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The evolution equation derived by Xiang (SIAM J. Appl. Math. 63:241--258, 2002) to describe vicinal surfaces in heteroepitaxial growth is $$ h_t=-\left[ H(h_x)+\left(h_x^{-1}+h_x \right) h_{xx}\right]_{xx}, $$ where $h$ denotes the surface…
In the present paper, we propose the investigation of variable-exponent, degenerate/singular elliptic equations in non-divergence form. This current endeavor parallels the by now well established theory of functionals satisfying nonstandard…
In this paper we prove the global existence of a strong solution to the initial boundary value problem for the exponential partial differential equation $\partial_tu-\Delta e^{-\Delta u}+e^{-\Delta u}-1=0$. The equation was proposed as a…
We consider an initial-boundary value problem for the 4D Navier-Stokes equations posed on bounded smooth domains. We prove the existence and uniqiueness of regular solutions as well as their exponential decay and additional regularity…
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 =…
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In this paper we establish three global in time results for two fourth order nonlinear parabolic equations. The first of such equations involves the Hessian and appears in epitaxial growth. For such equation we give conditions ensuring the…
We introduce a new equation describing epitaxial growth processes. This equation is derived from a simple variational geometric principle and it has a straightforward interpretation in terms of continuum and microscopic physics. It is also…
We consider a wide class of fully nonlinear integro-differential equations that degenerate when the gradient of the solution vanishes. By using compactness and perturbation arguments, we give a complete characterization of the regularity of…
In this article we study the existence of solutions to a fourth-order nonlinear PDE related to crystal surface growth. The key difficulty in the equations comes from the mobility matrix, which depends on the gradient of the solution. When…
In this article we prove the global existence of a unique strong solution to the initial boundary-value problem for a fourth-order exponential PDE. The equation we study was originally proposed to study the evolution of crystal surfaces,…
We investigate a model for the accretive growth of an elastic solid. The reference configuration of the body is accreted in its normal direction, with space- and deformation-dependent accretion rate. The time-dependent reference…
In this work we consider $$ w_t=[(w_{hh}+c_0)^{-3}]_{hh},\qquad w(0)=w^0, $$ which is derived from a thin film equation for epitaxial growth on vicinal surface. We formulate the problem as the gradient flow of a suitably-defined convex…
We investigate the regularity of the solutions for a class of degenerate/singular fully nonlinear nonlocal equations. In the degenerate scenario, we establish that there exists at least one viscosity solution of class $C_{loc}^{1, \alpha}$,…
We consider a nonlocal nonlinear model with fractional diffusion motivated by studies of electroconvection phenomena in incompressible viscous fluids. We address the global well-posedness, global regularity and long time dynamics of the…
In this paper we establish local and global existence and uniqueness of solutions for general nonlinear evolution equations with coefficients satisfying some local monotonicity and generalized coercivity conditions. An analogous result is…
We investigate the regularity of the viscosity solutions to a class of degenerate/singular fully nonlinear elliptic equations with Hamiltonian terms. To overcome the difficulty caused by the simultaneous presence of the general…
We consider a partial differential equation that arises in the coarse-grained description of epitaxial growth processes. This is a parabolic equation whose evolution is governed by the competition between the determinant of the Hessian…
This is a simplification of our prior work on the existence theory for the Rosseland-type equations. Inspired by the Rosseland equation in the conduction-radiation coupled heat transfer, we use the locally arbitrary growth conditions…