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While the global boundary control of nonlinear wave equations that exhibit blow-up is generally impossible, we show on a typical example, motivated by laser breakdown, that it is possible to control solutions with small data so that they…

Blow up in a one-dimensional semilinear heat equation is studied using a combination of numerical and analytical tools. The focus is on problems periodic in the space variable and starting out from a nearly flat, positive initial condition.…

In this paper we consider the blow-up of solutions to a weakly coupled system of semilinear damped wave equations in the scattering case with nonlinearities of mixed type, namely, in one equation a power nonlinearity and in the other a…

We consider the 1D nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) with focusing \emph{point nonlinearity}, $$i\partial_t\psi + \partial_x^2\psi + \delta|\psi|^{p-1}\psi = 0$$ where $\delta=\delta(x)$ is the delta function supported at the origin.…

In this paper, explicit method of constructing approximations (the Triangle Entropy Method) is developed for nonequilibrium problems. This method enables one to treat any complicated nonlinear functionals that fit best the physics of a…

We consider the 1D cubic NLS on $\mathbb R$ and prove a blow-up result for functions that are of borderline regularity, i.e. $H^s$ for any $s<-\frac 12$ for the Sobolev scale and $\mathcal F L^\infty$ for the Fourier-Lebesgue scale. This is…

We consider the problem of prescribing the scalar curvature and the boundary mean curvature of the standard half three sphere, by deforming conformally its standard metric. Using blow up analysis techniques and minimax arguments, we prove…

In our recent precious work, we established the finite time blow up result and upper bound of lifespan estimate to the singular Cauchy problem of semilinear Euler-Poisson-Darboux equation in R^n with subcritical power type nonlinearity. By…

We consider a non-local Liouville equation corresponding to the prescription of the geodesic curvature on the circle. We build a family of solutions which blow up at a critical point of the harmonic extension of the prescribed curvature…

We consider in this paper a perturbation of the standard semilinear heat equation by a term involving the space derivative and a non-local term. We prove the existence of a blow-up solution, and give its blow-up profile. Our proof relies on…

For a smooth bounded domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb R^3$ and smooth functions $a$ and $V$, we consider the asymptotic behavior of a sequence of positive solutions $u_\epsilon$ to $-\Delta u_\epsilon + (a+\epsilon V) u_\epsilon =…

The existence of weak solutions and upper bounds for the blow-up time for time-discrete parabolic-elliptic Keller-Segel models for chemotaxis in the two-dimensional whole space are proved. For various time discretizations, including the…

For dimensions $n\geq8$, we are concerned with the quotient functional of the biharmonic Br\'{e}zis-Nirenberg problem under the Navier boundary condition $$ S(\varepsilon V):=\inf_{0\not\equiv u\in H^2(\Omega)\cap…

We study the Cauchy problem for a system of two coupled nonlinear focusing Schroedinger equations arising in nonlinear optics. We discuss when the solutions are global in time or blow-up in finite time. Some results, in dependence of the…

We study sets of finite perimeter in Wiener space, and prove that at almost every point (with respect to the perimeter measure) a set of finite perimeter blows-up to a halfspace.

This paper estimates the blow-up time for the heat equation $u_t=\Delta u$ with a local nonlinear Neumann boundary condition: The normal derivative $\partial u/\partial n=u^{q}$ on $\Gamma_{1}$, one piece of the boundary, while on the rest…

We introduce a straightforward method to analyze the blow-up of systems of ordinary differential inequalities, and apply it to study the blow- up of solutions to a weakly coupled system of semilinear heat equations. We prove that the…

We investigate in this article the long-time behaviour of the solutions to the energy-dependant, spatially-homogeneous, inelastic Boltzmann equation for hard spheres. This model describes a diluted gas composed of hard spheres under…

We consider the following exponential reaction-diffusion equation involving a nonlinear gradient term: $$\partial_t U = \Delta U + \alpha|\nabla U|^2 + e^U,\quad (x, t)\in\mathbb{R}^N\times[0,T), \quad \alpha > -1.$$ We construct for this…

We study the blow up solutions of a semilinear reaction diffusion system coupled in both equations and boundary conditions. The main purpose is to understand how the reaction terms and the absorption terms affect the blow-up properties. We…