A blow-up mechanism for a chemotaxis model
We consider parabolic equations with nonlocal coefficients obtained from the Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equations with potentials. This class of equations includes the classical Debye system from electrochemistry as well as an evolution model of self-attracting clusters under friction and fluctuations. The local in time existence of solutions to these equations (with no-flux boundary conditions) and properties of stationary solutions are studied.
In this paper, a phase field system of Penrose–Fife type with non–conserved order parameter is considered. A class of time–discrete schemes for an initial–boundary value problem for this phase–field system is presented. In three space dimensions, convergence is proved and an error estimate linear with respect to the time–step size is derived.
The celebrated criterion of Petrowsky for the regularity of the latest boundary point, originally formulated for the heat equation, is extended to the so-called p-parabolic equation. A barrier is constructed by the aid of the Barenblatt solution.
We consider a parabolic equation which describes the gravitational interaction of particles. Existence of solutions and their convergence to stationary states are studied.
We study solutions to a nonlinear parabolic convection-diffusion equation on the half-line with the Neumann condition at x=0. The analysis is based on the properties of self-similar solutions to that problem.