We study finite time blow-up and global existence of solutions to the Cauchy problem for the porous medium equation with a variable density $ρ(x)$ and a power-like reaction term. We show that for small enough initial data, if $ρ(x)\sim \frac{1}{\left(\log|x|\right)^α|x|^{2}}$ as $|x|\to \infty$, then solutions globally exist for any $p>1$. On the other hand, when $ρ(x)\sim\frac{\left(\log|x|\right)^α}{|x|^{2}}$ as $|x|\to \infty$, if the initial datum is small enough then one has global existence of the solution for any $p>m$, while if the initial datum is large enough then the blow-up of the solutions occurs for any $p>m$. Such results generalize those established in [27] and [28], where it is supposed that $ρ(x)\sim |x|^{-q}$ for $q>0$ as $|x|\to \infty$.
Three types of blow-up for a fourth-order degenerate reaction-diffusion equation are studied by a combination of analytic and numerical methods. At the critical values of parameters, there occurs a variational problem with a countable set of solutions obtained by Lysternik--Shnirelman category theory, which then are extended to neighbouring values of parameters by a homotopy-like approach.
We study global in time existence versus blow-up in finite time of solutions to the Cauchy problem for the porous medium equation with a variable density $ρ(x)$ and a power-like reaction term posed in the one dimensional interval $(-R,R)$, $R>0$. Here the weight function is singular at the boundary of the domain $(-R,R)$, indeed it is such that $ρ(x)\sim (R-|x|)^{-q}$ as $|x|\to R$, with $q\ge0$. We show a different behavior of solutions depending on the three cases when $q>2$, $q=2$ and $q<2$.
The final goal of this paper is to prove existence of local (strong) solutions to a (fully nonlinear) porous medium equation with blow-up term and nondecreasing constraint. To this end, the equation, arising in the context of Damage Mechanics, is reformulated as a mixed form of two different types of doubly nonlinear evolution equations. Global (in time) solutions to some approximate problems are constructed by performing a time discretization argument and by taking advantage of energy techniques based on specific structures of the equation. Moreover, a variational comparison principle for (po…
We are concerned with nonnegative solutions to the Cauchy problem for the porous medium equation with a variable density $ρ(x)$ and a power-like reaction term $u^p$ with $p>1$. The density decays {\it fast} at infinity, in the sense that $ρ(x)\sim |x|^{-q}$ as $|x|\to +\infty$ with $q\ge 2.$ In the case when $q=2$, if $p$ is bigger than $m$, we show that, for large enough initial data, solutions blow-up in finite time and for small initial datum, solutions globally exist. On the other hand, in the case when $q>2$, we show that existence of global in time solutions always prevails. The case of …
We show that locally bounded solutions of the inhomogeneous porous medium equation $$u_{t} - {\rm div} \left( m |u|^{m-1} \nabla u \right) = f \in L^{q,r}, \quad m >1 ,$$ are locally Hölder continuous, with exponent $$γ=\min \left\{ \frac{α_{0}^-}{m}, \frac{[(2q - n)r -2q]}{q[(mr - (m-1)]} \right\},$$ where $α_{0}$ denotes the optimal Hölder exponent for solutions of the homogeneous case. The proof relies on an approximation lemma and geometric iteration in the appropriate intrinsic scaling.
We consider the nonlinear Schrödinger equation with $L^2$-critical exponent and an inhomogeneous damping term. By using the tools developed by Merle and Raphael, we prove the existence of blowup phenomena in the energy space $H^1(\mathbb{R})$.
We consider the focusing inhomogeneous mass critical half-wave equation in one dimension. Under the mild conditions of the inhomogeneous factor, we show that the existence of the radial blowup solutions with ground state mass $\|u_0\|_2=\|Q\|_2$, where $Q$ is the unique positive ground state solution of equation $DQ+Q=Q^3$ and obtain the blowup rate $\|D^{\frac{1}{2}}u(t)\|_{L^2}\sim\frac{1}{|t|}$ as $t\nearrow 0^-$.
