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This article focuses on a quasilinear wave equation of $p$-Laplacian type: $$ u_{tt} - \Delta_p u - \Delta u_t=0$$ in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^3$ with a sufficiently smooth boundary $\Gamma=\partial\Omega$ subject to a…
We study the boundary value problem $-{\rm div}(\log(1+ |\nabla u|^q)|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u)=f(u)$ in $\Omega$, $u=0$ on $\partial\Omega$, where $\Omega$ is a bounded domain in $\RR^N$ with smooth boundary. We distinguish the cases where…
We study a family of Laguerre--Sobolev orthogonal polynomials associated with a Sobolev inner product arising from second--order boundary value problems on the semi--infinite interval $(0,+\infty)$. These polynomials generate an orthogonal…
We consider singular perturbation elliptic problems depending on a parameter ? such that, for ? = 0 the boundary conditions are not adapted to the equation (they do not satisfy the Shapiro - Lopatinskii condition). The limit only holds in…
In three spatial dimensions, we study the Cauchy problem for the model wave equation $- \partial_t^2 \Psi + (1 + \Psi)^P \Delta \Psi = 0$ for $P \in \lbrace 1,2 \rbrace$. We exhibit a stable form of finite-time Tricomi-type degeneracy…
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The combined effectiveness of model reduction and the quasilinear approximation for the reproduction of the low-order statistics of oceanic surface boundary-layer turbulence is investigated. Idealized horizontally homogeneous problems of…
We consider a quasilinear parabolic stochastic partial differential equation driven by a multiplicative noise and study regularity properties of its weak solution satisfying classical a priori estimates. In particular, we determine…
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