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We prove convergence of positive solutions to \[ u_t = u\Delta u + u\int_{\Omega} |\nabla u|^2, \qquad u\rvert_{\partial\Omega} =0, \qquad u(\cdot,0)=u_0 \] in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^n$, $n\ge 1$, with smooth boundary in…

The motion of rarefied gases for uniform shear flow at the kinetic level is governed by the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation with a deformation force. In the paper we study the corresponding Cauchy problem with initial data of…

We study nonlinear diffusion problems of the form $u_t=u_{xx}+f(u)$ with free boundaries. Such problems may be used to describe the spreading of a biological or chemical species, with the free boundary representing the expanding front. For…

A complete family of solutions for the one-dimensional reaction-diffusion equation \[ u_{xx}(x,t)-q(x)u(x,t) = u_t(x,t) \] with a coefficient $q$ depending on $x$ is constructed. The solutions represent the images of the heat polynomials…

We consider nonlinear parabolic equations involving fractional diffusion of the form $\partial_t u + (-\Delta)^s \Phi(u)= 0,$ with $0<s<1$, and solve an open problem concerning the existence of solutions for very singular nonlinearities…

In this paper, we are considering the Cauchy problem of the nonlinear heat equation $u\_t -\Delta u= u^{3 },\ u(0,x)=u\_0$. After extending Y. Meyer's result establishing the existence of global solutions, under a smallness condition of the…

In this article we deal with the Cauchy problem for the quasi-linear scalar conservation law \[u_t+ {\cal F}(u)_t+u_x=0,\] where ${\cal F}$ is a specific hysteresis operator, namely the Play operator. Hysteresis models a rate-independent…

In this paper, we are concerned with the Cauchy problem for the reaction-diffusion equation with time-dependent absorption $u_{t}-\Delta_{\mathbb{H}}u=- k(t)u^p$ posed on $\mathbb{H}^n$, driven by the Heisenberg Laplacian and supplemented…

We consider the following Cauchy problem for the semi linear heat equation on the hyperbolic space: \begin{align}\label{abs:eqn} \left\{\begin{array}{ll} \partial_{t}u=\Delta_{\mathbb{H}^{n}} u+ f(u, t) &\hbox{ in }~ \mathbb{H}^{n}\times…

We will extend a recent result of B.Choi, P.Daskalopoulos and J.King. For any $n\ge 3$, $0<m<\frac{n-2}{n+2}$ and $\gamma>0$, we will construct subsolutions and supersolutions of the fast diffusion equation $u_t=\frac{n-1}{m}\Delta u^m$ in…

In this paper we study a convection-reaction-diffusion equation of the form \begin{equation*} u_t=\varepsilon(h(u)u_x)_x-f(u)_x+f'(u), \quad t>0, \end{equation*} with a nonlinear diffusion in a bounded interval of the real line. In…

The current paper is devoted to the study of semilinear dispersal evolution equations of the form $$ u_t(t,x)=(\mathcal{A}u)(t,x)+u(t,x)f(t,x,u(t,x)),\quad x\in\mathcal{H}, $$ where $\mathcal{H}=\RR^N$ or $\ZZ^N$, $\mathcal{A}$ is a random…

We develop a kind of fractional calculus and theory of relaxation and diffusion equations associated with operators in the time variable, of the form $(Du)(t)=\frac{d}{dt}\int\limits_0^tk(t-\tau)u(\tau)\,d\tau -k(t)u(0)$ where $k$ is a…

We study the homogeneous Cauchy-Dirichlet Problem (CDP) for a nonlinear and nonlocal diffusion equation of singular type of the form $\partial_t u =-\mathcal{L} u^m$ posed on a bounded Euclidean domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^N$ with…

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We propose a new method for constructing exact solutions to nonlinear delay reaction--diffusion equations of the form $$ u_t=ku_{xx}+F(u,w), $$ where $u=u(x,t)$, $w=u(x,t-\tau)$, and $\tau$ is the delay time. The method is based on…

We study the following Cauchy problem for the linear wave equation with both time-dependent friction and time-dependent viscoelastic damping: \begin{equation} \label{EqAbstract}\tag{$\ast$} \begin{cases} u_{tt}- \Delta u + b(t)u_t -…

In this paper we prove the global in time well-posedness of the following non-local diffusion equation with $\alpha \in[0,2/3)$: $$ \partial_t u = {(-\triangle)^{-1}u} \triangle u + \alpha u^2, \quad u(t=0) = u_0. $$ The initial condition…

We study a monostable reaction-diffusion equation of the form $u_t=du_{xx}+f(u)$ over a semi-infinite spatial domain $[g(t),\infty)$, with $x=g(t)$ the free boundary whose evolution is governed by equations derived from a ``preferred…