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We study the forward self-similar solutions to the $2$D hypodissipative Navier-Stokes equation with fractional diffusion $(-\Delta)^\alpha$ for $\frac{1}{2}<\alpha<1$. We first show that for arbitrarily large $(1-2\alpha)$-homogeneous…

A well-known consequence of the Pr{\'e}kopa-Leindler inequality is the preservation of logconcavity by the heat semigroup. Unfortunately, this property does not hold for more general semigroups. In this paper, we exhibit a slightly weaker…

We study the stability of partitions involving two or more phases in convex domains under the assumption of at most two-phase contact, thus excluding in particular triple junctions. We present a detailed derivation of the second variation…

This paper is devoted to the study of the stability and stabilizability of heat equation in non-cylindrical domain. The interesting thing is that there is a class of initial values such that the system is no longer exponentially stable. The…

Dual phase lag equation for heat conduction is analyzed from the point of view of non-equilibrium thermodynamics. Its first order Taylor series expansion is consistent with the second law as long as the two relaxation times are not…

In this paper, some global existence and uniform asymptotic stability results for fractional functional differential equations are proved. It is worthy mentioning that when $\alpha=1$ the initial value problem (1.1) reduces to a classical…

We prove that the Cauchy problem associated with the one dimensional quadratic (fractional) heat equation: $u_t=D_x^{2\alpha} u \mp u^2,\; t\in (0,T),\; x\in \R$ or $ \T $, with $ 0<\alpha\le 1 $ is well-posed in $ H^s $ for $ s\ge…

The initial value problem for the conservation law $\partial_t u+(-\Delta)^{\alpha/2}u+\nabla \cdot f(u)=0$ is studied for $\alpha\in (1,2)$ and under natural polynomial growth conditions imposed on the nonlinearity. We find the asymptotic…

The existence of smooth but nowhere analytic functions is well-known (du Bois-Reymond, Math. Ann., 21(1):109-117, 1883). However, smooth solutions to the heat equation are usually analytic in the space variable. It is also well-known…

In this paper we describe invariant geometrical ~structures in the phase space of the Swift-Hohenberg equation in a neighborhood of its periodic stationary states. We show that in spite of the fact that these states are only marginally…

We prove two stability results for the scale invariant solutions of the nonlinear heat equation $\partial_t u=\Delta u - |u|^{p-1}u$ with $1<p<1+{2\over n}$, $n$ being the spatial dimension. The first result is that a small perturbation of…

The purpose of this paper is to establish the well-posedness of the stochastic Stefan problem on moving hypersurfaces. Through a specially designed transformation, it turns out we need to solve stochastic partial differential equations on a…

We introduce unconditionally stable finite element approximations for a phase field model for solidification, which take highly anisotropic surface energy and kinetic effects into account. We hence approximate Stefan problems with…

In this article, we study the existence and uniqueness of a weak solution to the fractional single-phase lag heat equation. This model contains the terms $\cal{D}_t^\alpha(u_t)$ and $\cal{D}_t^\alpha u $ (with $\alpha \in(0,1)$), where…

We substantially improve in two scenarios the current state-of-the-art modulus of continuity for weak solutions to the $N$-dimensional, two-phase Stefan problem featuring a $p-$degenerate diffusion: for $p=N\geq 3$, we sharpen it to $$…

We prove the global-time existence of weak solutions to the supercooled Stefan problem. Our result holds in general space dimensions and with a general class of initial data. In addition, our solution is maximal in the sense of a certain…

We consider a class of diffusion equations with the Caputo time-fractional derivative $\partial_t^\alpha u=L u$ subject to the homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. Here, we consider a fractional order $0<\alpha < 1$ and a second-order…

We prove that no concavity properties are preserved by the Dirichlet heat flow in a totally convex domain of a Riemannian manifold unless the sectional curvature vanishes everywhere on the domain.

In this paper we consider the one-phase Stefan problem with surface tension, set in a two-dimensional strip-like geometry, with periodic boundary conditions respect to the horizontal direction $x_1\in\mathbb{T}$. We prove that the system is…

We consider time fractional stochastic heat type equation $$\partial^\beta_tu(t,x)=-\nu(-\Delta)^{\alpha/2} u_t(x)+I^{1-\beta}_t[\sigma(u)\stackrel{\cdot}{W}(t,x)]$$ in $(d+1)$ dimensions, where $\nu>0$, $\beta\in (0,1)$, $\alpha\in (0,2]$,…