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We consider the initial-boundary value problem for a nonlinear parabolic equation in the one-dimensional interval. This problem is motivated by a mathematical model for moisture transport in porous media. We establish the uniqueness of weak…
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An inverse obstacle problem for the wave equation in a two layered medium is considered. It is assumed that the unknown obstacle is penetrable and embedded in the lower half-space. The wave as a solution of the wave equation is generated by…
The global equi-continuity estimate on Lp-viscosity solutions of bilateral obstacle problems with unbounded ingredients is established when obstacles are merely continuous. The existence of Lp-viscosity solutions is established via an…
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In this article, we adapt the definition of viscosity solutions to the obstacle problem for fully nonlinear path-dependent PDEs with data uniformly continuous in $(t,\omega)$, and generator Lipschitz continuous in $(y,z,\gamma)$. We prove…
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We introduce a novel monotone discretization method for addressing obstacle problems involving the integral fractional Laplacian with homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions over bounded Lipschitz domains. This problem is prevalent in…
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In this paper we introduce a constructive approach to study well-posedness of solutions to stochastic fluid-structure interaction with stochastic noise. We focus on a benchmark problem in stochastic fluid-structure interaction, and prove…
We prove the existence and uniqueness of solution of the obstacle problem for quasilinear Stochastic PDEs with non-homogeneous second order operator. Our method is based on analytical technics coming from the parabolic potential theory. The…
We adapt the Stochastic Perron's method in Bayraktar and Sirbu (ArXiv: 1103.0538) to the case of double obstacle problems associated to Dynkin games. We construct, symmetrically, a viscosity sub-solution which dominates the upper value of…
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We consider the evolution of fronts by mean curvature in the presence of obstacles. We construct a weak solution to the flow by means of a variational method, corresponding to an implicit time-discretization scheme. Assuming the regularity…