Formation of hydrates is observed during drilling and construction of wells, more frequently in gas wells located offshore (deep sea water). Hydrates of natural gas can clog chokes and kill lines, and obstruct the opening or closure of blow out preventer (BOP), seal well override valve and immobilize well string. Because of that, this work was mainly focused in the selection and adaptation of a...

— The objective of this mini-course is to take a look at a standard semilinear partial differential equation −∆u = λf(u) on which we show the use of some basic tools in the study of elliptic equation. We will mention the maximum principle, barrier method, blow-up analysis, regularity and boot-strap argument, stability, localization and quantification of singularities, Pohozaev identities, movin...

In this note we construct a non-singular algebraic variety VG encoding the incidence information of a simple graph G, by a sequence of blow-ups of a projective space along suitable linear subspaces. The aim is to translate into the geometry of VG the combinatorial information about G; we nd that this can be done with surprising ease and e ciency. For example, we prove that the chromatic polynom...

The paper looks at some of the techniques (separation of variables, Fourier series, Carleman estimates) used to obtain observability and nullcontrollability results to determine qualitatively the asymptotic behavior of the estimates obtained with respect to relevant parameters. We are particularly concerned with blow-up as the control time becomes short (T → 0).

The Network of Noisy Leaky Integrate and Fire (NNLIF) model describes the behavior of a neural network at mesoscopic level. It is one of the simplest self-contained mean-field models considered for that purpose. Even so, to study the mathematical properties of the model some simplifications were necessary [4, 5, 6], which disregard crucial phenomena. In this work we deal with the general NNLIF ...