We establish the classification of minimal mass blow-up solutions of the $L^2$ critical inhomogeneous nonlinear Schrödinger equation \[ i\partial_t u + Δu + |x|^{-b}|u|^{\frac{4-2b}{N}}u = 0, \] thereby extending the celebrated result of Merle from the classic case $b=0$ to the case $0<b<\min\{2,N\}$, in any dimension $N\ge1$.
We investigate the $p-$Laplace heat equation $u_t-Δ_p u=ζ(t)f(u)$ on a bounded smooth domain $Ω\subset\mathbb{R}^N$. Using differential inequalities arguments, we prove blow-up results under suitable conditions on $ζ, f$, and the initial data $u_0$. We also give an upper bound for the blow-up time in each case.
We consider the porous medium equation with power-type reaction terms $u^p$ on negatively curved Riemannian manifolds, and solutions corresponding to bounded, nonnegative and compactly supported data. If $p>m$, small data give rise to global-in-time solutions while solutions associated to large data blow up in finite time. If $p<m$, large data blow up at worst in infinite time, and under the stronger restriction $p\in(1,(1+m)/2]$ all data give rise to solutions existing globally in time, whereas solutions corresponding to large data blow up in infinite time. The results are in several aspects …
We study existence of global solutions and finite time blow-up of solutions to the Cauchy problem for the porous medium equation with a variable density $ρ(x)$ and a power-like reaction term $ρ(x) u^p$ with $p>1$; this is a mathematical model of a thermal evolution of a heated plasma (see [25]). The density decays slowly at infinity, in the sense that $ρ(x)\lesssim |x|^{-q}$ as $|x|\to +\infty$ with $q\in [0, 2).$ We show that for large enough initial data, solutions blow-up in finite time for any $p>1$. On the other hand, if the initial datum is small enough and $p>\bar p$, for a suitable $\b…
We consider the inhomogeneous nonlinear Schrödinger equation (INLS) in $\mathbb{R}^N$, $N \geq 1$, $$i \partial_t u + Δu + |x|^{-b} |u|^{p-1}u = 0,$$ with finite-variance initial data $u_0 \in H^1(\mathbb{R}^N)$. We extend the dichotomy between scattering and blow-up for solutions above the mass-energy threshold (and with arbitrarily large energy). We also show other two blow-up criteria, wich are valid in any mass-supercritical setting, given there is local well-posedness.
We study the inhomogeneous linear system which arises in the higher order asymptotic expansion of the wave functions of multi-component Bose-Einstein condensates, across the regular part of the interface, in the case of segregation.
We consider the supercritical inhomogeneous nonlinear Schrödinger equation (INLS) $$i\partial_t u+Δu+|x|^{-b}|u|^{2σ}u=0,$$ where $(2-b)/N<σ<(2-b)/(N-2)$ and $0<b<\min\{2,N\}$. We prove a Gagliardo-Nirenberg type estimate and use it to establish sufficient conditions for global existence and blow-up in $H^1(\mathbb{R}^N)$.
The inhomogeneous Muskat problem models the dynamics of an interface between two fluids of differing characteristics inside a non-uniform porous medium. We consider the case of a porous media with a permeability jump across a horizontal boundary away from an interface between two fluids of different viscosities and densities. For initial data of explicit medium size, depending on the characteristics of the fluids and porous media, we will prove the global existence and uniqueness of a solution which is instantly analytic and decays in time to the flat interface.
In this paper we consider the inhomogeneous nonlinear Schrödinger (INLS) equation \begin{align}\label{inls} i \partial_t u +Δu +|x|^{-b} |u|^{2σ}u = 0, \,\,\, x \in \mathbb{R}^N \end{align} with $N\geq 3$. We focus on the intercritical case, where the scaling invariant Sobolev index $s_c=\frac{N}{2}-\frac{2-b}{2σ}$ satisfies $0<s_c<1$. In a previous work, for radial initial data in $\dot H^{s_c}\cap \dot H^1$, we prove the existence of blow-up solutions and also a lower bound for the blow-up rate. Here we extend these results to the non-radial case. We also prove an upper bound for the blow-up…
We consider the $L^2$ critical inhomogeneous nonlinear Schrödinger (INLS) equation in $\mathbb{R}^N$ $$ i \partial_t u +Δu +|x|^{-b} |u|^{\frac{4-2b}{N}}u = 0, $$ where $N\geq 1$ and $0<b<2$. We prove that if $u_0\in H^1(\mathbb{R}^N)$ satisfies $E[u_0]<0$, then the corresponding solution blows-up in finite time. This is in sharp contrast to the classical $L^2$ critical NLS equation where this type of result is only known in the radial case for $N\geq 2$.
