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The phenomenon of finite time blow-up in hydrodynamic partial differential equations is central in analysis and mathematical physics. While numerical studies have guided theoretical breakthroughs, it is challenging to determine if the…
In this paper we present a method for extending the blowup method, in the formulation of Krupa and Szmolyan, to flat slow manifolds that lose hyperbolicity beyond any algebraic order. Although these manifolds have infinite co-dimension,…
In this paper we consider bubbling solutions to the general Liouville system: \label{abeq1} \Delta_g u_i^k+\sum_{j=1}^n a_{ij}\rho_j^k(\frac{h_j e^{u_j^k}}{\int h_j e^{u_j^k}}-1)=0\quad\text{in}M, i=1,...,n (n\ge 2) where $(M,g)$ is a…
We are concerned with the qualitative analysis of positive singular solutions with blow-up boundary for a class of logistic-type equations with slow diffusion and variable potential. We establish the exact blow-up rate of solutions near the…
For the prescribed scalar curvature equation on $S^n$ ($n \ge 6$), we consider the situation where the number of bubbles tends to infinity in the Lyapunov-Schmidt (finite dimension) reduction method. In an outstanding paper by Wei and Yan,…
We revisit, both numerically and analytically, the finite-time blowup of the infinite-energy solution of 3D Euler equations of stagnation-point-type introduced by Gibbon et al. (1999). By employing the method of mapping to regular systems,…
Under mean curvature flow, a closed, embedded hypersurface $M(t)$ becomes singular in finite time. For certain classes of mean-convex mean curvature flows, we show the continuity of the first singular time $T$ and the limit set "$M(T)$",…
We consider the Schr\"odinger equation in dimension two with a fixed, pointwise, focusing nonlinearity and show the occurrence of a blow-up phenomenon with two peculiar features: first, the energy threshold under which all solutions blow up…
Given a sufficiently symmetric domain $\Omega\Subset\mathbb{R}^2$, for any $k\in \mathbb{N}\setminus \{0\}$ and $\beta>4\pi k$ we construct blowing-up solutions $(u_\varepsilon)\subset H^1_0(\Omega)$ to the Moser-Trudinger equation such…
In this article we are concerned with the existence of blow-up solutions to the following boundary value problem $$-\Delta v= \lambda V(x) |x|^2e^v\;\mbox{in}\quad B_1,\quad v=0 \;\mbox{ on }\quad \partial B_1,$$ where $B_1$ is the unit…
In spherical symmetry compelling numerical evidence suggests that in general relativity solutions near the threshold of black hole formation exhibit critical behavior. One aspect of this is that threshold solutions themselves are…
Consider a nonlinear wave equation for a massless scalar field with self-interaction in the spatially flat de Sitter spacetime. We show that blow-up in a finite time occurs for the equation with arbitrary power nonlinearity as well as upper…
For the 3d cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation, which has critical (scaling) norms $L^3$ and $\dot H^{1/2}$, we first prove a result establishing sufficient conditions for global existence and sufficient conditions for finite-time…
We consider a nonlocal parabolic PDE, which may be regarded as the standard semilinear heat equation with power nonlinearity, where the nonlinear term is divided by some Sobolev norm of the solution. In this paper, we are interested in…
This paper is concerned with the analysis of blow-up solutions to the elliptic-elliptic Davey-Stewartson system, which appears in the description of the evolution of surface water waves. We prove a mass concentration property for…
The authors of this paper study singular phenomena(vanishing and blowing-up in finite time) of solutions to the homogeneous $\hbox{Dirichlet}$ boundary value problem of nonlinear diffusion equations involving $p(x)$-\hbox{Laplacian}…
We study the following Liouville system defined on a compact Riemann surface $M$, \begin{equation} -\Delta u_i=\sum_{j=1}^n a_{ij}\rho_j\Big(\frac{h_j e^{u_j}}{\int_\Omega h_j e^{u_j}}-1\Big)\mbox{ in }M\mbox{ for }i=1,\cdots,n,\nonumber…
We consider spherically symmetric supercritical focusing wave equations outside a ball. Using mixed analytical and numerical methods, we show that the threshold for blowup is given by a codimension-one stable manifold of the unique static…
In this paper, we study the degree counting formula of the rank two Toda system with simple singular source when $\rho_1\in(0,4\pi)\cup(4\pi,8\pi)$ and $\rho_2\notin 4\pi\mathbb{N}.$ The key step is to derive the degree formula of the…
We study the space-time concentration or blow-up asymptotics of radially decreasing solutions of the parabolic-elliptic Keller-Segel system in the whole space or in a ball. We show that, for any solution in dimensions $3\le n\le 9$…