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We consider a cantilevered (clamped-free) beam in an axial potential flow. Certain flow velocities may bring about a bounded-response instability in the structure, termed {\em flutter}. As a preliminary analysis, we employ the theory of…
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We prove nonlinear stability of the fundamental self--similar solution of the wave equation with a focusing power nonlinearity $\psi_{tt}-\Delta \psi=\psi^p$ for $p=3,5,7,...$ in the radial case. The proof is based on a semigroup…
We perform the nonlinear stability analysis of a chemotaxis model of bacterial self-organization, assuming that bacteria respond sharply to chemical signals. The resulting discontinuous advection speed represents the key challenge for the…
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Turbulent suspensions of heavy particles in incompressible flows have gained much attention in recent years. A large amount of work focused on the impact that the inertia and the dissipative dynamics of the particles have on their dynamical…
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