Finite time blow-up for radially symmetric solutions to a critical quasilinear Smoluchowski-Poisson system

Finite time blow-up is shown to occur for radially symmetric solutions to a critical quasilinear Smoluchowski-Poisson system provided that the mass of the initial condition exceeds an explicit threshold. In the supercritical case, blow-up is shown to take place for any positive mass. The proof relies on a novel identity of virial type

Asymptotic behavior for a viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equation with critical exponent

The large time behavior of non-negative solutions to the viscous Hamilton-Jacobi equation $u_t - \Delta u + |\nabla u|^q = 0$ in the whole space $R^N$ is investigated for the critical exponent $q = (N+2)/(N+1)$. Convergence towards a rescaled self-similar solution of the linear heat equation is shown, the rescaling factor being $(\log(t))^{-(N+1)}$. The proof relies on the construction of a one-dimensional invariant manifold for a suitable truncation of the equation written in self-similar variables.Comment: 17 pages, no figur

The parabolic-parabolic Keller-Segel system with critical diffusion as a gradient flow in \RR^d, d≥3d \ge 3

It is known that, for the parabolic-elliptic Keller-Segel system with critical porous-medium diffusion in dimension \RR^d, $d \ge 3$ (also referred to as the quasilinear Smoluchowski-Poisson equation), there is a critical value of the chemotactic sensitivity (measuring in some sense the strength of the drift term) above which there are solutions blowing up in finite time and below which all solutions are global in time. This global existence result is shown to remain true for the parabolic-parabolic Keller-Segel system with critical porous-medium type diffusion in dimension \RR^d, $d \ge 3$, when the chemotactic sensitivity is below the same critical value. The solution is constructed by using a minimising scheme involving the Kantorovich-Wasserstein metric for the first component and the $L^2$-norm for the second component. The cornerstone of the proof is the derivation of additional estimates which relies on a generalisation to a non-monotone functional of a method due to Matthes, McCann, & Savar\'e (2009)

On an age and spatially structured population model for Proteus Mirabilis swarm-colony development

Proteus mirabilis are bacteria that make strikingly regular spatial-temporal patterns on agar surfaces. In this paper we investigate a mathematical model that has been shown to display these structures when solved numerically. The model consists of an ordinary differential equation coupled with a partial differential equation involving a first-order hyperbolic aging term together with nonlinear degenerate diffusion. The system is shown to admit global weak solutions

Weak solutions to the continuous coagulation equation with multiple fragmentation

The existence of weak solutions to the continuous coagulation equation with multiple fragmentation is shown for a class of unbounded coagulation and fragmentation kernels, the fragmentation kernel having possibly a singularity at the origin. This result extends previous ones where either boundedness of the coagulation kernel or no singularity at the origin for the fragmentation kernel were assumed

Singular behaviour of finite approximations to the addition model

Instantaneous gelation in the addition model with superlinear rate coefficients is investigated. The conjectured post-gelation solution is shown to arise naturally as the limit of solutions to some finite approximations as the number of equations grows to infinity. Non-existence of continuous solutions to the addition model is also established in that case