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In this paper, we consider the initial-boundary value problems with several fundamental boundary conditions (the Dirichlet/Neumann/Robin boundary condition) for the multi-component system of semi-linear classical damped wave equations…
In this paper we consider smooth solutions of the Navier--Stokes equations with a linear dependence on the spatial variable. We reduce the evolution of these solutions to a matrix ODE, and show that there are such solutions that blowup in…
In this paper, we study the focusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with exponential nonlinearities \[ i \partial_t u + \Delta u = - \left(e^{4\pi |u|^2} - 1 - 4\pi \mu |u|^2 \right) u, \quad u(0) = u_0 \in H^1, \quad (t,x) \in \mathbb{R}…
We address a general system of nonlinear Dirac equations in (1+1) dimensions and prove nonexistence of classical self-similar blowup solutions in the space of bounded functions. While this argument does not exclude the possibility of…
We study a 1D model for the 3D incompressible Euler equations in axisymmetric geometries, which can be viewed as a local approximation to the Euler equations near the solid boundary of a cylindrical domain. We prove the local well-posedness…
We consider the semilinear wave equation in higher dimensions with power nonlinearity in the super-conformal range, and its perturbations with lower order terms, including the Klein-Gordon equation. We improve the upper bounds on blow-up…
This manuscript is a lightly reformatted version of my 2017 PhD thesis. I am posting it on arXiv at the request of my advisor, Sergiu Klainerman, who noted that it has been useful to some students. The content largely reflects the thesis in…
We consider the defocusing nonlinear wave equation $u_{tt}-\Delta u + |u|^p u=0$ with spherically-symmetric initial data in the regime $\frac4{d-2}<p<\frac4{d-3}$ (which is energy-supercritical) and dimensions $3\leq d\leq 6$; we also…
We consider in this paper blow-up solutions of the semilinear wave equation in one space dimension, with an exponential source term. Assuming that initial data are in $H^{1}_{loc}\times L^2_{loc}$ or some times in $ W^{1,\infty}\times…
For the problem $$ \left\{ \begin{aligned} & \partial_t^k u - \sum_{|\alpha| = m} \partial^\alpha a_\alpha (x, t, u) \ge f (|u|) \quad \mbox{in } {\mathbb R}_+^{n+1} = {\mathbb R}^n \times (0, \infty), & u (x, 0) = u_0 (x), \: \partial_t u…
We demonstrate finite-time blow-up in a simple, realistic shell model of the 3D Navier-Stokes equations, equipped with "smooth" (i.e., rapidly decaying in frequency) initial data and forcing. Previously studied models either exhibit a…
We study the family of semilinear wave equations $\square_{\mathbf{g}_p}\phi=(\partial_t\phi)^2$, on fixed expanding FLRW spacetimes, having $\mathbb{R}^3$ spatial slices and undergoing a power law expansion, with scale factor $a(t)=t^p$,…
We investigate the following repulsion-consumption system with flux limitation \begin{align}\tag{$\star$} \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} u_t=\Delta u+\nabla \cdot(uf(|\nabla v|^2) \nabla v), & x \in \Omega, t>0, \tau v_t=\Delta v-u v, & x \in…
In this paper, the well-posedness of Cauchy's problem of fractional Schr\"odinger equations with a power type nonlinearity on $n$-dimensional manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature is studied. Under suitable volume conditions, the local…
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…
We consider the fourth order problem $\Delta^{2}u=\lambda f(u)$ on a general bounded domain $\Omega$ in $R^{n}$ with the Navier boundary condition $u=\Delta u=0$ on $\partial \Omega$. Here, $\lambda$ is a positive parameter and $…
This paper considers a class of non-local equations that are weakly dispersive perturbations of the inviscid Burgers equation, which includes the Fornberg-Whitham equation as a special case. We precise the known results on finite time…
We consider wave maps from $(1+d)$-dimensional Minkowski space into the $d$-sphere. For every $d \geq 3$, there exists an explicit self-similar solution that exhibits finite time blowup. This solution is corotational and its mode stability…
In this paper, we discuss the global existence of weak solutions to the semilinear damped wave equation \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} \partial_t^2u-\Delta u + \partial_tu = f(u) & \text{in}\ \Omega\times (0,T), \\ u=0 & \text{on}\…
In the paper [Li Jun, Xu Gang, Yin Huicheng, On the blowup mechanism of smooth solutions to 1D quasilinear strictly hyperbolic systems with large variational initial data, Nonlinearity 38 (2025), No.2, 025016], for the 1-D $n\times n$…