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We consider the Cauchy problem associated with the modified Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation over $\mathbb{R}^2$. Taking into consideration the associated dispersive effects, we introduce, for $s,a\ge 0$, a two-parameter space…

We establish the existence of a global solution for a new family of fluid-like equations, which are obtained in a joint work with Serfaty in certain regimes as the mean-field evolution of the supercurrent density in a (2D section of a)…

We prove probabilistic well-posedness for a 2D viscous nonlinear wave equation modeling fluid-structure interaction between a 3D incompressible, viscous Stokes flow and nonlinear elastodynamics of a 2D stretched membrane. The focus is on…

For the natural initial conditions $L^1$ in the density field (more generally a positive bounded Radon measure) and $L^\infty$ in the velocity field we obtain global approximate solutions to the Cauchy problem for the 3-D systems of…

The goal of this monograph is to prove that any solution of the Cauchy problem for the capillarity-gravity water waves equations, in one space dimension, with periodic, even in space, initial data of small size $\epsilon$, is almost…

We study low regularity behavior of the nonlinear wave equation in $\mathbb{R}^2$ augmented by the viscous dissipative effects described by the Dirichlet-Neumann operator. Problems of this type arise in fluid-structure interaction where the…

We study the initial value problem for the wave equation and the ultrahyperbolic equation for data posed on initial surface of mixed signature (both spacelike and timelike). Under a nonlocal constraint, we show that the Cauchy problem on…

We consider the evolution of two incompressible, immiscible fluids with different densities in porous media, known as the Muskat problem [21], which in two dimensions is analogous to the Hele-Shaw cell [26]. We establish, for a class of…

The Cauchy problem for a modified Zakharov system is proven to be locally well-posed for rough data in two and three space dimensions. In the three dimensional case the problem is globally well-posed for data with small energy. Under this…

A new analysis of basic Couette flow, is based on an Action Principle for compressible fluids, with a Hamiltonian as well as a kinetic potential. An effective criterion for stability recognizes the tensile strength of water. This…

The skew mean curvature flow is an evolution equation for $d$ dimensional manifolds embedded in $\mathbb{R}^{d+2}$ (or more generally, in a Riemannian manifold). It can be viewed as a Schr\"odinger analogue of the mean curvature flow, or…

We consider the Cauchy problem for the kinetic derivative nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on the torus: \[ \partial_t u - i \partial_x^2 u = \alpha \partial_x \big( |u|^2 u \big) + \beta \partial_x \big[ H \big( |u|^2 \big) u \big] , \quad…

We prove a global well-posedness and regularity result of strong solutions to a slightly modified Michelson-Sivashinsky equation in any spatial dimension and in the absence of physical boundaries. Local-in-time well-posedness (and…

The aim of this paper is to investigate the Cauchy problem for the periodic fifth order KP-I equation \[\partial_t u - \partial_x^5 u -\partial_x^{-1}\partial_y^2u + u\partial_x u = 0,~(t,x,y)\in\mathbb{R}\times\mathbb{T}^2\] We prove…

We consider the Cauchy problem for the rotation-modified Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (RMKP) equation \begin{align*} \partial_{x}\left(u_{t}-\beta\partial_{x}^{3}u +\partial_{x}(u^{2})\right)+\partial_{y}^{2}u-\gamma u=0 \end{align*} in the…

In the lines of a recent paper by Gerard-Varet and Dormy, we establish various ill-posedness results for the Prandtl equation. By considering perturbations of stationary shear flows, we show that for some linearizations of the Prandtl…

The present paper is devoted to the study of the well-posedness issue for the density-dependent Euler equations in the whole space. We establish local-in-time results for the Cauchy problem pertaining to data in the Besov spaces embedded in…

It is shown that the Cauchy problem for the DNLS equation in the spatially periodic setting is locally well-posed in Sobolev spaces H^s(T) for s \geq 1/2. Moreover, global well-posedness is shown for s \geq 1 and data with small L^2 norm.

We study the Cauchy problem for a generalized derivative nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with the Dirichlet boundary condition. We establish the local well-posedness results in the Sobolev spaces $H^1$ and $H^2$. Solutions are constructed…

In this work I study the well-posedness of the Cauchy problem associated with the coupled Schr\"odinger equations {with quadratic nonlinearities}, which appears modeling problems in nonlinear optics. I obtain the local well-posedness for…