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We study the large time behavior of the solutions to a two phase extension of the porous medium equation, which models the so-called seawater intrusion problem. The goal is to identify the self-similar solutions that correspond to steady…
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This paper proves existence and stability results of solitary-wave solutions to coupled nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations with power-type nonlinearities arising in several models of modern physics. The existence of solitary waves is…