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We study the behavior of solutions of a monostable reaction-diffusion equation $u_t=\Delta_x u +u_{yy} +f(u)$ ($x \in \mathbb{R}^{n-1}$, $y \in \mathbb{R}$, $t>0$), with the unstable equilibrium point $0$ and the stable equilibrium point…

A mesh condition is developed for linear finite element approximations of anisotropic diffusion-convection-reaction problems to satisfy a discrete maximum principle. Loosely speaking, the condition requires that the mesh be simplicial and…

We prove the growth rate of global solutions of the equation $u_t=\Delta u-u^{-\nu}$ in $\R^n\times (0,\infty)$, $u(x,0)=u_0>0$ in $\R^n$, where $\nu>0$ is a constant. More precisely for any $0<u_0\in C(\R^n)$ satisfying…

In this paper, we design a semi-implicit scheme for the scalar time fractional reaction-diffusion equation. We theoretically prove that the numerical scheme is stable without the restriction on the ratio of the time and space stepsizes, and…

The existence of nonnegative radially symmetric eternal solutions of exponential self-similar type $u(t,x)=e^{-p\beta t/(2-p)} f_\beta(|x|e^{-\beta t};\beta)$ is investigated for the singular diffusion equation with critical gradient…

We study the persistence and propagation (or blocking) phenomena for a species in periodically hostile environments. The problem is described by a reaction-diffusion equation with zero Dirichlet boundary condition. We first derive the…

We investigate an optimization problem that arises when working within the paradigm of Data-Driven Computational Mechanics. In the context of the diffusion-reaction problem, such an optimization problem seeks for the continuous primal…

Let $n\ge 3$, $0<m<\frac{n-2}{n}$, $\rho_1>0$, $\beta\ge\frac{m\rho_1}{n-2-nm}$ and $\alpha=\frac{2\beta+\rho_1}{1-m}$. For any $\lambda>0$, we will prove the existence and uniqueness (for $\beta\ge\frac{\rho_1}{n-2-nm}$) of radially…

Let $n\geq 3$, $0< m<\frac{n-2}{n}$ and $T>0$. We construct positive solutions to the fast diffusion equation $u_t=\Delta u^m$ in $\mathbb{R}^n\times(0,T)$, which vanish at time $T$. By introducing a scaling parameter $\beta$ inspired by…

We study asymptotic behavior of positive smooth solutions of the conformal scalar curvature equation in ${\bf R}^n$. We consider the case when the scalar curvature of the conformal metric is bounded between two positive numbers outside a…

We consider the semilinear diffusion equation $\partial$ t u = Au + |u| $\alpha$ u in the half-space R N + := R N --1 x (0, +$\infty$), where A is a linear diffusion operator, which may be the classical Laplace operator, or a fractional…

We study qualitative properties of non-negative solutions to the Cauchy problem for the fast diffusion equation with gradient absorption \partial_t u -\Delta_{p}u+|\nabla u|^{q}=0\quad in\;\; (0,\infty)\times\RR^N, where $N\ge 1$,…

We consider a class of mass transfer models on a one-dimensional lattice with nearest-neighbour interactions. The evolution is given by the discrete backward fast diffusion equation, with exponent $\beta$ in the regime $(-\infty,0) \cup…

Ratio-dependent predator-prey models have been increasingly favored by field ecologists where predator-prey interactions have to be taken into account the process of predation search. In this paper we study the conditions of the existence…

We study the asymptotic speed of traveling fronts of the scalar reaction diffusion for positive reaction terms and with a diffusion coefficient depending nonlinearly on the concentration and on its gradient. We restrict our study to…

Let $n\ge 3$, $0<m<\frac{n-2}{n}$, $\gamma>0$ and $\eta>0$. Suppose either (i) $\alpha\ne 0$ and $\beta=0$ or (ii) $\alpha\in\mathbb{R}$ and $\beta\ne 0$ holds. We will study the elliptic equation $\Delta (f^m/m)+\alpha f+\beta x\cdot\nabla…

Let n>2, $0<m\le (n-2)/n$, p>\max(1,(1-m)n/2), and $0\le u_0\in L_{loc}^p(R^n)$ satisfy $\liminf_{R\to\infty}R^{-n+\frac{2}{1-m}}\int_{|x|\le R}u_0\,dx=\infty$. We prove the existence of unique global classical solution of…

The behaviour is investigated of solutions to a diffusion equation on the real line with nonlocal and singular reaction term, i.e., given by a Dirac source or sink at the origin. It gives a simplified representation of for example a control…

In this work we consider $$ w_t=[(w_{hh}+c_0)^{-3}]_{hh},\qquad w(0)=w^0, $$ which is derived from a thin film equation for epitaxial growth on vicinal surface. We formulate the problem as the gradient flow of a suitably-defined convex…

Classical results in the theory of monotone semiflows give sufficient conditions for the generic solution to converge toward an equilibrium or towards the set of equilibria (quasiconvergence). In this paper, we provide new formulations of…