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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.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Chengchun Hao , Tao Luo , Siqi Yang

We study the free-boundary equation \[ \Delta u=\chi_{\{|\nabla u|>0\}} \] near the origin. We prove that, at a singular point of \(\partial\{|\nabla u|>0\}\), the quadratic blow-up is unique. As noted in \cite[Notes to Chapter 7]{PSU2012},…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Shibing Chen , Yuanyuan Li , Xianduo Wang

In this paper, we study the formation of finite time singularities in the form of super norm blowup for a spatially inhomogeneous hyperbolic system. The system is related to the variational wave equations as those in [18]. The system posses…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-21 Geng Chen , Tao Huang , Chun Liu

The classical pitchfork of singularity theory is a twice-degenerate bifurcation that typically occurs in dynamical system models exhibiting Z_2 symmetry. Non-classical pitchfork singularities also occur in many non-symmetric systems, where…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Rowena Ball

In this paper we investigate analytically the formation of finite time singularities in the three dimensional incompressible Euler equations under the model of Gibbon, Fokas, and Doering for vorticity stretching within a bounded cylindrical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-11 Yinshen Xu , Miguel D. Bustamante

This paper investigates the properties of classical solutions to a class of chemotaxis systems that model interactions between tumor and immune cells. Our focus is on examining the global existence and explosion of such solutions in bounded…

We introduce a novel mechanism that reveals finite time singularities within the 1D De Gregorio model and the 3D incompressible Euler equations. Remarkably, we do not construct our blow up using self-similar coordinates, but build it from…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-25 Diego Córdoba , Luis Martínez-Zoroa , Fan Zheng

This work is devoted to study of a class of elliptic singular perturbed systems and their singular limit to a phase segregating system. We prove existence and uniqueness and study the asymptotic behaviour with convergence to a limiting…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-28 Farid Bozorgnia , Martin Burger

The singular parabolic problem $u_t-\triangle u=\lambda{\frac{1+\delta|\nabla u|^2}{(1-u)^2}}$ on a bounded domain $\Omega$ of $\mathbb{R}^n$ with Dirichlet boundary condition, models the Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) device with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-02-04 Xue Luo , Stephen S. -T. Yau

Tangencies correspond to singularities of impact systems, separating between impacting and non-impacting trajectory segments. The closure of their orbits constitute the singularity set, which, even in the simpler billiard limit, is known to…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-10-25 M. Pnueli , V. Rom-Kedar

In this paper, we prove the existence of smooth initial data for the 2D free boundary incompressible Euler equations (also known for some particular scenarios as the water wave problem), for which the smoothness of the interface breaks down…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-10-02 Angel Castro , Diego Córdoba , Charles Fefferman , Francisco Gancedo , Javier Gómez-Serrano

In fluid dynamics, an interface splash singularity occurs when a locally smooth interface self-intersects in finite time. By means of elementary arguments, we prove that such a singularity cannot occur in finite time for vortex sheet…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-19 Daniel Coutand , Steve Shkoller

A finite subgroup of the conformal group SL(2,C) can be related to invariant polynomials on a hypersurface in C^3. The latter then carries a simple singularity, which resolves by a finite iteration of basic cycles of deprojections. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-01 M. Rainer

Confinement effects by rigid boundaries in the dynamics of ideal fluids are considered from the perspective of long-wave models and their parent Euler systems, with the focus on the consequences of establishing contacts of material surfaces…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-08-19 R. Camassa , G. Falqui , G. Ortenzi , M. Pedroni , C. Thomson

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 "$M(T)$",…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-03-09 Kevin Sonnanburg

We prove the uniqueness of $L^1$ blow-down limit at infinity for an entire minimizing solution $u:\mathbb{R}^2\rightarrow\mathbb{R}^2$ of a planar Allen-Cahn system with a triple-well potential. Consequently, $u$ can be approximated by a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Zhiyuan Geng

In General Relativity a space-time $M$ is regarded singular if there is an obstacle that prevents an incomplete curve in $M$ to be continued. Usually, such a space-time is completed to form $\bar{M} = M \cup \partial M$ where $\partial M$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-27 Michael Heller , Jerzy Król

Whether the 3D incompressible Euler equations can develop a finite time singularity from smooth initial data is one of the most challenging problems in nonlinear PDEs. In this paper, we present some new numerical evidence that the 3D…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-30 Thomas Y. Hou

In this paper we study regularity properties of the free boundary problem from superconductivity close to a fixed boundary. If the origin is a free boundary point, then we show that the free boundary touches the fixed boundary tangentially.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Norayr Matevosyan

A semilinear parabolic equation with constraint modeling the dynamics of a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) is studied. In contrast to the commonly used MEMS model, the well-known pull-in phenomenon occurring above a critical potential…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-13 Philippe Laurencot , Christoph Walker