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We develop a method to prove almost global stability of stochastic differential equations in the sense that almost every initial point (with respect to the Lebesgue measure) is asymptotically attracted to the origin with unit probability.…
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The problems of numerical modeling of viscous incompressible fluid flows are widely considered in computational fluid dynamics. Stationary solutions of boundary value problems for the Navier-Stokes equations exist at large Reynolds numbers,…
We investigate the behavior of solutions of the complex Gross-Pitaevskii equation, a model that describes the dynamics of pumped decaying Bose-Einstein condensates. The stationary radially symmetric solutions of the equation are studied and…
We consider nonholonomic geodesic flows of left-invariant metrics and left-invariant nonintegrable distributions on compact connected Lie groups. The equations of geodesic flows are reduced to the Euler-Poincare-Suslov equations on the…
We consider the Yang-Mills flow on hyperbolic 3-space. The gauge connection is constructed from the frame-field and (not necessarily compatible) spin connection components. The fixed points of this flow include zero Yang-Mills curvature…
Flow in variably saturated porous media is typically modelled by the Richards equation, a nonlinear elliptic-parabolic equation which is notoriously challenging to solve numerically. In this paper, we propose a robust and fast iterative…
Viscoelastic fluids are a common subclass of rheologically complex materials that are encountered in diverse fields from biology to polymer processing. Often the flows of viscoelastic fluids are unstable in situations where ordinary…
In the present paper, we obtain some gradient estimates for positive solutions to the following nonlinear parabolic equation under general geometric flow on complete noncompact manifolds.