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In this paper, we consider the global well-posedness of solutions for the initial-boundary value problems of the epitaxy growth model. We first construct the local smooth solution, then by combining some a priori estimates, continuity argument, the local smooth solutions are extended step by step to all t > 0, provided that the initial datums sufficiently small and the smooth nonlinear functions satisfy certain local growth conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Richards equation is a degenerate nonlinear PDE that models a flow through saturated/unsaturated porous media. Research on its numerical methods has been conducted in many fields. Implicit schemes based on a backward Euler format are widely used in calculating it. However, it is difficult to obtain stability with a numerical scheme because of the strong nonlinearity and degeneracy. In this paper, we establish a linearized semi-implicit finite difference scheme that is faster than backward Euler implicit schemes. We analyze the stability of this scheme by adding a small positive perturbation ϵ to the coefficient function of the Richards equation. Moreover, we show that there is a linear relationship between the discretization error in the L ∞ -norm and ϵ . Numerical experiments are carried out to verify our main results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]