We consider the fractional porous medium flow introduced by Caffarelli-Vazquez and obtain local in time existence, uniqueness, and blow-up criterion for smooth solutions. The proof is based on establishing a commutator estimate involving fractional Laplacian operators.
We consider the 2-dimensional focusing mass critical NLS with an inhomogeneous nonlinearity: $i\partial_tu+Δu+k(x)|u|^{2}u=0$. From standard argument, there exists a threshold $M_k>0$ such that $H^1$ solutions with $\|u\|_{L^2}<M_k$ are global in time while a finite time blow up singularity formation may occur for $\|u\|_{L^2}>M_k$. In this paper, we consider the dynamics at threshold $\|u_0\|_{L^2}=M_k$ and give a necessary and sufficient condition on $k$ to ensure the existence of critical mass finite time blow up elements. Moreover, we give a complete classification in the energy class of t…
We study solutions of a Euclidean weighted porous medium equation when the weight behaves at spacial infinity like $|x|^{-γ}$, for $γ\in [0,2)$, and is allowed to be singular at the origin. In particular we show local-in-time existence and uniqueness for a class of large initial data which includes as "endpoints" those growing at a rate of $ |x|^{(2-γ)/(m-1)}$, in a weighted $L^1$-average sense. We also identify global-existence and blow-up classes, whose respective forms strongly support the claim that such a growth rate is optimal, at least for positive solutions. As a crucial step in our ex…
In this paper we consider the long time behavior of solutions of the initial value problem for the damped wave equation of the form \begin{eqnarray*} u_{tt}-ρ(x)^{-1}Δu+u_t+m^2u=f(u) \end{eqnarray*} with some $ρ(x)$ and $f(u)$ on the whole space $\R^n$ ($n\geq 3$). For the low initial energy case, which is the non-positive initial energy, based on concavity argument we prove the blow up result. As for the high initial energy case, we give out sufficient conditions of the initial datum such that the corresponding solution blows up in finite time.
In this paper, we consider the following equation: \[ i\frac{\partial u}{\partial t}+Δu+g(x)|u|^{\frac{4}{N}}u-Wu=0. \] We construct a critical-mass solution that blows up at a finite time and describe the behaviour of the solution in the neighbourhood of the blow-up time. Banica-Carles-Duyckaertz (2011) has shown the existence of a critical-mass blow-up solution under the assumptions that $N\leq 2$, that $g$ and $W$ are sufficiently smooth and that each derivative of these is bounded. In this paper, we show the existence of a critical-mass blow-up solution under weaker assumptions regarding s…
In this paper we study nonnegative and classical solutions $u=u(\nx,t)$ to porous medium problems of the type \begin{equation}\label{ProblemAbstract} \tag{$\Diamond$} \begin{cases} u_t=Δu^m + g(u,|\nabla u|) & {\bf x} \in Ω, t\in I,\\ %u_ν+hu=0 & \textrm{on}\; \partial Ω, t>0,\\ u({\bf x},0)=u_0({\bf x})&{\bf x} \in Ω,\\ \end{cases} \end{equation} where $Ω$ is a bounded and smooth domain of $\R^N$, with $N\geq 1$, $I=(0,t^*)$ is the maximal interval of existence of $u$, $m>1$ and $u_0(\nx)$ is a nonngative and sufficiently regular function. The problem is equipped with different boundary condi…
In this paper, we study the Cauchy problem for the focusing inhomogeneous nonlinear Schrödinger equation with inverse-square potential \[iu_{t} +Δu-c|x|^{-2}u+|x|^{-b} |u|^{σ} u=0,\; u(0)=u_{0} \in H_{c}^{1},\;(t,x)\in \mathbb R\times\mathbb R^{d},\] where $d\ge3$, $0<b<2$, $\frac{4-2b}{d}<σ<\frac{4-2b}{d-2}$ and $c>-c(d):=-\left(\frac{d-2}{2}\right)^{2}$. We first establish the criteria for global existence and blow-up of general (not necessarily radial or finite variance) solutions to the equation. Using these criteria, we study the global existence and blow-up of solutions to the equation w…
