We establish the existence, uniqueness and main properties of the fundamental solutions for the fractional porous medium equation introduced in [51]. They are self-similar functions of the form $u(x,t)=t^{–\alpha }f\left(\right|x|t^{–\beta })$ with suitable $$ and $\beta$. As a main application of this construction, we prove that the asymptotic behaviour of general solutions is represented by such special solutions. Very singular solutions are also constructed. Among other interesting qualitative properties of the equation we prove an Aleksandrov reflection...

The boundary layer equations for the non-Newtonian power law fluid are examined under the classical conditions of uniform flow past a semi infinite flat plate. We investigate the behavior of the similarity solution and employing the Crocco-like transformation we establish the power series representation of the solution near the plate.

We study the stability of self-similar solutions of the binormal flow, which is a model for the dynamics of vortex filaments in fluids and super-fluids. These particular solutions ${\chi }_a(t,x)$ form a family of evolving regular curves in ${ℝ}^3$ that develop a singularity in finite time, indexed by a parameter $a>0$. We consider curves that are small regular perturbations of ${\chi }_a(t_0,x)$ for a fixed time $t_0$. In particular, their curvature is not vanishing at infinity, so we are not in the context of known results of local existence...

We investigate the two-component Nernst-Planck-Debye system by a numerical study of self-similar solutions using the Runge-Kutta method of order four and comparing the results obtained with the solutions of a one-component system. Properties of the solutions indicated by numerical simulations are proved and an existence result is established based on comparison arguments for singular ordinary differential equations.

We consider a reaction-diffusion-convection equation on the halfline (0,1) with the zero Dirichlet boundary condition at $x=0$. We find a positive selfsimilar solution $u$ which blows up in a finite time $T$ at $x=0$ while $u(x,T)$ remains bounded for $x>0$.

This article investigates the long-time behaviour of parabolic scalar conservation laws of the type ${\partial }_{t}u+{div}_{y}A(y,u)-{\Delta }_{y}u=0$, where $y\in {ℝ}^N$ and the flux $A$ is periodic in $y$. More specifically, we consider the case when the initial data is an $L^1$ disturbance of a stationary periodic solution. We show, under polynomial growth assumptions on the flux, that the difference between u and the stationary solution behaves in $L^1$ norm like a self-similar profile for large times. The proof uses a time and space change of variables which is...

This note summarizes the results obtained in [30]. We exhibit stable finite time blow up regimes for the energy critical co-rotational Wave Map with the ${𝕊}^2$ target in all homotopy classes and for the equivariant critical $SO\left(4\right)$ Yang-Mills problem. We derive sharp asymptotics on the dynamics at blow up time and prove quantization of the energy focused at the singularity.