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This work is devoted to the development and analysis of a linearization algorithm for microscopic elliptic equations, with scaled degenerate production, posed in a perforated medium and constrained by the homogeneous Neumann-Dirichlet…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-11 Anh-Khoa Vo , Ekeoma Rowland Ijioma , Nhu-Ngoc Nguyen

We study a nonlinear, degenerate cross-diffusion model which involves two densities with two different drift velocities. A general framework is introduced based on its gradient flow structure in Wasserstein space to derive a notion of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-20 Inwon Kim , Alpár R. Mészáros

Motivated by applications to fluid dynamics, we study rough differential equations (RDEs) and rough partial differential equations (RPDEs) with non-Lipschitz drifts. We prove well-posedness and existence of a flow for RDEs with Osgood…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-18 Lucio Galeati , James-Michael Leahy , Torstein Nilssen

We consider a phase field model for the flow of two partly miscible incompressible, viscous fluids of Non-Newtonian (power law) type. In the model it is assumed that the densities of the fluids are equal. We prove existence of weak…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-02-14 Helmut Abels , Lars Diening , Yutaka Terasawa

According to DiPerna-Lions theory, velocity fields with weak derivatives in $L^p$ spaces possess weakly regular flows. When a velocity field is perturbed by a white noise, the corresponding (stochastic) flow is far more regular in spatial…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-05-23 Fraydoun Rezakhanlou

Solutions to a class of conservation laws with discontinuous flux are constructed relying on the Crandall-Liggett theory of nonlinear contractive semigroups~\cite{CL}. In particular, the paper studies the existence of backward Euler…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-28 Graziano Guerra , Wen Shen

We prove a contraction in $L^1$ property for the solutions of a nonlinear reaction--diffusion system whose special cases include intercellular transport as well as reversible chemical reactions. Assuming the existence of stationary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-08-05 M. Chipot , D. Hilhorst , D. Kinderlehrer , M. Olech

We employ the Lorentz reciprocal theorem to derive a closed-form expression for the pressure drop reduction due to the coupling between shear-thinning fluid flow and a weakly deformable channel wall in terms of the shear rate and the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-25 Shrihari D. Pande , Ivan C. Christov

A mathematical model describing motion of an inhomogeneous incompressible fluid in a Hele-Shaw cell is considered. Linear stability analysis of shear flow class is provided. The role of inertia, linear friction and impermeable boundaries in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-01-28 Alexander Chesnokov , Irina Stepanova

In this work, we use the JKO scheme to approximate a general class of diffusion problems generated by Darcy's law. Although the scheme is now classical, if the energy density is spatially inhomogeneous or irregular, many standard methods…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-06-18 Matt Jacobs , Inwon Kim , Jiajun Tong

We show the existence and uniqueness as well as boundedness of weak solutions to linear elliptic equations with $L^2$-drifts of negative divergence and singular zero-order terms which are positive. Our main target is to show the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-26 Haesung Lee

We rigorously prove the convergence of appropriately scaled solutions of the 2D Hele-Shaw moving boundary problem with surface tension in the limit of thin threads to the solution of the formally corresponding Thin Film equation. The proof…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-07-16 Bogdan-Vasile Matioc , Georg Prokert

Motivated by the variety of applications in which nematic Hele-Shaw flow occurs, a theoretical model for Hele-Shaw flow of a nematic liquid crystal is formulated and analysed. We derive the thin-film Ericksen-Leslie equations that govern…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-09-10 Joseph R. L. Cousins , Nigel J. Mottram , Stephen K. Wilson

This paper is devoted to analyse the Dirichlet problem for a nonlinear elliptic equation involving the $1$--Laplacian and a total variation term, that is, the inhomogeneous case of the equation arising in the level set formulation of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-25 M. Latorre , S. Segura de León

A Maxwell-Stefan system for fluid mixtures with driving forces depending on Cahn-Hilliard-type chemical potentials is analyzed. The corresponding parabolic cross-diffusion equations contain fourth-order derivatives and are considered in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-16 Xiaokai Huo , Ansgar Jüngel , Athanasios E. Tzavaras

In Hele-Shaw flows, boundaries between fluids develop unstable viscous fingers. At vanishing surface tension, the fingers further evolve to cusp-like singularities. We show that the problem admits a {\it weak solution} where shock fronts…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-07-20 Seung-Yeop Lee , Razvan Teodorescu , Paul Wiegmann

We study a class of semilinear diffusion equations on infinite, connected, weighted graphs, focusing on two types of nonlinearities: monotone decreasing and Lipschitz continuous. Under minimal structural assumptions on the graph, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Elvise Berchio , Davide Bianchi , Alberto G. Setti , Maria Vallarino

We obtain new $L^1$ contraction results for bounded entropy solutions of Cauchy problems for degenerate parabolic equations. The equations we consider have possibly strongly degenerate local or non-local diffusion terms. As opposed to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-06 J. Endal , E. R. Jakobsen

We show the $L^2$-Wasserstein contraction for the transition kernel of a discretised diffusion process, under a contractivity at infinity condition on the drift and a sufficiently high diffusivity requirement. This extends recent results…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-10-25 Linshan Liu , Mateusz B. Majka , Pierre Monmarché

Nowadays a vast literature is available on the Hele-Shaw or incompressible limit for nonlinear degenerate diffusion equations. This problem has attracted a lot of attention due to its applications to tissue growth and crowd motion modelling…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Noemi David , Alpár R. Mészáros , Filippo Santambrogio