Two-dimensional multisolitons and azimuthons in Bose-Einstein condensates with attraction

We present spatially localized nonrotating and rotating (azimuthon) multisolitons in the two-dimensional (2D) ("pancake-shaped configuration") Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) with attractive interaction. By means of a linear stability analysis, we investigate the stability of these structures and show that rotating dipole solitons are stable provided that the number of atoms is small enough. The results were confirmed by direct numerical simulations of the 2D Gross-Pitaevskii equation.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure

Use of mathematical modeling to study pressure regimes in normal and Fontan blood flow circulations

We develop two mathematical lumped parameter models for blood pressure distribution in the Fontan blood flow circulation: an ODE based spatially homogeneous model and a PDE based spatially inhomogeneous model. We present numerical simulations of the cardiac pressure-volume cycle and study the effect of pulmonary resistance on cardiac output. We analyze solutions of two initial-boundary value problems for a non-linear parabolic partial differential equation (PDE models) with switching in the time dynamic boundary conditions which model blood pressure distribution in the cardiovascular system with and without Fontan surgery. We also obtain necessary conditions for parameter values of the PDE models for existence and uniqueness of non-negative bounded periodic solutions.Comment: 32 pages, 6 figures, 1 tabl

On the nature of ill-posedness of the forward-backward heat equation

We study the Cauchy problem with periodic initial data for the forward-backward heat equation defined by the J-self-adjoint linear operator L depending on a small parameter. The problem has been originated from the lubrication approximation of a viscous fluid film on the inner surface of the rotating cylinder. For a certain range of the parameter we rigorously prove the conjecture, based on the numerical evidence, that the set of eigenvectors of the operator $L$ does not form a Riesz basis in \L^2 (-\pi,\pi). Our method can be applied to a wide range of the evolutional problems given by $PT-$symmetric operators.Comment: 21 pages; Remark 5.2 added, acknowledgements added, several typos fixe