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The temperature-dependent incompressible nematic liquid crystal flows in a bounded domain Ω ⊂ R N ( N = 2 , 3 ) are studied in this paper. Following Danchin's method in [7] , we use a localization argument to recover the maximal regularity of Stokes equation with variable viscosity, by which we first prove the local existence of a unique strong solution, then extend it to a global one provided that the initial data is a sufficiently small perturbation around the trivial equilibrium state. This paper also generalizes Hu–Wang's result in [21] to the non-isothermal case. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we find that the unbounded spaces Y σ ( R N ) ( 0 < σ < 2 m − 1 ) can provide the work spaces where complicated asymptotic behavior appears in the solutions of the Cauchy problem of the porous medium equation. To overcome the difficulties caused by the nonlinearity of the equation and the unbounded solutions, we establish the propagation estimates, the growth estimates and the weighted L 1 – L ∞ estimates for the solutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: We study a large time behavior of a solution to the initial boundary value problem for an isentropic and compressible viscous fluid in a one-dimensional half space. The unique existence and the asymptotic stability of a stationary solution are proved by S. Kawashima, S. Nishibata and P. Zhu for an outflow problem where the fluid blows out through the boundary. The main concern of the present paper is to investigate a convergence rate of a solution toward the stationary solution. For the supersonic flow at spatial infinity, we obtain an algebraic or an exponential decay rate. Precisely, if an initial perturbation decays with the algebraic or the exponential rate in the spatial asymptotic point, the solution converges to the corresponding stationary solution with the same rate in time as time tends to infinity. An algebraic convergence rate is also obtained for the transonic flow. These results are proved by the weighted energy method. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: The semilinear parabolic system that describes the evolution of the gene frequencies in the diffusion approximation for migration and selection at a multiallelic locus without dominance is investigated. The population occupies a finite habitat of arbitrary dimensionality and shape (i.e., a bounded, open domain in ). The selection coefficients depend on position; the drift and diffusion coefficients may depend on position. The primary focus of this paper is the dependence of the evolution of the gene frequencies on λ, the strength of selection relative to that of migration. It is proved that if migration is sufficiently strong (i.e., λ is sufficiently small) and the migration operator is in divergence form, then the allele with the greatest spatially averaged selection coefficient is ultimately fixed. The stability of each vertex (i.e., an equilibrium with exactly one allele present) is completely specified. The stability of each edge equilibrium (i.e., one with exactly two alleles present) is fully described when either (i) migration is sufficiently weak (i.e., λ is sufficiently large) or (ii) the equilibrium has just appeared as λ increases. The existence of unexpected, complex phenomena is established: even if there are only three alleles and migration is homogeneous and isotropic (corresponding to the Laplacian), (i) as λ increases, arbitrarily many changes of stability of the edge equilibria and corresponding appearance of an internal equilibrium can occur and (ii) the conditions for protection or loss of an allele can both depend nonmonotonically on λ. Neither of these phenomena can occur in the diallelic case. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: In this paper, we study the local existence and uniqueness of classical solutions to a wide class of systems of chemotaxis equations. These systems are essentially quasi-linear strongly coupled partial differential equations. We also study the maximal interval of existence in time of solutions. The results are illustrated in application to a number of partial differential equation models arising in biology. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]