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We analyze the blowup behaviour of solutions to the focusing nonlinear Klein--Gordon equation in spatial dimensions $d\geq 2$. We obtain upper bounds on the blowup rate, both globally in space and in light cones. The results are sharp in…
We consider the focusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation in three spatial dimensions with powers close to three and prove the existence of a self-similar solution. This generalizes a previous result on the cubic case and shows that…
We consider the $L^2$ critical inhomogeneous nonlinear Schr\"odinger (INLS) equation in $\mathbb{R}^N$ $$ i \partial_t u +\Delta u +|x|^{-b} |u|^{\frac{4-2b}{N}}u = 0, $$ where $N\geq 1$ and $0<b<2$. We prove that if $u_0\in…
We consider the finite-time blow-up dynamics of solutions to the self-dual Chern-Simons-Schr\"odinger (CSS) equation (also referred to as the Jackiw-Pi model) near the radial soliton $Q$ with the least $L^{2}$-norm (ground state). While a…
We consider a sequence of blowup solutions of a two dimensional, second order elliptic equation with exponential nonlinearity and singular data. This equation has a rich background in physics and geometry. In a work of…
We consider the following five-dimensional heat equation with critical boundary condition \begin{equation*} \partial_t u=\Delta u \mbox{ \ in \ } \mathbb{R}_+^5\times (0,T) , \quad -\partial_{x_5}u =|u|^\frac{2}{3}u \mbox{ \ on \ } \pp…
We consider the semilinear wave equation with power nonlinearity in one space dimension. Given a blow-up solution with a characteristic point, we refine the blow-up behavior first derived by Merle and Zaag. We also refine the geometry of…
We consider the Zakharov-Kutznesov (ZK) equation posed in $\mathbb R^d$, with $d=2$ and $3$. Both equations are globally well-posed in $L^2(\mathbb R^d)$. In this paper, we prove local energy decay of global solutions: if $u(t)$ is a…
We consider the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with $L^{2}$-supercritical and $H^{1}$-subcritical power type nonlinearity. Duyckaerts and Roudenko and Campos, Farah, and Roudenko studied the global dynamics of the solutions with same…
We present novel self-similar finite-time blowup scenarios for the 1D Hou--Luo model. We numerically demonstrate that solutions that initially satisfy certain derivative degeneracy condition can develop asymptotically self-similar…
Langmuir waves take place in a quasi-neutral plasma and are modeled by the Zakharov system. The phenomenon of collapse, described by blowing up solutions plays a central role in their dynamics. We present in this article a review of the…
We study the linear Zakharov--Kuznetsov equation with periodic boundary conditions. Employing some tools from the nonharmonic Fourier series we obtain several internal observability theorems. Then we prove various exact controllability and…
Motivated by the introduction of the Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation as a higher dimensional generalization of the Korteweg-de Vries equation, in this paper we introduce the modified Zakharov-Kuznetsov (mZK) equation as a 2-dimensional…
We prove, for the energy critcal, focusing NLW, that for Cauchy data (u_0, u_1) whose energy is smaller than that of (W,0), where W is the well-known radial positive solution to the corresponding ellipyic equation, the following dichotomy…
This paper is concerned with blow-up solutions of the 4-dimensional energy critical heat equation $u_t=\Delta u + u^3$. Our main result is to show that the existence of type II blowup solutions, and…
This paper is concerned with the Cauchy problem for an energy-supercritical nonlinear wave equation in odd space dimensions that arises in equivariant Yang-Mills theory. In each dimension, there is a self-similar finite-time blowup solution…
We study singularity formation for the focusing quadratic wave equation in the energy supercritical case, i.e., for $d \geq 7$. We find in closed form a new, non-trivial, radial, self-similar blowup solution $u^*$ which exists for all $d…
In this paper, we study the $H^s$-stability of the log-log blowup regime (which has been completely described in a series of recent works by Merle and Raphael) for the focusing mass-critical nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations…
We study stable blow-up dynamics in the $L^2$-critical nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation in high dimensions. First, we show that in dimensions $d=4$ to $d=12$ generic blow-up behavior confirms the "log-log" regime in our numerical…
We provide a detailed numerical study of various issues pertaining to the dynamics of the Burgers equation perturbed by a weak dispersive term: blow-up in finite time versus global existence, nature of the blow-up, existence for "long"…