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A mathematical model for the discrete nonlinear fragmentation (collision-induced breakage) equation with diffusion is studied. The existence of global weak solutions is established in arbitrary spatial dimensions without assuming a strictly…
We prove global existence of a nonnegative weak solution to a degenerate parabolic system, which models the spreading of insoluble surfactant on a thin liquid film.
We find an explicit form of weak solutions to a Riemann problem for a degenerate semilinear parabolic equation with piecewise constant diffusion coefficient. It is demonstrated that the phase transition lines (free boundaries) correspond to…
We study the long-time behaviour of solutions to quasilinear doubly degenerate parabolic problems of fourth order. The equations model for instance the dynamic behaviour of a non-Newtonian thin-film flow on a flat impermeable bottom and…
We study the steady states and dynamics of a thin film-type equation with non-conserved mass in one dimension. The evolution equation is a nonlinear fourth-order degenerate parabolic PDE motivated by a model of volatile viscous fluid films…
This paper studies the nonlinear stochastic partial differential equation of fractional orders both in space and time variables: \[ \left(\partial^\beta+\frac{\nu}{2}(-\Delta)^{\alpha/2}\right)u(t,x) =…
We prove existence of smooth solutions to linear degenerate parabolic equations on bounded domains assuming a structure condition of Fichera. We use this to give a proof of a smooth short time existence result for the porous medium equation…
Local oscillatory and other properties of source-type solutions of doubly nonlinear sixth-order parabolic thin film equations are studied.
We consider following fourth-order parabolic equation with gradient nonlinearity on the two-dimensional torus with and without advection of an incompressible vector field in the case $2<p<3$: \begin{equation*} \partial_t u + (-\Delta)^2 u =…
We study the positivity and regularity of solutions to the fractional porous medium equations $u_t+(-\Delta)^su^m=0$ in $(0,\infty)\times\Omega$, for $m>1$ and $s\in (0,1)$ and with Dirichlet boundary data $u=0$ in…
We study a porous medium equation with fractional potential pressure: $$ \partial_t u= \nabla \cdot (u^{m-1} \nabla p), \quad p=(-\Delta)^{-s}u, $$ for $m>1$, $0<s<1$ and $u(x,t)\ge 0$. The problem is posed for $x\in \mathbb{R}^N$, $N\geq…
We consider a power-law thin-film equation for strongly shear-thinning fluids. Weak solutions to this equation have been constructed more than twenty years ago by Ansini and Giacomelli. Here, we pass over to analyzing strong solutions with…
When high-frequency sound waves travel through media with anomalous diffusion, such as biological tissues, their motion can be described by nonlinear wave equations of fractional higher order. These can be understood as nonlocal…
The singular limit of the thin film Muskat problem is performed when the density (and possibly the viscosity) of the lighter fluid vanishes and the porous medium equation is identified as the limit problem. In particular, the height of the…
Thin film rupture is a type of nonlinear instability that causes the solution to touch down to zero at finite time. We investigate the finite-time rupture behavior of a generalized elastohydrodynamic lubrication model. This model features…
This paper studies the derivation of the quadratic porous medium equation and a class of cross-diffusion systems from nonlocal interactions. We prove convergence of solutions of a nonlocal interaction equation, resp. system, to solutions of…
We consider degenerate porous medium equations with a divergence type of drift terms. We establish the existence of $L^{q}$-weak solutions (satisfying energy estimates or even further with moment and speed estimates in Wasserstein spaces),…
In this paper we deal with a non-linear parabolic problem which involving a convection term with super--linear growth, whose model is \[ \frac{\partial u}{\partial t}-\div(\mathcal{M}(x,t)\nabla u)= -\div(u\log (e+|u|)E(x,t))+f(x,t), \]…
Qualitative properties of non-negative solutions to a quasilinear degenerate parabolic equation with an absorption term depending solely on the gradient are shown, providing information on the competition between the nonlinear diffusion and…