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We derive $C^{1,\alpha}$ estimates for viscosity solutions of fully nonlinear equations degenerating on a hypersurface.
We analyze a nonlinear degenerate parabolic problem whose diffusion coefficient is the Heaviside function of the distance of the solution itself from a given target function. We show that this model behaves as an evolutive variational…
This paper presents a full classification of the short-time behavior of the interfaces in the Cauchy problem for the nonlinear second order degenerate parabolic PDE \[ u_t-\Delta u^m +b u^\beta=0, \ x\in \mathbb{R}^N, 0<t<T \] with…
We derive the existence of $C^{1,1}$-solutions to the Dirichlet problem for degenerate fully nonlinear elliptic equations on Riemannian manifolds under appropriate assumptions.
The aim of this paper is to develop a numerical scheme to approximate evolving interface problems for parabolic equations based on the abstract evolving finite element framework proposed in (C M Elliott, T Ranner, IMA J Num Anal, 41:3,…
We study finite element approximations of elliptic and parabolic interface problems with discontinuous coefficients and nonlinear jump conditions. We introduce a scalar interface reduction in which the solution is decomposed into a…
The purpose of this paper is three-fold. Firstly we attack a nonlinear interface problem on an unbounded domain with nonmonotone set-valued transmission conditions. The investigated problem involves a nonlinear monotone partial differential…
We consider elliptic transmission problems in several space dimensions near an interface which is $C^{1,1}$ diffeomorphic to an axisymmetric reference-interface with a singular point of cusp type. We establish the regularity of the gradient…
We develop a reduced-order framework for optimizing mixing in two-dimensional incompressible flows. Instead of optimizing the full transport PDE, the method maximizes the length of advected material interfaces, leading to a…
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We develop the regularity theory of viscosity solutions to transmission problems for fully nonlinear second order uniformly elliptic equations. Our results give a complete theory of existence, uniqueness, comparison principle, and…
In this paper, we study the sharp interface limit for solutions of the Cahn-Hilliard equation with disparate mobilities. This means that the mobility function degenerates in one of the two energetically favorable configurations, suppressing…
In this paper, we present a new numerical method for determining the numerical solution of interface problems to optimal accuracy with respect to the polynomial order of the Lagrangian finite element space on polytopial meshes. We introduce…
We propose a $k^{\rm th}$-order unfitted finite element method ($2\le k\le 4$) to solve the moving interface problem of the Oseen equations. Thorough error estimates for the discrete solutions are presented by considering errors from…
In this paper we prove a H\"older propagation of smallness for solutions to second order parabolic equations whose general anisotropic leading coefficient has a jump at an interface. We assume that the leading coefficient is Lipschitz…
In this work, the sharp interface limit of the degenerate Cahn-Hilliard equation (in two space dimensions) with a polynomial double well free energy and a quadratic mobility is derived via a matched asymptotic analysis involving…
In this paper, we investigate optimal control problems governed by the parabolic interface equation, in which the control acts on the interface. The solution to this problem exhibits low global regularity due to the jump of the coefficient…
We define a new finite element method for a steady state elliptic problem with discontinuous diffusion coefficients where the meshes are not aligned with the interface. We prove optimal error estimates in the $L^2$ norm and $H^1$ weighted…