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We consider co-rotational wave maps from the $(1+d)$-dimensional Minkowski space into the $d$-sphere for $d\geq 3$ odd. This is an energy-supercritical model which is known to exhibit finite-time blowup via self-similar solutions. Based on…
We consider the energy critical harmonic heat flow from $\Bbb R^2$ into a smooth compact revolution surface of $\Bbb R^3$. For initial data with corotational symmetry, the evolution reduces to the semilinear radially symmetric parabolic…
In this paper, we consider a blow-up solution for the complex-valued semilinear wave equation with power nonlinearity in one space dimension. We first characterize all the solutions of the associated stationary problem as a two-parameter…
We classify the finite time blow-up profiles for the following reaction-diffusion equation with unbounded weight: $$ \partial_tu=\Delta u^m+|x|^{\sigma}u^p, $$ posed in any space dimension $x\in\mathbf{R}^N$, $t\geq0$ and with exponents…
We establish the first complete classification of finite-time blow-up scenarios for strong solutions to the three-dimensional incompressible Euler equations with surface tension in a bounded domain possessing a closed, moving free boundary.…
We prove finite time blowup of the Burgers-Hilbert equation. We construct smooth initial data with finite $H^5$-norm such that the $L^\infty$-norm of the spacial derivative of the solution blows up. The blowup is an asymptotic self-similar…
We consider Burgers equation with transverse viscosity $$\partial_tu+u\partial_xu-\partial_{yy}u=0, \ \ (x,y)\in \mathbb R^2, \ \ u:[0,T)\times \mathbb R^2\rightarrow \mathbb R.$$ We construct and describe precisely a family of solutions…
If $p>1+2/n$ then the equation $u_t-\Delta u = u^p, \quad x\in{\mathbb R}^n,\ t>0,$ possesses both positive global solutions and positive solutions which blow up in finite time. We study the large time behavior of radial positive solutions…
In this paper, we consider the fractional heat equation with critical exponent in $\mathbb{R}^n$ for $n>6s,s\in(0,1),$ \begin{equation*} u_t=-(-\Delta)^su+|u|^{\frac{4s}{n-2s}}u,\quad (x,t)\in \mathbb{R}^n\times\mathbb{R}. \end{equation*}…
We consider co-rotational wave maps from (3+1) Minkowski space into the three-sphere. This is an energy supercritical model which is known to exhibit finite time blow up via self-similar solutions. The ground state self-similar solution…
We rigorously construct a family of smooth self-similar solutions to the isentropic gravitational Euler-Poisson system with a polytropic equation of state for polytropic indices lying in the full energy-supercritical range,…
We verify the existence of radial positive solutions for the semi-linear equation $$ -\,\Delta u=u^{p}\,-\,V(y)\,u^{q},\,\quad\quad u>0,\quad\quad\mbox{ in }\mathbb{R}^N$$ where $N\geq 3$, $p$ is close to $p^*:=(N+2)/(N-2)$, and $V$ is a…
We construct a solution to a complex nonlinear heat equation which blows up in finite time $T$ only at one blow-up point. We also give a sharp description of its blow-up profile. The proof relies on the reduction of the problem to a finite…
We consider the nonlinear wave equation $i \partial_t u= \sqrt{-\Delta + m^2} u - (|x|^{-1} \ast |u|^2) u$ on $\RR^3$ modelling the dynamics of (pseudo-relativistic) boson stars. For spherically symmetric initial data, $u_0(x) \in…
We consider the 3D isentropic compressible Euler equations with the ideal gas law. We provide a constructive proof of shock formation from smooth initial datum of finite energy, with no vacuum regions, with nontrivial vorticity present at…
In this paper, we study the finite-time blow up of solutions to the following semilinear wave equation with time-dependent damping \[ \partial_t^2u-\Delta u+\frac{\mu}{1+t}\partial_tu=|u|^p \] in $\mathbb{R}_{+}\times\mathbb{R}^n$. More…
We consider the following Cauchy problem for the four-dimensional energy critical heat equation \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} u_t=\Delta u+u^{3} ~&\mbox{ in }~ {\mathbb R}^4 \times (0,\infty),\\ u(x,0)=u_0(x) ~&\mbox{ in }~ {\mathbb R}^4.…
We address the critical norm blow-up problem for the nonlinear heat equation $u_t-\Delta u=|u|^{p-1}u$ in $\mathbf{R}^n\times(0,T)$. In the supercritical range $p>(n+2)/(n-2)$, we prove that if the maximal existence time $T$ is finite, then…
This paper is denoted to the study of dynamical behavior near explicit finite time blowup solutions for three dimensional incompressible Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations. More precisely, we find a family of explicit finite time blowup…
We study the blow-up problem of one-dimensional nonlinear heat equations. Our result shows that for a certain class of initial conditions, the solutions blow up in finite time and we characterize the asymptotic dynamics of these solutions.…