We investigate the Cauchy problem for the focusing inhomogeneous nonlinear Schrödinger equation $i \partial_t u + Δu = - |x|^b |u|^{p-1} u$ in the radial Sobolev space $H^1_{\text{rad}}(\mathbb{R}^N)$, where $b>0$ and $p>1$. We show the global existence and energy scattering in the inter-critical regime, i.e., $p>\frac{N+4+2b}{N}$ and $p<\frac{N+2+2b}{N-2}$ if $N\geq 3$. We also obtain blowing-up solutions for the mass-critical and mass-supercritical nonlinearities. The main difficulty, coming from the spatial growing nonlinearity, is overcome by refined Gagliardo-Nirenberg type inequalities. …
We consider the large-time behavior of sign-changing solutions of the inhomogeneous equation $u_t-Δu=|x|^α|u|^{p}+ζ(t)\,{\mathbf w}(x)$ in $(0,\infty)\times\mathbb{R}^N$, where $N\geq 3$, $p>1$, $α>-2$, $\z, {\mathbf w}$ are continuous functions such that $ζ(t)=t^σ$ or $ζ(t)\sim t^σ$ as $t\to 0$, $ζ(t)\sim t^m$ as $t\to\infty$ . We obtain local existence for $σ>-1$. We also show the following: \begin{itemize} \item If $m\leq 0$, $p<\frac{N-2m+α}{N-2m-2}$ and $\int_{\mathbb{R}^N}{\mathbf w}(x)dx>0$, then all solutions blow up in finite time; \item If $m> 0$, $p>1$ and $\int_{\mathbb{R}^N}{\math…
In this paper, we consider a class of the focusing inhomogeneous nonlinear Schrödinger equation \[ i\partial_t u + Δu + |x|^{-b} |u|^αu = 0, \quad u(0)=u_0 \in H^1(\mathbb{R}^d), \] with $0<b<\min\{2,d\}$ and $α_\star\leq α<α^\star$ where $α_\star =\frac{4-2b}{d}$ and $α^\star=\frac{4-2b}{d-2}$ if $d\geq 3$ and $α^\star = \infty$ if $d=1,2$. In the mass-critical case $α=α_\star$, we prove that if $u_0$ has negative energy and satisfies either $xu_0 \in L^2$ with $d\geq 1$ or $u_0$ is radial with $d\geq 2$, then the corresponding solution blows up in finite time. Moreover, when $d=1$, we prove …
We study the Cauchy problem for an inhomogeneous Gross-Pitaevskii equation. We first derive a sharp threshold for global existence and blow up of the solution. Then we construct and classify finite time blow up solutions at the minimal mass threshold. Additionally, using variational techniques, we study the existence, the orbital stability and instability of standing waves.
We study a kind of generalized porous medium equation with fractional Laplacian and abstract pressure term. For a large class of equations corresponding to the form: $u_t+νΛ^βu=\nabla\cdot(u\nabla Pu)$, we get their local well-posedness in Fourier-Besov spaces for large initial data. If the initial data is small, then the solution becomes global. Furthermore, we prove a blowup criterion for the solutions.
We consider the focusing inhomogeneous nonlinear Schrödinger (INLS) equation in $\mathbb{R}^N$ $$i \partial_t u +Δu + |x|^{-b} |u|^{2σ}u = 0,$$ where $N\geq 2$ and $σ$, $b>0$. We first obtain a small data global result in $H^1$, which, in the two spatial dimensional case, improves the third author result in [22] on the range of $b$. For $N\geq 3$ and $\frac{2-b}{N}<σ<\frac{2-b}{N-2}$, we also study the local well posedness in $\dot H^{s_c}\cap \dot H^1 $, where $s_c=\frac{N}{2}-\frac{2-b}{2σ}$. Sufficient conditions for global existence of solutions in $\dot H^{s_c}\cap \dot H^1$ are also esta…
In this work we study the evolution of the interface between two different fluids in a porous media with two different permeabilities. We prove local existence in Sobolev spaces, when the free boundary is given by the discontinuity among the densities and viscosities of the fluids.
