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For the quintic, mass critical generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation, for any $\nu \in (\frac{1}{2}, 1)$, we prove the existence of solutions in the energy space that blow up in finite time $T>0$ with the blow-up rate $\|\partial_x…

We study a stationary scattering problem related to the nonlinear Helmholtz equation $-\Delta u - k^2 u = f(x,u) \ \ \text{in $\mathbb{R}^N$,}$ where $N \ge 3$ and $k>0$. For a given incident free wave $\varphi \in L^\infty(\mathbb{R}^N)$,…

This paper estimates the blow-up time for the heat equation $u_t=\Delta u$ with a local nonlinear Neumann boundary condition: The normal derivative $\partial u/\partial n=u^{q}$ on $\Gamma_{1}$, one piece of the boundary, while on the rest…

Blow-up rates are established for general solutions to the quasilinear diffusion equation $$ \partial_tu=\Delta u^m+|x|^{\sigma}u^p, \quad (x,t)\in\mathbb{R}^N\times(0,T), $$ in the range of exponents $1<p<m$, $\sigma>0$. More precisely, if…

The aim of this paper is to give global nonexistence and blow--up results for the problem $$ \begin{cases} u_{tt}-\Delta u+P(x,u_t)=f(x,u) \qquad &\text{in $(0,\infty)\times\Omega$,}\\ u=0 &\text{on $(0,\infty)\times \Gamma_0$,}\\…

We consider the nonlinear half laplacian heat equation $$ u_t+(-\Delta)^{\frac{1}{2}} u-|u|^{p-1}u=0,\quad \mathbb{R}^n\times (0, T). $$ We prove that all blows-up are type I, provided that $n \leq 4$ and $ 1<p<p_{*} (n)$ where $ p_{*} (n)$…

We consider the $L^{2}$-critical quintic focusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) on ${\bf R}$. It is well known that $H^{1}$ solutions of the aforementioned equation blow up in finite time. In higher dimensions, for $H^{1}$…

We consider the semilinear wave equation $$\partial_t^2 u -\Delta u =f(u), \quad (x,t)\in \mathbb R^N\times [0,T),\qquad (1)$$ with $f(u)=|u|^{p-1}u\log^a (2+u^2)$, where $p>1$ and $a\in \mathbb R$, with subconformal power nonlinearity. We…

We consider the equation $$-\Delta u+u=Q_\varepsilon(x)|u|^{p-2}u,\qquad u\in H^1(\mathbb{R}^N),$$ where $Q_\varepsilon$ takes the value $1$ on each ball $B_\varepsilon(y)$, $y\in\mathbb{Z}^N$, and the value $-1$ elsewhere. We establish the…

We construct multiple solutions to the nonlocal Liouville equation \begin{equation} \label{eqk} \tag{L} (-\Delta)^{\frac{1}{2}} u = K(x) e^u \quad \mbox{ in } \mathbb{R}. \end{equation} More precisely, for $K$ of the form $K(x) =…

If $h$ is a nondecreasing real valued function and $0\leq q\leq 2$, we analyse the boundary behaviour of the gradient of any solution $u$ of $-\Delta u+h(u)+\abs {\nabla u}^q=f$ in a smooth N-dimensional domain $\Omega$ with the condition…

This paper is devoted to an integrable two-component Camassa-Holm system with cubic nonlinearity, which includes the cubic Camassa-Holm equation (also called the Fokas-Olver-Rosenau-Qiao equation) as a special case. The one peaked solitons…

We study dynamics near the threshold for blowup in the focusing nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation $u_{tt}-u_{xx} + u - |u|^{2\alpha} u =0$ on the line. Using mixed numerical and analytical methods we find that solutions starting from even…

The question of spontaneous apparition of singularity in the 3D incompressible Euler equations is one of the most important and challenging open problems in mathematical fluid mechanics. In this survey article we review some of recent…

We study the existence of solutions with multiple concentration to the following boundary value problem $$-\Delta u=\e^2 e^u-4\pi \sum_{p\in Z}\alpha_p \delta_{p}\;\hbox{in} \Omega,\quad u=0 \;\hbox{on}\partial \Omega,$$ where $\Omega$ is a…

In this article, we study the blow-up of the damped wave equation in the \textit{scale-invariant case} and in the presence of two nonlinearities. More precisely, we consider the following equation: $$u_{tt}-\Delta…

We describe the asymptotic behavior of positive solutions $u_\epsilon$ of the equation $-\Delta u + au = 3\,u^{5-\epsilon}$ in $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^3$ with a homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition. The function $a$ is assumed to be…

We consider the defocusing nonlinear wave equation $u_{tt}-\Delta u + |u|^p u=0$ in the energy-supercritical regime p>4. For even values of the power p, we show that blowup (or failure to scatter) must be accompanied by blowup of the…

This work is motivated by mathematical questions arising in differential equation models for autocatalytic reactions. In particular, this paper answers an open question posed by Guckenheimer and Scheper [SIAM J. Appl. Dyn. Syst. 10-1…

For a bounded set $\Omega \subset \mathbb R^N$ and a perturbation $V \in C^1(\overline{\Omega})$, we analyze the concentration behavior of a blow-up sequence of positive solutions to \[ -\Delta u_\epsilon + \epsilon V = N(N-2)…