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In this paper we study the behavior of the energy of solutions of the wave equation with localized damping in exterior domain. We assume that the damper is positive at infinity. Under the Geometric Control Condition of Bardos et al (1992),…
Solutions in self-similar form, either global in time or presenting finite time blow-up, to the supercritical fast diffusion equation with spatially inhomogeneous source $$ \partial_tu=\Delta u^m+|x|^{\sigma}u^p, \quad…
Consider the Cauchy problem for a nonlinear diffusion equation \begin{equation} \tag{P} \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} \partial_t u=\Delta u^m+u^\alpha & \quad\mbox{in}\quad{\bf R}^N\times(0,\infty),\\ u(x,0)=\lambda+\varphi(x)>0 &…
We study a reaction-diffusion system on the real line, where the reactions of the species are given by one reversible reaction according to the mass-action law. We describe different positive limits at both sides of infinity and investigate…
We prove new time decay estimates for the linearized $\beta$-plane equation near the Couette flow on the plane that combine inviscid damping and the dispersion of Rossby waves. Specifically, we show that the profiles of the velocity field…
In this article, we consider the space-time fractional (nonlocal) equation characterizing the so-called "double-scale" anomalous diffusion $$\partial_t^\beta u(t, x) = -(-\Delta)^{\alpha/2}u(t,x) - (-\Delta)^{\gamma/2}u(t,x) \ \ t> 0, \…
We report on recent progress in the study of nonlinear diffusion equations involving nonlocal, long-range diffusion effects. Our main concern is the so-called fractional porous medium equation, $\partial_t u +(-\Delta)^{s}(u^m)=0$, and some…
In this article, we establish the existence of a family of hypersurfaces $(\Gamma (t))_{0< t \leq T}$ which evolve by the vanishing mean curvature flow in Minkowski space and which as $t$ tends to~$0$ blow up towards a hypersurface which…
We study the space-time concentration or blow-up asymptotics of radially decreasing solutions of the parabolic-elliptic Keller-Segel system in the whole space or in a ball. We show that, for any solution in dimensions $3\le n\le 9$…
We study the large time behavior of solutions to the Cauchy problem for the quasilinear absorption-diffusion equation $$ \partial_tu=\Delta u^m-|x|^{\sigma}u^p, \quad (x,t)\in\real^N\times(0,\infty), $$ with exponents $p>m>1$ and $\sigma>0$…
Consider the time-dependent problem of mass transfer of a solute between two phases and assume that the solute is initially distributed in one phase (phase 2) and absent from the other (phase 1). We desire the fraction of total solute…
We study the asymptotic behavior of nonnegative solutions of the semilinear parabolic problem {u_t=\Delta u + u^{p}, x\in\mathbb{R}^{N}, t>0 u(0)=u_{0}, x\in\mathbb{R}^{N}, t=0. It is known that the nonnegative solution $u(t)$ of this…
The critical Burgers equation $\partial_t u + u \partial_x u + \Lambda u = 0$ is a toy model for the competition between transport and diffusion with regard to shock formation in fluids. It is well known that smooth initial data does not…
This paper completes some previous studies by several authors on the finite time extinction for nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation when the nonlinear damping term corresponds to the limit cases of some ``saturating non-Kerr law''…
In this paper we consider radially symmetric solutions of the following parabolic--elliptic cross-diffusion system \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} u_t = \Delta u - \nabla \cdot (u f(|\nabla v|^2 )\nabla v) + g(u), & \\[2mm] 0= \Delta v…
We study systems of nonlinear ordinary differential equations where the dominant term, with respect to large spatial variables, causes blow-ups and is positively homogeneous of a degree $1+\alpha$ for some $\alpha>0$. We prove that the…
We study two identification problems in relation with a strongly degenerate parabolic diffusion equation characterized by a vanishing diffusion coefficient $u\in W^{1,\infty},$ with the property $\frac{1}{u}\notin L^{1}. $ The aim is to…
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…
In this paper, we study the formation of finite time singularities for the solution of the boundary layer equations in the two-dimensional incompressible heat conducting flow. We obtain that the first spacial derivative of the solution…
We consider the $2 \times 2$ parabolic systems \begin{equation*} u^{\epsilon}_t + A(u^{\epsilon}) u^{\epsilon}_x = \epsilon u^{\epsilon}_{xx} \end{equation*} on a domain $(t, x) \in ]0, + \infty[ \times ]0, l[$ with Dirichlet boundary…