Abstract. The paper focuses on a model describing the spreading of an insoluble surfactant on a thin viscous film with capillary effects taken into account. The governing equation for the film height is degenerate parabolic of fourth order and coupled to a second order parabolic equation for the surfactant concentration. It is shown that nonnegative weak solutions exist under natural assumption...

Abstract — A semilinear second-order singularly perturbed parabolic equation in one space dimension is considered. For this equation, we give computable a posteriori error estimates in the maximum norm for a difference scheme that uses Backward-Euler in time and central differencing in space. Sharp L1-norm bounds for the Green’s function of the parabolic operator and its derivatives are derived...

In this paper, we study the existence and uniqueness of a degenerate parabolic equation, with nonhomogeneous boundary conditions, coming from the linearization of the Crocco equation [12]. The Crocco equation is a nonlinear degenerate parabolic equation obtained from the Prandtl equations with the so-called Crocco transformation. The linearized Crocco equation plays a major role in stabilizatio...

This work introduces a new operator-splitting method for solving the two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) parabolic equations. The aim is to reduce the computational complexity without loss of accuracy. Firstly, we split the 2D and 3D parabolic equations into a sequence of one-dimensional (1D) parabolic equations respectively, then we solve each 1D parabolic equation by using finite ...

A priori estimates for finite-difference approximations for the first and second-order derivatives are obtained for solutions of parabolic equations described in the title.

We find normal forms for parabolic Monge-Ampère equations. Of these, the most general one holds for any equation admitting a complete integral. Moreover, we explicitly give the determining equation for such integrals; restricted to the analytic case, this equation is shown to have solutions. The other normal forms exhaust the different classes of parabolic Monge-Ampère equations with symmetry p...

A new Monte-Carlo method for solving linear parabolic partial differential equations is presented. Since, in this new scheme, the particles are followed backward in time, it provides great flexibility in choosing critical points in phase-space at which to concentrate the launching of particles and thereby minimizing the statistical noise of the sought solution. The trajectory of a particle, Xi(...

In this article, we study the long time behavior of a phase-field parabolichyperbolic system arising from the phase-field theory of phase transitions. This system consists of a parabolic equation governing the (relative) temperature which is nonlinearly coupled with a weakly damped semilinear hyperbolic equation ruling the evolution of the order parameter. The latter is a singular perturbation ...

We consider the homogenization of parabolic equations with large spatiallydependent potentials modeled as Gaussian random fields. We derive the homogenized equations in the limit of vanishing correlation length of the random potential. We characterize the leading effect in the random fluctuations and show that their spatial moments converge in law to Gaussian random variables. Both results hold...

Approximation theorems, analogous to known results for linear elliptic equations, are obtained for solutions of the heat equation. Via the Cole-Hopf transformation, this gives rise to approximation theorems for a nonlinear parabolic equation, Burgers’ equation.