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We prove optimal boundary regularity for bounded positive weak solutions of fast diffusion equations in smooth bounded domains. This solves a problem raised by Berryman and Holland in 1980 for these equations in the subcritical and critical…
We study the regularity of a porous medium equation with nonlocal diffusion effects given by an inverse fractional Laplacian operator. The precise model is $u_t=\nabla\cdot(u\nabla (-\Delta)^{-1/2}u).$ For definiteness, the problem is posed…
In this paper we consider a one-dimensional diffusion equation on the interval $[0,1]$ satisfying non-Feller boundary conditions. As a consequence, the initial value Cauchy problem fails to preserve nonnegativity or boundedness.…
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…
This work studies the chemotaxis-haptotaxis system $$\left\{ \begin{array}{ll} u_t= \Delta u - \chi \nabla \cdot (u\nabla v) - \xi \nabla \cdot (u\nabla w) + \mu u(1-u-w), &\qquad x\in \Omega, \, t>0, \\[1mm] v_t=\Delta v-v+u, &\qquad x\in…
In this paper we present a fast algorithm for the numerical solution of systems of reaction-diffusion equations, $\partial_t u + a \cdot \nabla u = \Delta u + F (x, t, u)$, $x \in \Omega \subset \mathbf{R}^3$, $t > 0$. Here, $u$ is a…
The diffusion equation is a universal and standard textbook model for partial differential equations (PDEs). In this work, we revisit its solutions, seeking, in particular, self-similar profiles. This problem connects to the classical…
We investigate fine global properties of nonnegative, integrable solutions to the Cauchy problem for the Fast Diffusion Equation with weights (WFDE) $u_t=|x|^\gamma\mathrm{div}\left(|x|^{-\beta}\nabla u^m\right)$ posed on…
We consider an evolution equation with the regularized fractional derivative of an order $\alpha \in (0,1)$ with respect to the time variable, and a uniformly elliptic operator with variable coefficients acting in the spatial variables.…
In this paper we consider the problem $$(P)\qquad \{{array}{rclll} u_t-\D u^m&=&|\n u|^q +\,f(x,t),&\quad u\ge 0 \hbox{in} \Omega_T\equiv \Omega\times (0,T), u(x,t)&=&0 &\quad \hbox{on} \partial\Omega\times (0,T) u(x,0)&=&u_0(x),&\quad x\in…
We study nonnegative solutions to the Cauchy problem for the Fractional Fast Diffusion Equation on a suitable class of connected, noncompact Riemannian manifolds. This parabolic equation is both singular and nonlocal: the diffusion is…
We study the homogeneous Cauchy-Dirichlet Problem (CDP) for a nonlinear and nonlocal diffusion equation of singular type of the form $\partial_t u =-\mathcal{L} u^m$ posed on a bounded Euclidean domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N$ with…
We study the spatial critical points of the solutions $u=u(x,t)$ of the fractional heat equation. For the Cauchy problem, we show that the origin $0$ satisfies $\nabla_x u(0,t) = 0$ for $t>0$ if and only if the initial data satisfy a…
We consider a reaction-diffusion system for two densities lying in adjacent domains of $\mathbb{R}^N$. We treat two configurations: either a cylinder and its complement, or two half-spaces. Diffusion and reaction heterogeneities for the two…
In this paper we consider a reaction-diffusion equation of Fisher-KPP type inside an infinite cylindrical domain in $\mathbb{R}^{N+1}$, coupled with a reaction-diffusion equation on the boundary of the domain, where potentially fast…
We study a fractional analogue of a plasma problem arising from physics. Specifically, for a fixed bounded domain $\Omega$ we study solutions to the eigenfunction equation \[ (- \Delta)^s u = \lambda(u- \gamma)_+ \] with $u \equiv 0$ on…
Let $n\ge 3$ and $0<m<\frac{n-2}{n}$. We will extend the results of J.L. Vazquez and M. Winkler and prove the uniqueness of finite points blow-up solutions of the fast diffusion equation $u_t=\Delta u^m$ in both bounded domains and…
We study a porous medium equation with nonlocal diffusion effects given by an inverse fractional Laplacian operator. More precisely, $$ u_t=\nabla\cdot(u\nabla (-\Delta)^{-s}u), \quad \ 0<s<1. $$ The problem is posed in $\{x\in\ren, t\in…
We consider a linear diffusion equation on $\Omega:=\mathbb{R}^2\setminus\bar{\Omega_\mathcal{O}}$, where $\Omega_\mathcal{O}$ is a bounded domain. The time-dependent flux on the boundary $\Gamma:=\partial\Omega_\mathcal{O}$ is prescribed.…
This article deals with an initial-boundary value problem for the coupled chemotaxis-haptotaxis system with nonlinear diffusion $$\left\{\begin{array}{ll} u_t=\nabla\cdot( D(u)\nabla u)-\chi\nabla\cdot(u\nabla v)- \xi\nabla\cdot(u\nabla…