The porous medium equation with nonlinear absorption and moving boundaries

We consider a nonlinear parabolic equation containing the porous medium operator and a nonlinear absorption term, which causes the appearance of a moving boundary. Basic behavior and regularity results are obtained for the solution and the moving boundary under two different boundary conditions. Also, the behavior of the solution and the moving boundary as time goes to infinity is investigated. Supported in part by NSF grant number MCS 8104220.     

Regularity for the porous medium equation with variable exponent: The singular case

We extend to the singular case the results of [E. Henriques, J.M. Urbano, Intrinsic scaling for PDEs with an exponential nonlinearity, Indiana Univ. Math. J. 55 (5) (2006) 1701-1721] concerning the regularity of weak solutions of the porous medium equation with variable exponent. The method of intrinsic scaling is used to show that local weak solutions are locally continuous.     

Initial trace for a doubly nonlinear parabolic equation

This paper studies the Cauchy problem for a doubly nonlinear parabolic equation. The main result shows that if there is a nonnegative solution of the Cauchy problem, then the initial trace of the solution is uniquely given as a nonnegative Borel measure satisfying an exponential growth condition. This extends the known result for the heat equation to the nonlinear case.     

The porous medium equation in a two-component domain

We consider a system of two porous medium equations defined on two different components of the real line, which are connected by the nonlinear contact condition

     

Complexity of asymptotic behavior of solutions for the porous medium equation with absorption

In this paper we analyze the large time behavior of nonnegative solutions of the Cauchy problem of the porous medium equation with absorption u t-u m + γup = 0, where γ≥ 0, m 1 and p m + 2/N . We will show that if γ = 0 and 0 μ 2N/(N(m-1)+2), or γ 0 and 1/(p-1)μ2N/(N(m-1)+2), then for any nonnegative function φ in a nonnegative countable subset F of the Schwartz space S (R N ), there exists an initial-value u0 ∈C(RN) with lim x →∞ u 0 (x) = 0 such that φ is an ω-limit point of the rescaled solutions t μ/2 u(t β·, t), where β =[2-μ(m-1)]/4 .     

Singular limit of solutions of the porous medium equation with absorption

We prove that as the solutions of , , , , , , , converges in to the solution of the ODE , , where , , satisfies in for some function , , satisfying whenever for a.e. , for and for , where is a constant and is any measurable subset of .

     

Multiple blow-up for a porous medium equation with reaction

The present paper is concerned with the Cauchy problem

The porous medium equation with measure data

We study the existence of solutions to the porous medium equation with a nonnegative, finite Radon measure on the right-hand side. We show that such problems have solutions in a wide class of supersolutions. These supersolutions are defined as lower semicontinuous functions obeying a parabolic comparison principle with respect to continuous solutions. We also consider the question of how the integrability of the gradient of solutions is affected if the measure is given by a function in L ^s , for a small exponent s > 1.     

Conservations laws for a porous medium equation through nonclassical generators

In Ibragimov (2007) [13] a general theorem on conservation laws was proved. In Gandarias (2011) and Ibragimov (2011) [7], [15] the concepts of self-adjoint and quasi self-adjoint equations were generalized and the definitions of weak self-adjoint equations and nonlinearly self-adjoint equations were introduced. In this paper, we find the subclasses of nonlinearly self-adjoint porous medium equations. By using the property of nonlinear self-adjointness, we construct some conservation laws associated with classical and nonclassical generators of the differential equation.     

Weak self-adjointness and conservation laws for a porous medium equation

The concepts of self-adjoint and quasi self-adjoint equations were introduced by Ibragimov (2006, 2007) [4], [7]. In Ibragimov (2007) [6] a general theorem on conservation laws was proved. In Gandarias (2011) [3] we generalized the concept of self-adjoint and quasi self-adjoint equations by introducing the definition of weak self-adjoint equations. In this paper we find the subclasses of weak self-adjoint porous medium equations. By using the property of weak self-adjointness we construct some conservation laws associated with symmetries of the differential equation.     

Localization for a porous medium type equation in high dimensions

We prove the strict localization for a porous medium type equation with a source term, , , 1$">, \sigma +1$">, 0,$"> in the case of arbitrary compactly supported initial functions . We also otain an estimate of the size of the localization in terms of the support of the initial data and the blow-up time . Our results extend the well-known one dimensional result of Galaktionov and solve an open question regarding high dimensions.

     

Universal self-similarity of porous media equation with absorption: the critical exponent case

In this paper we study the large time behavior of non-negative solutions to the Cauchy problem of u_t=Δu^m−u^q in R^N×(0,∞), where m>1 and q=q_c≡m+2/N is a critical exponent. For non-negative initial value u(x,0)=u₀(x)∈L¹(R^N), we show that the solution converges, if u₀(x)(1+|x|)^k is bounded for some k>N, to a unique fundamental solution of u_t=Δu^m, independent of the initial value, with additional logarithmic anomalous decay exponent in time as t→∞.