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We study the obstacle problem for the fractional Laplacian with drift, $\min\left\{(-\Delta)^s u + b \cdot \nabla u,\,u -\varphi\right\} = 0$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$, in the critical regime $s = \frac{1}{2}$. Our main result establishes the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-09 Xavier Fernández-Real , Xavier Ros-Oton

For a one-phase free boundary problem involving a fractional Laplacian, we prove that "flat free boundaries" are $C^{1,\alpha}$. We recover the regularity results of Caffarelli for viscosity solutions of the classical Bernoulli-type free…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Daniela De Silva , Jean-Michel Roquejoffre

It is well known that minimizers of the Allen-Cahn-type functional \[ J_\epsilon(u):=\int_\Omega\frac{\epsilon|\nabla u|^2}{2}+\frac{W(u)}{\epsilon}, \] where $W$ is a double-well potential, resemble minimal surfaces in the sense that their…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Jingeon An

This paper investigates a class of $p$-obstacle problems with subcritical exponents having the form \begin{align} \mathrm{div}\left( a(x)|\nabla u|^{p-2}\nabla u\right) =m_1\chi_{\{u>0\}}-m_2u^{\lambda-1}\chi_{\{u>0\}} \ \text{in}\…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Jing Yu , Jun Zheng

We consider a toy model of rate independent droplet motion on a surface with contact angle hysteresis based on the one-phase Bernoulli free boundary problem. We introduce a notion of solutions based on an obstacle problem. These solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-10 William M Feldman , Inwon C Kim , Norbert Požár

This paper concerns the theoretical and numerical analysis of a free boundary problem for the Laplace equation, with a curvature condition on the free boundary. This boundary is described as the graph of a function, and contact angles are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-04 Ivan Fumagalli

It is shown in Ferrari \cite{Ferrari-1993CMP} that if $[0, T^*)$ is the maximal time interval of existence of a smooth solution of the incompressible Euler equations in a bounded, simply-connected domain in $\mathbb{R}^3$, then…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-13 Chenyun Luo , Kai Zhou

We consider a one-phase Bernoulli free boundary problem in a container $D$ - a smooth open subset of $\mathbb{R}^d$ - under the condition that on the fixed boundary $\partial D$ the normal derivative of the solutions is prescribed. We study…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Lorenzo Ferreri , Giorgio Tortone , Bozhidar Velichkov

We study the Signorini problem near a fixed boundary, where the solution is "clamped down" or "glued." We show that in general the solutions are at least $C^{1/2}$ regular and that this regularity is sharp. We prove that near the actual…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-09-16 Norayr Matevosyan , Arshak Petrosyan

This paper is concerned with the nonlinear elliptic problem $-\Delta u=\frac{\lambda }{(a-u)^2}$ on a bounded domain $\Omega$ of $\mathbb{R}^N$ with Dirichlet boundary conditions. This problem arises from Micro-Electromechanical Systems…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-11 Huyuan Chen , Ying Wang , Feng Zhou

The non-transversal intersection of the free boundary with the fixed boundary is obtained for nonlinear uniformly elliptic operators when $\Omega = \{\nabla u \neq 0\} \cap \{x_n>0\}$ thereby solving a problem in elliptic theory that in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-05 Emanuel Indrei

We give a characterisation of the singular points of the free boundary $\partial \{u>0\}$ for viscosity solutions of the nonlinear equation \begin{equation}F(D^2 u)=-\chi_{\{u>0\}},\tag{0.1} \end{equation} where $F$ is a fully nonlinear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-01 Aram Karakhanyan

In this paper, we consider the obstacle problem for the fractional Laplace operator $(-\Delta)^s$ in the Euclidian space $\mathbb{R}^n$ in the case where $1<s<2$. As first observed in \cite{Y}, the problem can be extended to the upper…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Donatella Danielli , Alaa Haj Ali , Arshak Petrosyan

We study the structure of solutions of the interior Bernoulli free boundary problem for $(-\Delta)^{\alpha/2}$ on an interval $D$ with parameter $\lambda > 0$. In particular, we show that there exists a constant $\lambda_{\alpha,D} > 0$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Tadeusz Kulczycki , Jacek Wszoła

In this work, we study the asymptotic behavior of the free boundary of the solution to the exterior Bernoulli problem for the half Laplacian when the Bernoulli's gradient parameter tends to $0^+$ and to $+\infty$. Moreover, we show that,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-09 Sven Jarohs , Tadeusz Kulczycki , Paolo Salani

We consider a free boundary problem for the $p$-Laplace operator which is related to the so-called Bernoulli free boundary problem. In this formulation, the classical boundary gradient condition is replaced by a condition on the distance…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-05-01 Maria del Mar Gonzalez , Maria Gualdani , Henrik Shahgholian

The free boundary problem\[ \begin{cases} \partial_tu=\frac{1}{2}\Delta u+u,\quad &t>0, \, x>L_t,\\ u(t,x)=0,\quad &t>0,\, x\le L_t,\\ \int_{L_t}^{\infty}u(t,y)dy=1,\quad &t> 0,\\ u(t,x)dx \to u_0(dx)&\text{weakly as }t\to 0, \end{cases}\]…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Julien Berestycki , Sarah Penington , Oliver Tough

In this paper, we consider a doubly nonlinear parabolic equation $ \partial _t \beta (u) - \nabla \cdot \alpha (x , \nabla u) \ni f$ with the homogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition in a bounded domain, where $\beta : \mathbb{R} \to 2 ^{…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-21 Shun Uchida

We consider a one-phase free boundary problem involving fractional Laplacian $(-\Delta)^s$, $0<s<1$. D. De Silva, O. Savin, and Y. Sire proved that the flat boundaries are $C^{1,\alpha}$. We raise the regularity to $C^{\infty}$, extending…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Runcao Lyu

We consider the boundary value problem \begin{equation*} - \Delta u = \lambda c(x)u+ \mu(x) |\nabla u|^2 + h(x), \quad u \in H^1_0(\Omega) \cap L^{\infty}(\Omega) \eqno{(P_{\lambda})} \end{equation*} where $\Omega \subset \R^N, N \geq 3$ is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-03-18 David Arcoya , Colette De Coster , Louis Jeanjean , Kazunaga Tanaka