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The moving-contact line between a fluid, liquid and a solid is a ubiquitous phenomenon, and determining the maximum speed at which a liquid can wet/dewet a solid is a practically important problem. Using continuum models, previous studies…

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We study numerically a reduced model proposed by Benilov and Vynnycky (J. Fluid Mech. {\bf 718} (2013), 481), who examined the behavior of a contact line with a $180^{\circ}$ contact angle between liquid and a moving plate, in the context…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-11 Dmitry E. Pelinovsky , Chengzhu Xu

Relativistic and non-relativistic fluid equations can exhibit finite time singular solutions including density singularities appearing in collapse or compression systems and gradient singularities in shock waves. However, only the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. J. Gagen

In light of the question of finite-time blow-up vs. global well-posedness of solutions to problems involving nonlinear partial differential equations, we provide several cautionary examples which indicate that modifications to the boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-09 Adam Larios , Edriss S. Titi

In the regime of lubrication approximation, we look at spreading phenomena under the action of singular potentials of the form $P(h)\approx h^{1-m}$ as $h\to 0^+$ with $m>1$, modeling repulsion between the liquid-gas interface and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-09 Riccardo Durastanti , Lorenzo Giacomelli

We consider the six dimensional energy-critical semilinear heat equation with self-similarly decaying initial data. Our main result shows the existence of sign-changing solutions that exhibit infinite-time blow-up and nonnegative solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Kotaro Hisa , Jin Takahashi , Erbol Zhanpeisov

We establish the first complete classification of finite-time blow-up scenarios for strong solutions to the three-dimensional incompressible Euler equations with surface tension in a bounded domain possessing a closed, moving free boundary.…

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We survey rigorous, formal, and numerical results on the formation of point-like singularities (or blow-up) for a wide range of evolution equations. We use a similarity transformation of the original equation with respect to the blow-up…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-12-09 Jens Eggers , Marco A. Fontelos

In this survey we report on some recent results related to various singular phenomena arising in the study of some classes of nonlinear elliptic equations. We establish qualitative results on the existence, nonexistence or the uniqueness of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vicentiu Radulescu

We investigate blow-up phenomena for positive solutions of nonlinear reaction-diffusion equations including a nonlinear convection term $\partial_t u = \Delta u - g(u) \cdot \nabla u + f(u)$ in a bounded domain of $\mathbb{R}^N$ under the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-09-26 Gaëlle Pincet Mailly , Jean-François Rault

The 2d Boussinesq equations model large scale atmospheric and oceanic flows. Whether its solutions develop a singularity in finite-time remains a classical open problem in mathematical fluid dynamics. In this work, blowup from smooth…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-04-08 Alejandro Sarria , Jiahong Wu

The search of finite-time singularity solutions of Euler equations is considered for the case of an incompressible and inviscid fluid. Under the assumption that a finite-time blow-up solution may be spatially anisotropic as time goes by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-01-07 Sergio Rica

The study of blow-up solution of time-fractional heat equations is of significant and wide-ranging interest for its multitude of applications. These types of equations are used to model several real problems in science and engineering. This…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Hind Ghazi Hameed , Burhan Selcuk , Maan A. Rasheed

We consider an abstract wave equation with a propagation speed that depends only on time. We investigate well-posedness results with finite derivative loss in the case where the propagation speed is smooth for positive times, but…

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We study the asymptotic behavior of blow-up solutions of the heat equation with nonlinear boundary conditions. In particular, we classify the asymptotic behavior of blow-up solutions and investigate the spacial singularity of their blow-up…

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We consider the blow-up of solutions for a semilinear reaction diffusion equation with exponential reaction term. It is know that certain solutions that can be continued beyond the blow-up time possess a nonconstant selfsimilar blow-up…

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In connection with the recent proposal for possible singularity formation at the boundary for solutions of 3d axi-symmetric incompressible Euler's equations (Luo and Hou, 2013), we study models for the dynamics at the boundary and show that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-15 Kyudong Choi , Thomas Y. Hou , Alexander Kiselev , Guo Luo , Vladimir Sverak , Yao Yao

In this work, exact solutions are derived for an integer- and fractional-order time-delayed diffusion equation with arbitrary initial conditions. The solutions are obtained using Fourier transform methods in conjunction with the known…

We study existence of solutions in the variational sense for a class of stochastic phase-field models describing moving boundary problems. The models consist of stochastic reaction-diffusion equations with singular diffusion forced by a…

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