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We consider the large time behavior of the solutions to the Cauchy problem for the BBM-Burgers equation. We prove that the solution to this problem goes to the self-similar solution to the Burgers equation called the nonlinear diffusion…

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The time-fractional porous medium equation is an important model of many hydrological, physical, and chemical flows. We study its self-similar solutions, which make up the profiles of many important experimentally measured situations. We…

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We present a numerical approximation method for linear diffusion-reaction problems with possibly discontinuous Dirichlet boundary conditions. The solution of such problems can be represented as a linear combination of explicitly known…

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In this short communication, we announce an algorithmic procedure for constructing non-uniqueness counter-examples of classical solutions to initial-boundary-value problems for a wide class of linear evolution partial differential…

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We study a finite system of diffusions on the half-line, absorbed when they hit zero, with a correlation effect that is controlled by the proportion of the processes that have been absorbed. As the number of processes in the system becomes…

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In this paper, we consider the Cauchy problem for semi-linear wave equations with structural damping term $\nu (-\Delta)^2 u_t$, where $\nu >0$ is a constant. As being mentioned in [8,10], the linear principal part brings both the diffusion…

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