Related papers: On strongly anisotropic type I blow up
We prove finite-time Type-I blowup for the three-dimensional incompressible Euler equations in the axisymmetric no-swirl class, with initial velocity in $C^{1,\alpha}(\mathbb{R}^3)\cap L^2(\mathbb{R}^3)$, odd symmetry in $z$, and…
Let $v$ be a solution of the axially symmetric Euler equations (ASE) in a finite cylinder in $\mathbb{R}^3$. We show that suitable blow-up limits of possible velocity singularity and most self similar vorticity singularity near maximal…
This paper investigates the connection between blow-up solutions of scalar reaction-diffusion equations, in particular of $u_t = u_{xx} + u^2, $ and its counterpart - eternally existing solutions like heteroclinic orbits - by complex time.…
We consider the nonlinear half laplacian heat equation $$ u_t+(-\Delta)^{\frac{1}{2}} u-|u|^{p-1}u=0,\quad \mathbb{R}^n\times (0, T). $$ We prove that all blows-up are type I, provided that $n \leq 4$ and $ 1<p<p_{*} (n)$ where $ p_{*} (n)$…
This is Part II of our paper in which we prove finite time blowup of the 2D Boussinesq and 3D axisymmetric Euler equations with smooth initial data of finite energy and boundary. In Part I of our paper [ChenHou2023a], we establish an…
We study the blow up profiles associated to the following second order reaction-diffusion equation with non-homogeneous reaction: $$ \partial_tu=\partial_{xx}(u^m) + |x|^{\sigma}u, $$ with $\sigma>0$. Through this study, we show that the…
We prove the existence of a global solution of the energy-critical focusing wave equation in dimension $5$ blowing up in infinite time at any $K$ given points $z_k$ of $\mathbb{R}^5$, where $K\geq 2$. The concentration rate of each bubble…
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…
We prove that any sufficiently differentiable space-like hypersurface of ${\mathbb R}^{1+N} $ coincides locally around any of its points with the blow-up surface of a finite-energy solution of the focusing nonlinear wave equation…
We consider the following nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with an inverse potential: \[ i\frac{\partial u}{\partial t}+\Delta u+|u|^{\frac{4}{N}}u\pm\frac{1}{|x|^{2\sigma}}\log|x|u=0 \] in $\mathbb{R}^N$. From the classical argument, the…
We consider the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation $i\partial_tu+\Delta u+u|u|^{p-1}=0$ in dimension $N\geq 2$ and in the mass super critical and energy subcritical range $1+\frac 4N<p<\min\{\frac{N+2}{N-2},5\}.$ For initial data $u_0\in H^1$…
We prove that solutions to the critical wave equation below can not be global if the initial values are positive somewhere and nonnegative. This completes the solution to the famous blow up conjecture about critical semilinear wave…
We consider the higher-order semilinear parabolic equation $$ \partial_t u = -(-\Delta)^{m} u + u|u|^{p-1}, $$ in the whole space $\mathbb{R}^N$, where $p > 1$ and $m \geq 1$ is an odd integer. We exhibit type I non self-similar blowup…
We consider the semilinear heat equation $$ u_t-\Delta u=|u|^{p-1}u,\ \ (t,x)\in\mathbb{R}^+\times\mathbb{R}^n. $$ The well-known difficulty with this problem is that the potential well method cannot be applied directly, due to the scaling…
We classify radially symmetric self-similar profiles presenting finite time blow-up to the quasilinear diffusion equation with weighted source $$ u_t=\Delta u^m+|x|^{\sigma}u^p, $$ posed for $(x,t)\in\real^N\times(0,T)$, $T>0$, in dimension…
We consider the Yangs-Mills equations in 4+1 dimensions. This is the energy critical case and we show that it admits a family of solutions which blow up in finite time. They are obtained by the spherically symmetric ansatz in the SO(4)…
We investigate in this work families $(u_\epsilon)_{\epsilon >0}$ of sign-changing blowing-up solutions of asymptotically critical stationary nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations of the following type: $$\Delta_g u_\epsilon + h_\epsilon…
We study dynamical properties of blowup solutions to the focusing $L^2$-supercritical nonlinear fractional Schr\"odinger equation \[ i\partial_t u -(-\Delta)^s u = -|u|^\alpha u, \quad u(0) = u_0, \quad \text{on } [0,\infty) \times…
We derive a blow-up dichotomy for positive solutions of fractional semilinear heat equations on the whole space. That is, within a certain class of convex source terms, we establish a necessary and sufficient condition on the source for all…
We investigate a hyperbolic PDE, modeling wave propagation in viscoelastic media, under the influence of a linear memory term of Boltzmann type, and a nonlinear damping modeling friction, as well as an energy-amplifying supercritical…