2006, Zelik, Sergey, Mielke, Alexander

We study semilinear parabolic systems on the full space Rn that admit a family of exponentially decaying pulse-like steady states obtained via translations. The multi-pulse solutions under consideration look like the sum of infinitely many such pulses which are well separated. We prove a global center-manifold reduction theorem for the temporal evolution of such multi-pulse solutions and show that the dynamics of these solutions can be described by an infinite systems of ODEs for the positions of the pulses. As an application of the developed theory, we verify the existence of Sinai-Bunimovich space-time chaos in 1D space-time periodically forced Swift-Hohenberg equation.

2014, Soave, Nicola, Valdinoci, Enrico

We consider a fractional elliptic equation in an unbounded set with both Dirichlet and fractional normal derivative datum prescribed. We prove that the domain and the solution are necessarily radially symmetric. The extension of the result in bounded non-convex regions is also studied, as well as the radial symmetry of the solution when the set is a priori supposed to be rotationally symmetric.

2014, Hömberg, Dietmar, Lu, Shuai, Yamamoto, Masahiro

We consider an inverse problem arising in laser-induced thermotherapy, a minimally invasive method for cancer treatment, in which cancer tissues is destroyed by coagulation. For the dosage planning quantitatively reliable numerical simulation are indispensable. To this end the identification of the thermal growth kinetics of the coagulated zone is of crucial importance. Mathematically, this problem is a nonlinear and nonlocal parabolic heat source inverse problem. We show in this paper that the temperature dependent thermal growth parameter can be identified uniquely from a one-point measurement.