The L^1-critical parabolic-elliptic Patlak-Keller-Segel system is a classical model of chemotactic aggregation in micro-organisms well-known to have critical mass phenomena. In this paper we study this critical mass phenomenon in the context of Patlak-Keller-Segel models with spatially varying diffusivity and decay rate of the chemo-attractant. The primary tool for the proof of global existence below the critical mass is the use of pseudo-differential operators to precisely evaluate the leading order quadratic portion of the potential energy (interaction energy). Under the assumption of radial…
Under a sharp asymptotic growth condition at infinity, we prove a Liouville type theorem for the inhomogeneous porous medium equation, provided it stays universally close to the heat equation. Additionally, for the homogeneous equation, we show that for the conclusion to hold, it is enough to assume the sharp asymptotic growth at infinity only in the space variable. The results are optimal, meaning that the growth condition at infinity cannot be weakened.
We consider the inhomogeneous nonlinear Schrödiger equation (INLS) in $\mathbb{R}^N$ $$i \partial u_t + Δu + |x|^{-b} |u|^{2σ}u = 0,$$ and show the $L^2$-norm concentration for the finite time blow-up solutions in the $L^2$-critical case, $σ=\frac{2-b}{N}$. Moreover, we provide an alternative for the classification of minimal mass blow-up solutions first proved by Genoud and Combet [4]. For the case $\frac{2-b}{N} < σ< \frac{2-b}{N-2}$, we show results regarding the $L^p$-critical norm concentration, generalizing the argument of Holmer and Roudenko [16] to the INLS setting.
In this paper, we consider the 3d cubic focusing inhomogeneous nonlinear Schrödinger equation with a potential $$ iu_{t}+Δu-Vu+|x|^{-b}|u|^{2}u=0,\;\;(t,x) \in {\bf{R}\times{\bf{R}}^{3}}, $$ where $0<b<1$. We first establish global well-posedness and scattering for the radial initial data $u_{0}$ in $H^{1}({\bf R}^{3})$ satisfying $M(u_{0})^{1-s_{c}}E(u_{0})^{s_{c}}<\mathcal{E}$ and $\|u_{0}\|_{L^{2}}^{2(1-s_{c})}\|H^{\frac{1}{2}}u_{0}\|_{L^{2}}^{2s_{c}}<\mathcal{K}$ provided that $V$ is repulsive, where $\mathcal{E}$ and $\mathcal{K}$ are the mass-energy and mass-kinetic of the ground states,…
In this paper, we study the time periodic problem to a three-dimensional chemotaxis-Stokes model with porous medium diffusion $Δn^m$ and inhomogeneous mixed boundary conditions. By using a double-level approximation method and some iterative techniques, we obtain the existence and time-space uniform boundedness of weak time periodic solutions for any $m>1$. Moreover, we improve the regularity for $m\le\frac{4}{3}$ and show that the obtained periodic solutions are in fact strong periodic solutions.
We consider the mass-critical focusing nonlinear Schrodinger equation in the presence of an external potential, when the nonlinearity is inhomogeneous. We show that if the inhomogeneous factor in front of the nonlinearity is sufficiently flat at a critical point, then there exists a solution which blows up in finite time with the maximal (unstable) rate at this point. In the case where the critical point is a maximum, this solution has minimal mass among the blow-up solutions. As a corollary, we also obtain unstable blow-up solutions of the mass-critical Schrodinger equation on some surfaces. …
We investigate existence and uniqueness of solutions of the Cauchy problem for the porous medium equation on a class of Cartan-Hadamard manifolds. We suppose that the radial Ricci curvature, which is everywhere nonpositive as well as sectional curvatures, can diverge negatively at infinity with an at most quadratic rate: in this sense it is referred to as critical. The main novelty with respect to previous results is that, under such hypotheses, we are able to deal with unbounded initial data and solutions. Moreover, by requiring a matching bound from above on sectional curvatures, we can also…
