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A reduced-dimensional asymptotic modelling approach is presented for the analysis of two-phase flow in a thin cylinder with aperture of order $\mathcal{O}(\varepsilon),$ where $\varepsilon$ is a small positive parameter. We consider a…
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We establish sharp weighted smoothing estimates for limit solutions to the Cauchy-Dirichlet problem for the fast diffusion equation on smooth bounded domains. We demonstrate that the critical exponent governing these estimates coincides…
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