Blow-up for Higher-Order Parabolic, Hyperbolic, Dispersion and Schrodinger Equations

Victor A. Galaktionov, Enzo L. Mitidieri, Stanislav I. Pohozaev

• Introduction. Complicated Self-Similar Blow-Up, Compacton, and Standing Wave Patterns for Four Nonlinear PDEs: A Unified Variational Approach to Elliptic Equations. Classification of Global Sign-Changing Solutions of Semilinear Heat Equations in the Subcritical Fujita Range: Second- and Higher-Order Diffusion. Global and Blow-Up Solutions for Kuramoto–Sivashinsky, Navier–Stokes, and Burnett Equations. Regional, Single-Point, and Global Blow-Up for a Fourth-Order Porous Medium-Type Equation with Source. Semilinear Fourth-Order Hyperbolic Equation: Two Types of Blow-Up Patterns. Quasilinear Fourth-Order Hyperbolic Boussinesq Equation: Shock, Rarefaction, and Fundamental Solutions. Blow-Up and Global Solutions for Korteweg–de Vries-Type Equations. Higher-Order Nonlinear Dispersion PDEs: Shock, Rarefaction, and Blow-Up Waves. Higher-Order Schrödinger Equations: From "Blow-Up" Zero Structures to Quasilinear Operators. References.

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