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This article establishes existence, non-existence and Liouville-type theorems for nonlinear equations of the form $$-div (|x|^{a} D u ) = f(x,u), ~ u > 0,\, \mbox{ in } \Omega,$$ where $N \geq 3$, $\Omega$ is an open domain in…

We study a porous medium equation with fractional potential pressure: $$ \partial_t u= \nabla \cdot (u^{m-1} \nabla p), \quad p=(-\Delta)^{-s}u, $$ for $m>1$, $0<s<1$ and $u(x,t)\ge 0$. To be specific, the problem is posed for $x\in…

We consider the advection-diffusion equation \[ \phi_t + Au \cdot \nabla \phi = \Delta \phi, \qquad \phi(0,x)=\phi_0(x) \] on $\bbR^2$, with $u$ a periodic incompressible flow and $A\gg 1$ its amplitude. We provide a sharp characterization…

We establish the global existence and uniqueness of strong solutions to the initial boundary value problem for incompressible MHD equations in a bounded smooth domain of three spatial dimensions with initial density being allowed to have…

We prove that any positive solution of $ \prt_tu-\Delta u+u^q=0$ ($q>1$) in $\BBR^N\ti(0,\infty)$ with initial trace $(F,0)$, where $F$ is a closed subset of $\BBR^N$ can be estimated from above and below and up to two universal…

In a smoothly bounded convex domain $\Omega\subset R^n$ with $n\ge 1$, a no-flux initial-boundary value problem for \[ \left\{ \begin{array}{l} u_t=\Delta \big(u\phi(v)\big), v_t=\Delta v-uv, \end{array} \right. \] is considered under the…

We consider the semilinear parabolic equation $u_t=u_{xx}+f(u)$ on the real line, where $f$ is a locally Lipschitz function on $\mathbb{R}.$ We prove that if a solution $u$ of this equation is bounded and its initial value $u(x,0)$ has…

We establish the existence of a positive solution to the problem $$-\Delta u+V(x)u=f(u),\qquad u\in D^{1,2}(\mathbb{R}^{N}),$$ for $N\geq3$, when the nonlinearity $f$ is subcritical at infinity and supercritical near the origin, and the…

We present a complete description of the similarity solutions $u_{\alpha}(x,t)=t^{-\alpha/2}f(\Vert x \Vert/\sqrt{t};\alpha)$ for the following nonlinear diffusion equation $$ u_{t}+\gamma\vert u_{t} \vert =\Delta u\qquad(-1<\gamma<1) $$…

We obtain a priori estimates with best constants for the solutions of the fractional fast diffusion equation $u_t+(-\Delta)^{\sigma/2}u^m=0$, posed in the whole space with $0<\sigma<2$, $0<m\le 1$. The estimates are expressed in terms of…

In this paper we deal with the following boundary value problem \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} -\Delta_{p}u + g(u) | \nabla u|^{p} = h(u)f & \text{in $\Omega$,} \newline u\geq 0 & \text{in $\Omega$,} \newline u=0 & \text{on $\partial…

This paper investigates the asymptotic behavior of the solutions of the Fisher-KPP equation in a heterogeneous medium, $$\partial_t u = \partial_{xx} u + f(x,u),$$ associated with a compactly supported initial datum. A typical nonlinearity…

In this paper, we study global positive $C^{2N}$-solutions of the geometrically interesting equation $(-\Delta)^N u + u^{-(4N-1)}= 0$ in $\mathbf R^{2N-1}$. We prove that any $C^{2N}$-solution $u$ of the equation having linear growth at…

We will extend a recent result of B.Choi, P.Daskalopoulos and J.King. For any $n\ge 3$, $0<m<\frac{n-2}{n+2}$ and $\gamma>0$, we will construct subsolutions and supersolutions of the fast diffusion equation $u_t=\frac{n-1}{m}\Delta u^m$ in…

We study the positive subharmonic solutions to the second order nonlinear ordinary differential equation \begin{equation*} u'' + q(t) g(u) = 0, \end{equation*} where $g(u)$ has superlinear growth both at zero and at infinity, and $q(t)$ is…

In this paper, we show that bounded weak solutions of the Cauchy problem for general degenerate parabolic equations of the form \begin{equation} \notag u_t \,+\; \mbox{div}\,f(x,t,u) \;=\; \mbox{div}\,(\;\!|\,u\,|^{\alpha} \, \nabla u…

Well-posedness and a number of qualitative properties for solutions to the Cauchy problem for the following nonlinear diffusion equation with a spatially inhomogeneous source $$ \partial_tu=\Delta u^m+|x|^{\sigma}u^p, $$ posed for…

We study the initial-boundary value problem for a nonlinear wave equation given by u_{tt}-u_{xx}+\int_{0}^{t}k(t-s)u_{xx}(s)ds+ u_{t}^{q-2}u_{t}=f(x,t,u) , 0 < x < 1, 0 < t < T, u_{x}(0,t)=u(0,t), u_{x}(1,t)+\eta u(1,t)=g(t),…

In this paper, we investigate the uniform large deviation principle of the fractional stochastic reaction-diffusion equation on the entire space R^n as the noise intensity approaches zero. The nonlinear drift term is dissipative and has a…

We study the solvability in the whole Euclidean space of coercive quasi-linear and fully nonlinear elliptic equations modeled on $\Delta u\pm g(|\nabla u|)= f(u)$, $u\ge0$, where $f$ and $g$ are increasing continuous functions. We give…