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The 2d Boussinesq equations model large scale atmospheric and oceanic flows. Whether its solutions develop a singularity in finite-time remains a classical open problem in mathematical fluid dynamics. In this work, blowup from smooth…

We construct a periodic solution to the semilinear heat equation with power nonlinearity, in one space dimension, which blows up in finite time $T$ only at one blow-up point. We also give a sharp description of its blow-up profile. The…

Consider a $1$D simple small-amplitude solution $(\rho_{(bkg)}, v^1_{(bkg)})$ to the isentropic compressible Euler equations which has smooth initial data, coincides with a constant state outside a compact set, and forms a shock in finite…

In this paper, we study the generalized Proudman-Johnson equation posed on the torus. In the critical regime where the parameter $a$ is close to and slightly greater than 1, we establish finite time blow-up of smooth solutions to the…

In this paper, we consider the heat flow for Yang-Mills connections on $\mathbb{R}^5 \times SO(5)$. In the $SO(5)-$equivariant setting, the Yang-Mills heat equation reduces to a single semilinear reaction-diffusion equation for which an…

This is Part II of our paper in which we prove finite time blowup of the 2D Boussinesq and 3D axisymmetric Euler equations with smooth initial data of finite energy and boundary. In Part I of our paper [ChenHou2023a], we establish an…

We study the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations in the presence of the axisymmetric linear strain, where the strain rate depends on time in a specific manner. It is known that the system admits solutions which blow up in finite time…

We prove that the Burgers flow with a steady external forcing has a unique steady state which is a sink. Although this flow cannot be linearized through Cole-Hopf transforms, we prove that it has a convergent Koopman Modes decomposition.…

In this work, we consider the following focusing inhomogeneous nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation \begin{align*} i\partial_t u+\Delta u +|x|^{-b}|u|^p u=0,\quad (t, x)\in\mathbb{R}\times\mathbb{R}^N \end{align*} with $0<b<\mbox{min}\{2, N\}$…

We present a novel method of analysis and prove finite time asymptotically self-similar blowup of the De Gregorio model \cite{DG90,DG96} for some smooth initial data on the real line with compact support. We also prove self-similar blowup…

Katz and Pavlovic recently proposed a dyadic model of the Euler equations for which they proved finite time blow-up in the $H^{3/2+\epsilon}$ Sobolev norm. It is shown that their model can be reduced to the dyadic inviscid Burgers equation…

It is still not known whether a solution to the incompressible Euler equation, endowed with a smooth initial value, can blow-up in finite time. In [{\em Comm. Math. Phys.}, 378:557--568, 2020] it has been shown that, if it exists, such a…

The phenomenon of finite time blow-up in hydrodynamic partial differential equations is central in analysis and mathematical physics. While numerical studies have guided theoretical breakthroughs, it is challenging to determine if the…

We consider the semilinear heat equation $$u_t-\Delta u=f(u) $$ for a large class of non scale invariant nonlinearities of the form $f(u)=u^pL(u)$, where $p>1$ is Sobolev subcritical and $L$ is a slowly varying function (which includes for…

We consider the stochastic heat equation with multiplicative white noise: $\partial_t u =\partial_x^2u + b(u) +\sigma(u) \dot W$, both on $[0,1]$ and $\mathbf{R}$. In the case of $[0,1]$ we show that the finite Osgood criterion on $b$ is a…

We consider the semilinear heat equation \begin{eqnarray*} \partial_t u = \Delta u + |u|^{p-1} u \ln ^{\alpha}( u^2 +2), \end{eqnarray*} in the whole space $\mathbb{R}^n$, where $p > 1$ and $ \alpha \in \mathbb{R}$. Unlike the standard case…

We consider the energy supercritical harmonic heat flow from $\mathbb{R}^d$ into the $d$-sphere $\mathbb{S}^d$ with $d \geq 7$. Under an additional assumption of 1-corotational symmetry, the problem reduces to the one dimensional semilinear…

The main aim of the current work is the study of the conditions under which (finite-time) blow-up of a non-local stochastic parabolic problem occurs. We first establish the existence and uniqueness of the local-in-time weak solution for…

For the 3d cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation, which has critical (scaling) norms $L^3$ and $\dot H^{1/2}$, we first prove a result establishing sufficient conditions for global existence and sufficient conditions for finite-time…

We exhibit a stable finite time blow up regime for the 1-corotational energy critical harmonic heat flow from $\Bbb R^2$ into a smooth compact revolution surface of $\Bbb R^3$ which reduces to the semilinear parabolic problem $$\partial_t u…