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We investigate the dispersive properties of evolution equations on waveguides with a non flat shape. More precisely we consider an operator $H=-\Delta_{x}-\Delta_{y}+V(x,y)$ with Dirichled boundary condition on an unbounded domain $\Omega$,…

Here is one of the results obtained in this paper: Let $\Omega\subset {\bf R}^n$ be a smooth bounded domain, let $q>1$, with $q<{{n+2}\over {n-2}}$ if $n\geq 3$ and let $\lambda_1$ be the first eigenvalue of the problem $$\cases{-\Delta…

We investigate a reaction-diffusion-advection equation of the form $u_t-u_{xx}+\beta u_x=f(u)$ $(t>0,\,0<x<h(t))$ with mixed boundary condition at $x=0$ and a free boundary condition at $x=h(t)$. Such a model may be applied to describe the…

In a recent paper Goriely considers the one--dimensional scalar reaction--diffusion equation $u_t = u_{xx} + f(u)$ with a polynomial reaction term $f(u)$ and conjectures the existence of a relation between a global resonance of the…

A doubly nonlinear parabolic equation of the form $\alpha(u_t)-\Delta u+W'(u)= f$, complemented with initial and either Dirichlet or Neumann homogeneous boundary conditions, is addressed. The two nonlinearities are given by the maximal…

We investigate wavefront solutions in a nonlinear system of two coupled reaction-diffusion equations with degenerate diffusivity: \[n_t = n_{xx} - nb, \quad b_t = [D nbb_x]_x + nb,\] where $t\geq0,$ $x\in\mathbb{R}$, and $D$ is a positive…

For $n\ge 3$ and $0<\epsilon\le 1$, let $\Omega\subset\mathbb R^n$ be a bounded smooth domain and $u_\epsilon:\Omega \subset\R^n\to \mathbb R^2$ solve the Ginzburg-Landau equation under the weak anchoring boundary condition: $$\begin{cases}…

The paper studies families of positive solution curves for non-autonomous two-point problems \[ u"+\lambda f(u)-\mu g(x)=0, \;\; -1<x<1, \;\; u(-1)=u(1)=0 \] depending on two positive parameters $\lambda$ and $\mu$. We regard $\lambda$ as a…

We consider the problem of quantum and stochastic confinement for drift-diffusion equations on domains $ \Omega \subset \mathbb R^d$. We obtain various sufficient conditions on the behavior of the coefficients near the boundary of $\Omega$…

The first part of this paper is devoted to the derivation of a technical result, related to the stability of the solution of a reaction-diffusion equation $u_t-\Delta u = f(x,u)$ on $(0,\infty)\times \mathbb{R}^N$, where the initial datum…

We analyze the dynamics of the flow generated by a nonlinear parabolic problem when some reaction and potential terms are concentrated in a neighborhood of the boundary. We assume that this neighborhood shrinks to the boundary as a…

This paper deals with the asymptotic behavior of solutions to the delayed monostable equation: $(*)$ $u_{t}(t,x) = u_{xx}(t,x) - u(t,x) + g(u(t-h,x)),$ $x \in \mathbb{R},\ t >0,$ where $h>0$ and the reaction term $g: \mathbb{R}_+ \to…

If $h$ is a nondecreasing real valued function and $0\leq q\leq 2$, we analyse the boundary behaviour of the gradient of any solution $u$ of $-\Delta u+h(u)+\abs {\nabla u}^q=f$ in a smooth N-dimensional domain $\Omega$ with the condition…

The paper investigates the existence of global attractors and their upper semicontinuity for a structural damped wave equation on $\mathbb{R}^{N}: u_{tt}-\Delta u+(-\Delta)^\alpha u_{t}+u_{t}+u+g(u)=f(x)$, where $\alpha\in (1/2, 1)$ is…

In this paper we consider a smooth bounded domain $\Omega \subset \R^N$ and a parametric family of radially symmetric kernels $K_\epsilon: \R^N \to \R_+$ such that, for each $\epsilon \in (0,1)$, its $L^1-$norm is finite but it blows up as…

We obtain a sequence of solutions converging to zero for the Kirchhoff equation $$-\left( 1+\int_{\Omega}\left\vert \nabla u\right\vert^2\right) \Delta u+V(x)u=f(u)\text{,\qquad}u\in H_{0}^{1}(\Omega)$$ via truncating technique and a…

We consider a generalized degenerate diffusion equation with a reaction term $u_t=[A(u)]_{xx}+f(u)$, where $A$ is a smooth function satisfying $A(0)=A'(0)=0$ and $A(u),\ A'(u),\ A''(u)>0$ for $u>0$, $f$ is of monostable type in $[0,s_1]$…

Let $\Lambda$ be a subfamily of the moduli space of degree $D\ge2$ polynomials defined by a finite number of parabolic relations. Let $\Omega$ be a bounded stable component of $\Lambda$ with the property that all critical points are…

We study the admissible growth at infinity of initial data of positive solutions of $\prt\_t u-\Gd u+f(u)=0$ in $\BBR\_+\ti\BBR^N$ when $f(u)$ is a continuous function, {\it mildly} superlinear at infinity, the model case being…

This paper deals with the homogenization of the reaction-diffusion equations in a domain containing periodically distributed holes of size $\varepsilon$, with a dynamical boundary condition of reactive-diffusive type, i.e., we consider the…