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We give a survey at an introductory level of old and recent results in the study of critical points of solutions of elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations. To keep the presentation simple, we mainly consider four exemplary…
We discuss the initial boundary value problem for a heat equation in a domain surrounded by a layer. The main features of this problem are twofold: on one hand, the layer is thin compared to the scale of the domain, and on the other hand,…
We investigate the realization of a myriad of general local and nonlocal inhomogeneous elliptic and parabolic boundary value problems over classes of irregular regions. We present a unified approach in which either local or nonlocal…
This paper aims at proving the local boundedness and continuity of solutions of the heat equation in the context of Dirichlet spaces under some rather weak additional assumptions. We consider symmetric local regular Dirichlet forms which…
We prove the unique solvability for the Poisson and heat equations in non-smooth domains $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^d$ in weighted Sobolev spaces. The zero Dirichlet boundary condition is considered, and domains are merely assumed to admit…
A semi-explicit formula of solution to the boundary layer system for thermal layer derived from the compressible Navier-Stokes equations with the non-slip boundary condition when the viscosity coefficients vanish is given, in particular in…
In this paper, we investigate boundary estimates for the Dirichlet problem for a class of fully nonlinear elliptic equations with general boundary conditions, including nonzero boundary conditions. Given specific structural conditions on…
In the paper, we investigate the nonlinear thermoelasticity model in two- and three-dimensional convex and bounded domains. We propose new boundary conditions for the displacement. These conditions are not usual in thermoelasticity.…
We study a three-dimensional Boussinesq-type temperature-velocity system on a bounded smooth domain $\mathcal D\subset\mathbb R^3$, where the velocity $u^\varepsilon$ solves the Navier-Stokes equations and the temperature…
Let $M$ be a Riemannian manifold and $\Omega$ a smooth domain of $M$. We study the following heat diffusion problem: assume that the initial temperature is equal to $1$, uniformly on $\Omega$, and is $0$ on its complement. Heat will then…
The torsion function of a convex planar domain has convex level sets, but explicit formulae are known only for rectangles and ellipses. Here we study the torsion function on convex planar domains of high eccentricity. We obtain an…
We study Rayleigh-Benard convection in the high-Rayleigh-number and high-Prandtl-number regime, i.e., we consider a fluid in a container that is exposed to strong heating of the bottom and cooling of the top plate in the absence of inertia…
We study the initial boundary value problem for a heat equation in a domain containing a thin layer. The thermal conductivity of the layer is drastically different from that of the bulk of the domain; moreover, the layer is anisotropic and…
Let $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^2$ be a bounded, convex domain and let $-\Delta \phi_1 = \mu_1 \phi_1$ be the first nontrivial Laplacian eigenfunction with Neumann boundary conditions. The Hot Spots conjecture claims that the maximum and…
We study the hot spots conjecture for domains in the Gaussian space $(\mathbb{R}^n, (2\pi)^{-n/2} e^{-|x|^2/2} dx)$ for $n \ge 2$. Given a bounded domain $\Omega$ with a piecewise smooth boundary, we consider the first nontrivial…
We obtain a general sufficient condition on the geometry of possibly singular planar domains that guarantees global uniqueness for any weak solution to the Euler equations on them whose vorticity is bounded and initially constant near the…
The aim of this article is to discuss the estimation of the diffusivity coefficient of a homogeneous metal rod from temperature values at a fixed point in the bar for different time instants. The time-dependent problem of heat conduction is…
We consider the energy of the torsion problem with Robin boundary conditions in the case where the solution is not a minimizer. Its dependence on the volume of the domain and the surface area of the boundary is discussed. In contrast to the…
We obtain monotonicity and convexity results for the heat content of domains in Riemannian manifolds and in Euclidean space subject to various initial temperature conditions. We introduce the notion of a strictly decreasing temperature set,…
We consider the heat equation in a smooth bounded convex domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^2$ with nonlinear Neumann boundary condition $\partial_\nu u = \lambda (u - u^3)$. Stable non-constant stationary solutions do not exist when…