We are concerned with viscous profiles (travelling waves and steady solutions) for mixed hyperbolic-parabolic systems in one space variable. For a class of systems including the compressible Navier Stokes equation, these profiles satisfy a singular ordinary differential equation in the form (0.1) dU dt = 1 ζ(U) F (U). Here U takes values in R and F : R → R is a regular function. The real valued...

Our study of abstract quasi-linear parabolic problems in time-weighted Lp-spaces, begun in [17], is extended in this paper to include singular lower order terms, while keeping low initial regularity. The results are applied to reactiondiffusion problems, including Maxwell-Stefan diffusion, and to geometric evolution equations like the surface-diffusion flow or the Willmore flow. The method pres...

We present a generalization of the Kalman rank condition to the case of n×n linear parabolic systems with constant coefficients and diagonalizable diffusion matrix. To reach the result, we are led to prove a global Carleman estimate for the solutions of a scalar 2n−order parabolic equation and deduce from it an observability inequality for our adjoint system. AMS 2000 subject classification: 93...

Parabolic variational inequalities of Allen-Cahn and CahnHilliard type are solved using methods involving constrained optimization. Time discrete variants are formulated with the help of Lagrange multipliers for local and non-local equality and inequality constraints. Fully discrete problems resulting from finite element discretizations in space are solved with the help of a primal-dual active ...

In this paper we establish some exact controllability results for systems of two parabolic equations. In a first part, we prove the existence of insensitizing controls for the L norm of the gradient of solutions of linear heat equations. Then, in the worst situation where null controllability for a system of two parabolic equations can hold, we prove this result for some general couplings. MSC:...

We describe a novel discretisation method for numerically solving (systems of) semilinear parabolic equations on Euclidean spheres. The new approximation method is based upon a discretisation in space using spherical basis functions and can be of arbitrary order. This, together with the fact that the solutions of semilinear parabolic problems are known to be infinitely smooth, at least locally ...

Motivated by the study of conditional stability of traveling waves, we give an elementary H2 center stable manifold construction for quasilinear parabolic PDE, sidestepping apparently delicate regularity issues by the combination of a carefully chosen implicit fixed-point scheme and straightforward time-weighted Hs energy estimates. As an application, we show conditional stability of Laxor unde...

In this paper we introduce and explore conformal parabolic iterated function systems. We deene and study topological pressure, Perron-Frobenius type operators, semi-conformal and conformal measures and the Hausdorr dimension of the limit set. With every parabolic system we associate an innnite hyperbolic conformal iterated function system and we employ it to study geometric and dynamical featur...

Abstract. This paper studies the global regularity theory for degenerate nonlinear parabolic partial differential equations. Our objective is to show that weak solutions belong to a higher Sobolev space than assumed a priori if the complement of the domain satisfies a capacity density condition and if the boundary values are sufficiently smooth. Moreover, we derive integrability estimates for t...

We prove that the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation is locally controllable in 1D and in 2D with one boundary control. Our method consists in combining several general results in order to reduce the nullcontrollability of this nonlinear parabolic equation to the exact controllability of a linear beam or plate system. This improves known results on the controllability of Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equatio...