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We consider a steady-state heat conduction problem in a multidimensional bounded domain Omega for the Poisson equation with constant internal energy g and mixed boundary conditions given by a constant temperature b in the portion Gamma_1 of…
Despite considerable developments in the literature of the past decades, a standing open problem in the analysis of continuum mechanics appears to consist of determining how far the prototypical model for small-strain thermoviscoelastic…
For a heat equation with Robin's boundary conditions which depends on a parameter $\alpha>0$, we prove that its unique weak solution $\rho^\alpha$ converges, when $\alpha$ goes to zero or to infinity, to the unique weak solution of the heat…
The thermal transport properties of a two dimensional Fermi gas are explored, for the full range of temperatures and densities. The heat flux is established by solving the Uehling-Uhlebeck equation using a relaxation approximation given by…
We study the heat equation on a half-space or on an exterior domain with a linear dynamical boundary condition. Our main aim is to establish the rate of convergence to solutions of the Laplace equation with the same dynamical boundary…
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In this paper, we establish gradient continuity for solutions to \[ (\partial_t - \operatorname{div}(A(x) \nabla u))^s =f,\ s \in (1/2, 1), \] when $f$ belongs to the scaling critical function space $L(\frac{n+2}{2s-1}, 1)$. Our main…
The partial differential equations describing compressible fluid flows can be notoriously difficult to resolve on a pragmatic scale and often require the use of high performance computing systems and/or accelerators. However, these systems…
We investigate the asymptotic behavior of solutions to a semilinear heat equation with homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions. It was recently shown that the nontrivial kernel of the linear part leads to the coexistence of fast solutions…
The variational heat equation is a nonlinear, parabolic equation not in divergence form that arises as a model for the dynamics of the director field in a nematic liquid crystal. We present a finite difference scheme for a transformed,…
In this paper, we focus on the homogenization process of the non-local elliptic boundary value problem $$\mathcal{L}_\varepsilon^s u_\varepsilon =(-\nabla\cdot (A_\varepsilon(x)\nabla))^{s}u_\varepsilon=f \mbox{ in } \mathcal O, $$ with…
We study the general nonlinear diffusion equation $u_t=\nabla\cdot (u^{m-1}\nabla (-\Delta)^{-s}u)$ that describes a flow through a porous medium which is driven by a nonlocal pressure. We consider constant parameters $m>1$ and $0<s<1$, we…
In [Lacave, IHP, ana, to appear (2008)] the author considered the two dimensional Euler equations in the exterior of a thin obstacle shrinking to a curve and determined the limit velocity. In the present work, we consider the same problem…
The large time behavior of non-negative solutions to the viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equation $u_t - \Delta u + |\nabla u|^q = 0$ in the whole space $R^N$ is investigated for the critical exponent $q = (N+2)/(N+1)$. Convergence towards a…
We consider the homogenization of a semilinear heat equation with vanishing viscosity and with oscillating positive potential depending on $u/\varepsilon$. According to the rate between the frequency of oscillations in the potential and the…
This paper is concerned with a predator-prey model in $N$-dimensional spaces ($N=1, 2, 3$), given by \begin{align*}\left\{\begin{aligned} &\frac{\partial u}{\partial t}=\Delta u-\chi\nabla\cdot(u\nabla v),\\ &\frac{\partial v}{\partial…
This paper presents asymptotic formulas in the case of the following two problems for the {\it Pucci's extremal operators} $\mathcal{M}^\pm$. It is considered the solution $u^\varepsilon(x)$ of $-\varepsilon^2 \mathcal{M}^\pm\left(\nabla ^2…
We consider periodic homogenization of boundary value problems for second-order semilinear elliptic systems in 2D of the type $$ \partial_{x_i}\left(a_{ij}^{\alpha…
We consider an homogenization problem for the second order elliptic equation $-\operatorname{div}\left(a(./\varepsilon) \nabla u^{\varepsilon} \right)=f$ when the coefficient $a$ is almost translation-invariant at infinity and models a…