R}:\vert x\vert<1+s\cos…

In this paper, we prove the existence of hypersurfaces in the Euclidean space with prescribed boundary and whose k-th Weingarten curvature equals a given function that depends on the normal of the hypersurface. The proof is based on the…

For the stationary nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation $-\Delta u+ V(x)u- f(u) = \lambda u$ with periodic potential $V$ we study the existence and stability properties of multibump solutions with prescribed $L^2$-norm. To this end we introduce…

We prove that any $C^2$ complete, orientable, connected, stable area-stationary surface in the sub-Riemannian Heisenberg group $\mathbb{H}^1$ is either a Euclidean plane or congruent to the hyperbolic paraboloid $t=xy$.