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The phase-field method has become in recent years the method of choice for simulating microstructural pattern formation during solidification. One of its main advantages is that time-dependent three-dimensional simulations become feasible.…

We prove expansion of positivity and reduction of the oscillation results to the local weak solutions to a doubly nonlinear anisotropic class of parabolic differential equations with bounded and measurable coefficients, whose prototype is…

This work addresses an efficient Global-Local approach supplemented with predictor-corrector adaptivity applied to anisotropic phase-field brittle fracture. The phase-field formulation is used to resolve the sharp crack surface topology on…

We report the phase diagram of two-dimensional hard ellipses as obtained from replica exchange Monte Carlo simulations. The replica exchange is implemented by expanding the isobaric ensemble in pressure. The phase diagram shows four…

We propose a method to determine the smoothness of sufficiently flat solutions of one phase Hele-Shaw problems. The novelty is the observation that under a flatness assumption the free boundary --represented by the hodograph transform of…

It is known that the De Giorgi's conjecture does not hold in two dimensions for semilinear elliptic equations with a nonzero drift, in general, $$ \Delta u+ q\cdot \nabla u+f(u)=0 \ \ \text{in } \ \ \mathbb R^2, $$ when $q=(0,-c)$ for…

We study the asymptotic convergence of solutions as $t\rightarrow\infty$ of $\partial_t u=-f(u)+\int f(u)$, a nonlocal differential equation that is formally a gradient flow in a constant-mass subspace of $L^2$ arising from simplified…

We study a nonlocal version of the two-phase Stefan problem, which models a phase transition problem between two distinct phases evolving to distinct heat equations. Mathematically speaking, this consists in deriving a theory for…

We report on recent progress in understanding the tubular phase of self-avoiding anisotropic membranes. After an introduction to the problem, we sketch the renormalization group arguments and symmetry considerations that lead us to the most…

In this paper, we consider the following nonlinear parabolic equation \[ \partial_{t}u\,=\,\sum_{i=1}^{n}\partial_{x_{i}}\left[(\vert u_{x_{i}}\vert-\delta_{i})_{+}^{p-1}\frac{u_{x_{i}}}{\vert…

The issue of symmetry and symmetry breaking is fundamental in all areas of science. Symmetry is often assimilated to order and beauty while symmetry breaking is the source of many interesting phenomena such as phase transitions,…

In this article, we prove the existence of at least one positive solution for the mixed local-nonlocal semipositone problem \begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{aligned} -\Delta_p u+ (-\Delta)^s_p u &= \lambda f(u) && \text{in } \Omega, u &= 0…

It is well known that the Noether symmetry approach proves to be very useful not only to fix physically viable cosmological models but also to reduce dynamics and achieve exact solutions. In this work, We examine a formal framework of…

Let $(M,g(t))$, $0\le t\le T$, be a n-dimensional complete noncompact manifold, $n\ge 2$, with bounded curvatures and metric $g(t)$ evolving by the Ricci flow $\frac{\partial g_{ij}}{\partial t}=-2R_{ij}$. We will extend the result of L. Ma…

We prove the existence of a weak solution for a general class of Dirichlet anisotropic elliptic problems such as $\mathcal Au+\Phi(x,u,\nabla u)=\mathfrak{B}u+f$ in $\Omega$, where $\Omega$ is a bounded open subset of $\mathbb R^N$ and…

In this work we develop a systematic geometric approach to study fully nonlinear elliptic equations with singular absorption terms as well as their related free boundary problems. The magnitude of the singularity is measured by a negative…

We introduce a rigorous approach to the study of the symmetry breaking and pattern formation phenomenon for isotropic functionals with local/nonlocal interactions in competition. We consider a general class of nonlocal variational problems…

In this paper, we study the equilibria of an anisotropic, nonlocal aggregation equation with nonlinear diffusion which does not possess a gradient flow structure. Here, the anisotropy is induced by an underlying tensor field. Anisotropic…

In this paper we extend the results of \cite{S3} to the borderline case $s = \frac 12$. We obtain the classification of global bounded solutions with asymptotically flat level sets for semilinear nonlocal equations of the type…

We investigate the following mixed local and nonlocal quasilinear equation with singularity given by \begin{eqnarray*} \begin{split} -\Delta_pu+(-\Delta)_q^s u&=\frac{f(x)}{u^{\delta}}\text { in } \Omega, \\u&>0 \text{ in } \Omega,\\u&=0…