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We study a higher order parabolic partial differential equation that arises in the context of condensed matter physics. It is a fourth order semilinear equation whose nonlinearity is the determinant of the Hessian matrix of the solution. We…

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We show the existence and uniqueness of solutions (either local or global for small data) for an equation arising in different aspects of surface growth. Following the work of Koch and Tataru we consider spaces critical with respect to…

Motivated by a model proposed by Peng et al. [Advances in Coll. and Interf. Sci. 206 (2014)] for break-up of tear films on human eyes, we study the dynamics of a generalized thin film model. The governing equations form a fourth-order…

This paper deals with the existence of solutions to a class of fourth order nonlinear elliptic equations. The technique used relies on critical points theory. The solutions appeared as critical points of a functional restricted to a…

In this paper we prove the global existence of classical static solutions of Einstein gravitational theory coupled to a real scalar field where the spacetime admits spherically symmetry. The equations of motions can then be reduced into a…

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We consider the question of global existence of smooth solutions to a multi-species aggregation-diffusion equation for a class of singular interaction kernels. We establish a smallness condition on the initial data which yields global…

Existence and uniqueness are investigated for a nonlinear diffusion problem of phase-field type, consisting of a parabolic system of two partial differential equations, complemented by Neumann homogeneous boundary conditions and initial…

Since the pioneering work of James E. Broadwell, discrete velocity models (DVMs) have played a fundamental role in approximating the Boltzmann equation and in the analysis of non-equilibrium gas dynamics. Despite their apparent simplicity,…

A global existence theorem on weak solutions is shown for the continuous coagulation equation with collisional breakage under certain classes of unbounded collision kernels and distribution functions. This model describes the dynamics of…

A mathematical model for the discrete nonlinear fragmentation (collision-induced breakage) equation with diffusion is studied. The existence of global weak solutions is established in arbitrary spatial dimensions without assuming a strictly…

We investigate an evolutive system of non-linear partial differential equations derived from Oldroyd models on Non-Newtonian flows. We prove global existence of weak solutions, in the case of a smooth bounded domain, for general initial…

In this paper we investigate the existence of solutions and their weak-strong uniqueness property for a PDE system modelling damage in viscoelastic materials. In fact, we address two solution concepts, weak and strong solutions. For the…

The purpose of this article is to show that there are many differential viscoelastic models for which the global existence of a regular solution is possible. Although the problem of global existence in the classic Oldroyd model is still…

The analysis of the long-term behavior of the mathematical model of a neural network constitutes a suitable framework to develop new tools for the dynamical description of nonautonomous state-dependent delay equations (SDDEs). The concept…