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Our paper presents a non-destructive thermal transient measurement method that is able to reveal differences even in the micron size range of MEMS structures. Devices of the same design can have differences in their sacrificial layers as…

We present the results from a numerical investigation using the finite element method to study the buckling strength of near-perfect spherical shells containing a single, localized, Gaussian-dimple defect whose profile is systematically…

In this paper we study nonnegative and classical solutions $u=u(\nx,t)$ to porous medium problems of the type \begin{equation}\label{ProblemAbstract} \tag{$\Diamond$} \begin{cases} u_t=\Delta u^m + g(u,|\nabla u|) & {\bf x} \in \Omega, t\in…

In this paper we study the local wellposedness of the solution to a non-linear parabolic-dispersive coupled system which models a Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS). A simple electrostatically actuated MEMS capacitor device has two…

We consider the self-dual Chern-Simons-Schr\"odinger equation (CSS). CSS is $L^{2}$-critical, admits solitons, and has the pseudoconformal symmetry. In this work, we consider pseudoconformal blow-up solutions under $m$-equivariance,…

We investigate novel scenarios of self-similar finite-time blowups of the generalized Constantin-Lax-Majda model with a parameter $a$, which are induced by a new setting where the smooth initial data satisfy certain derivative degeneracy…

We consider in this paper a perturbation of the standard semilinear heat equation by a term involving the space derivative and a non-local term. We prove the existence of a blow-up solution, and give its blow-up profile. Our proof relies on…

We consider the energy supercritical defocusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation $i\partial_tu+\Delta u-u|u|^{p-1}=0$ in dimension $d\ge 5$. In a suitable range of energy supercritical parameters $(d,p)$, we prove the existence of $\mathcal…

We study the continuum epitaxial model for elastic interacting atomic steps on vicinal surfaces proposed by Xiang and E (Xiang, SIAM J. Appl. Math. 63:241-258, 2002; Xiang and E, Phys. Rev. B 69:035409, 2004). The non-local term and the…

This paper deals with nonlinear parabolic equation for which a local solution in time exists and then blows up in a finite time. We consider the Chipot-Weissler equation. We study the numerical approximation, we show that the numerical…

We consider the scalar semilinear heat equation $u_t-\Delta u=f(u)$, where $f\colon[0,\infty)\to[0,\infty)$ is continuous and non-decreasing but need not be convex. We completely characterise those functions $f$ for which the equation has a…

The Neumann initial-boundary problem for the chemotaxis system \begin{align} \label{prob:abstract} \tag{$\star$} \begin{cases} u_t = \Delta u - \nabla \cdot (u \nabla v) + \kappa(|x|) u - \mu(|x|) u^p, \\ 0 = \Delta v -…

The study of blow-up solution of time-fractional heat equations is of significant and wide-ranging interest for its multitude of applications. These types of equations are used to model several real problems in science and engineering. This…

We study systems of nonlinear ordinary differential equations where the dominant term, with respect to large spatial variables, causes blow-ups and is positively homogeneous of a degree $1+\alpha$ for some $\alpha>0$. We prove that the…

We construct a finite-time blow-up solution to the mass-critical focusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on a metric star graph with an arbitrary number of edges. We show that all solutions are global if their mass is smaller than an…

In this paper, we consider a nonlinear PDE system governed by a parabolic heat equation coupled in a nonlinear way with a hyperbolic momentum equation describing the behavior of a displacement field coupled with a nonlinear elliptic…

We consider a model of cell motion with boundary signal production which describes some aspects of eukaryotic cell migration. Generic polarity markers located in the cell are transported by actin which they help to polymerize. This leads to…

The effect of quenched disorder on the low-energy and low-temperature properties of various two- and three-dimensional Heisenberg models is studied by a numerical strong disorder renormalization group method. For strong enough disorder we…

The finite element simulation of dynamic wetting phenomena, requiring the computation of flow in a domain confined by intersecting a liquid-fluid free surface and a liquid-solid interface, with the three-phase contact line moving across the…

We make progress towards a 3D finite-element model for the magnetization of a high temperature superconductor (HTS): We suggest a method that takes into account demagnetisation effects and flux creep, while it neglects the effects…