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A nonlinear parabolic equation of the fourth order is analyzed. The equation is characterized by a mobility coefficient that degenerates at 0. Existence of at least one weak solution is proved by using a regularization procedure and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-09-17 Giulio Schimperna , Sergey Zelik

Chemical and biochemical reactions can exhibit surprisingly different behaviours, ranging from multiple steady-state solutions to oscillatory solutions and chaotic behaviours. These types of systems are often modelled by a system of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Erika Hausenblas , Michael A. Högele , Tesfalem A. Tegegn

This manuscript explores a variational quantum formulation for nonlinear elasticity problems arising from hyperelastic material models, targeting near term noisy intermediate scale quantum (NISQ) devices. The approach leverages the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Uditnarayan Kouskiya , Caglar Oskay

We analyse the dynamics of a weakly elastic spherical particle translating parallel to a rigid wall in a quiescent Newtonian fluid in the Stokes limit. The particle motion is constrained parallel to the wall by applying a point force and a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-14 Shashikant Verma , Dinesh B , Navaneeth K Marath

In this article we consider an optimization problem where the objective function is evaluated at the fixed-point of a contraction mapping parameterized by a control variable, and optimization takes place over this control variable. Since…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-04 Thomas Flynn

Self-propelled particles can navigate complex environments, including viscous fluid interfaces with curved geometries. In this work, we study the emergent dynamics of a suspension of self-propelled particles confined to a stationary curved…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-17 Yuzhu Chen , Vishal P. Patil , David Saintillan

We consider an ensemble of mass collisionless particles, which interact mutually either by an attraction of Newton's law of gravitation or by an electrostatic repulsion of Coulomb's law, under a background downward gravity in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-25 Chanwoo Kim

Variational solutions of the Boltzmann equation usually rely on the concept of linear response. We extend the variational approach for tight-binding models at high entropies to a regime far beyond linear response. We analyze both weakly…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-22 Stephan Mandt

We study a stationary 3D/2D fluid-structure interaction problem between an elastic structure described by the linear plate equation and a fluid described by the compressible Navier-Stokes equations with hard-sphere pressure and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Boris Muha , Šárka Nečasová , Milan Pokorný , Srđan Trifunović , Justin T. Webster

We investigate exact travelling wave solutions of higher order nonlinear Schrodinger equation in the absence of third order dispersion, which exhibit non-trivial self phase modulation. It is shown that, the corresponding dynamical equation,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2011-06-01 Anshul Saini , Vivek M. Vyas , S. N. Pandey , T. Solomon Raju , Prasanta K. Panigrahi

We consider a continuum model of active viscoelastic matter, whereby an active nematic liquid-crystal is coupled to a minimal model of polymer dynamics with a viscoelastic relaxation time $\tau_C$. To explore the resulting interplay between…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-03-30 E. J. Hemingway , M. E. Cates , S. M. Fielding

In this paper, we study the solvability of a Cauchy- Dirichlet problem for nonlinear parabolic equation with non standard growths and nonlocal terms. We show the existence of weak solutions of the considered problem under more general…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-01 Ugur Sert , Eylem Ozturk

The quasi-coherent effects in two-dimensional incompressible turbulence are analyzed starting from the test particle trajectories. They can acquire coherent aspects when the stochastic potential has slow time variation and the motion is not…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 M. Vlad , F. Spineanu

In this paper, we establish a novel approach to proving existence of non-negative weak solutions for degenerate parabolic equations of fourth order, like the Cahn-Hilliard and certain thin film equations. The considered evolution equations…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-09-16 Stefano Lisini , Daniel Matthes , Giuseppe Savaré

In this work, we obtain third order linear differential equation for stationary distributions of run-and-tumble particles in two-dimensions in a harmonic trap. The equation represents the condition $j = 0$ where $j$ is a flux and is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-25 Derek Frydel

Starting from a nonlinear 2D/1D fluid-structure interaction problem between a thin layer of a viscous fluid and a thin elastic structure, on the vanishing limit of the relative fluid thickness, we rigorously derive a sixth-order thin-film…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-27 Mario Bukal , Boris Muha

We study, globaly in time, the velocity distribution $f(v,t)$ of a spatially homogeneous system that models a system of electrons in a weakly ionized plasma, subjected to a constant external electric field $E$. The density $f$ satisfies a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 E. Carlen , R. Esposito , J. L. Lebowitz , R. Marra , A. Rokhlenko

We study a model for a fluid showing viscoelastic and viscoplastic behavior, which describes the flow in terms of the fluid velocity and an internal stress. This stress tensor is transported via the Zaremba--Jaumann rate, and it is subject…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-22 Thomas Eiter , Katharina Hopf , Robert Lasarzik

In this paper we present applications of methods from wavelet analysis to polynomial approximations for a number of accelerator physics problems. According to variational approach in the general case we have the solution as a…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Antonina N. Fedorova , Michael G. Zeitlin , Zohreh Parsa

This work is devoted to the construction of weakly nonlinear, highly oscillating, current vortex sheet solutions to the incompressible magnetohydrodynamics equations. Current vortex sheets are piecewise smooth solutions to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-03 Olivier Pierre , Jean-François Coulombel