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Recent work on the dynamics of a crystal surface [T.Frisch and A.Verga, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 166104 (2006)] has focused the attention on the conserved Kuramoto-Sivashinsky (CKS) equation: \partial_t u = -\partial_{xx}(u+u_{xx}+u_x^2), which…
Experimental results on amorphous ZrAlCu thin film growth and the dynamics of the surface morphology as predicted from a minimal nonlinear stochastic deposition equation are analysed and compared. Key points of this study are (i) an…
We report numerical simulations of one-dimensional cellular solutions of the stabilized Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation. This equation offers a range of generic behavior in pattern-forming instabilities of moving interfaces, such as a host of…
In two spatial dimensions, there are very few global existence results for the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation. The majority of the few results in the literature are strongly anisotropic, i.e. are results of thin-domain type. In the spatially…
The thin-film equation $\partial_t u = -\nabla \cdot (u^n \nabla \Delta u)$ describes the evolution of the height $u=u(x,t)\geq 0$ of a viscous thin liquid film spreading on a flat solid surface. We prove H\"older continuity of…
The growth of crystal surfaces, under non-equilibrium conditions, involves the displacement of mono-atomic steps by atom diffusion and atom incorporations into steps. The time-evolution of the growing crystal surface is thus governed by a…
We study a continuum model for solid films that arises from the modeling of one-dimensional step flows on a vicinal surface in the attachment-detachment-limited regime. The resulting nonlinear partial differential equation, $u_t =…
We propose and prove several regularity criteria for the 2D and 3D Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation, in both its scalar and vector forms. In particular, we examine integrability criteria for the regularity of solutions in terms of the scalar…
We study the existence of solutions of a nonlinear parabolic problem of Cauchy-Dirichlet type having a lower order term which depends on the gradient. The model we have in mind is the following: \[ \begin{cases}\begin{split} &…
In this paper we prove some integral estimates on the minimal growth of the positive part $u_+$ of subsolutions of quasilinear equations \[ \mathrm{div} A(x,u,\nabla u) = V|u|^{p-2}u \] on complete Riemannian manifolds $M$, in the…
We study a noisy Kuramoto-Sivashinsky (KS) equation which describes unstable surface growth and chemical turbulence. It has been conjectured that the universal long-wavelength behavior of the equation, which is characterized by…
The one-dimension Russo--Smereka kinetic equation describing the propagation of nonlinear concentration waves in a rarefied bubbly fluid is considered. Reductions of the model to finite component systems are derived. Stability of the bubbly…
This report provides an investigation into solving the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation in two spatial dimensions (2DKS) using a pseudo-spectral method on various rectangular periodic domains. The Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation is a fluid…
Monte Carlo simulations are employed to investigate the surface growth generated by deposition of particles of different sizes on a substrate, in one and two dimensions. The particles have a linear form, and occupy an integer number of…
This paper presents numerical results for the two-dimensional isotropic Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation (KSE) with an additional nonlinear term and a single independent parameter. Surfaces generated by this equation exhibit a certain…
We study the asymptotic limit of the Cahn-Hilliard equation on an evolving surface with prescribed velocity. The method of formally matched asymptotic expansions is extended to account for the movement of the domain. We consider various…
Short time existence for a surface diffusion evolution equation with curvature regularization is proved in the context of epitaxially strained three-dimensional films. This is achieved by implementing a minimizing movement scheme, which is…
Initial-boundary value problems for the $n$-dimensional ($n$ is a natural number from the interval [2,7]) Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation posed on smooth bounded domains in $\mathbb{R}^n$ were considered. The existence and uniqueness of…
We initiate the study of a new nonlinear parabolic equation on a Riemann surface. The evolution equation arises as a reduction of the Anomaly flow on a fibration. We obtain a criterion for long-time existence for this flow, and give a range…
We obtain polynomial bounds on the growth in time of Sobolev norm of solutions to the cubic defocusing nonlinear Schrodinger equation on two dimensional product space. We also give the angular improved bilinear Strichartz estimates for…