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Tej-Eddine Ghoul

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arXiv2026

Local separation profiles for the stationary Prandtl system

We construct solutions to the two-dimensional stationary Prandtl system under a constant adverse pressure gradient exhibiting a family of distinct separation laws. More precisely, for every integer $\ell\ge1$, we construct smooth initial data for which separation occurs at a finite location $x=x^\ast$, with \[ \partial_y u(x,0) =\mathbf C_\ell(x^\ast-x)^{\ell/2}\bigl(1+o(1)\bigr), \qquad x\uparrow x^\ast, \] where $\mathbf C_\ell>0$ depends on the initial data. We determine the local asymptotic structure of the solution near separation through matched inner and outer expansions based on linearization around the ground state in von Mises variables. This description addresses Open Problem~5 posed by Oleinik and Samokhin~\cite{OleinikSamok-book-99}. We also prove that the square-root separation regime, corresponding to $\ell=1$, is dynamically stable under small admissible perturbations of the initial data in a suitable topology.

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arXiv2026

Blow-Up Dynamics for the $L^2$ critical case of the $2$D Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation

We study blow-up dynamics for the $L^2$-critical cubic Zakharov--Kuznetsov equation in two dimensions, \[ \partial_tu+\partial_{x_1}(Δu+u^3)=0 \qquad\text{on }\mathbb R^2. \] For a class of localized $H^1$ perturbations of the ground state $Q$, we establish a trichotomy near the soliton manifold: exit from a small $L^2$-tube, global asymptotic stability, or finite-time blow-up. In the stable blow-up regime, the solution concentrates a single bubble and \[ λ(t)\sim \ell_0(T-t)^{1/(3-c)}, \] where $\ell_0>0$ depends on the initial datum and $c\in(1,2)$ is an explicit constant determined by the transverse tail of the first-order approximate profile. Consequently, \[ \|\nabla u(t)\|_{L^2} \sim \frac{\|\nabla Q\|_{L^2}} {\ell_0(T-t)^{1/(3-c)}}. \] After subtraction of the concentrating soliton, the radiation converges strongly in $L^p(\mathbb R^2)$ for every $2\leq p<\infty$ to a common nonzero profile $u^*$, while \[ u^*\notin H^s(\mathbb R^2) \qquad\text{for every }s\geq\frac c2. \] The stable blow-up branch is open in the relative $H^1$ topology of the localized class. Finally, every non-soliton datum in this class with non-positive energy blows up in finite time. Interval-arithmetic computer-assisted proofs certify the numerical inputs to the virial coercivity argument. They also yield a rigorous enclosure of $c$, justifying the polynomial moment of order $21$ imposed on the initial data.

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arXiv2026

Singularity formed by the collision of two collapsing solitons in interaction for the 2D Keller-Segel system

It is well-known that the two-dimensional parabolic-elliptic Keller-Segel system admits finite-time blowup solutions, which is the case if the initial density has total mass greater than $8π$. Several constructive examples of such solutions have been given, where for all of them a perturbed stationary state undergoes scale instability and collapses at a point, resulting in an $8π$-mass concentration. It was conjectured that singular solutions concentrating more than one soliton simultaneously could exist. We construct rigorously such a new blowup mechanism, where two stationary states are simultaneously collapsing and colliding, resulting in a $16π$-mass concentration at a single blowup point, and with a new blowup rate which corresponds to the formal prediction by Seki, Sugiyama and Velázquez. We develop, for the first time, a robust framework to rigorously construct blowup solutions that simultaneously involve the non-radial collision and concentration of several solitons, which we expect to have applications to other evolution problems.

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arXiv2024

Nonlinear enhanced dissipation in viscous Burgers type equations

We construct a class of infinite mass functions for which solutions of the viscous Burgers equation decay at a better rate than solution of the heat equation for initial data in this class. In other words, we show an enhanced dissipation coming from a nonlinear transport term. We compute the asymptotic profile in this class for both equations. For the viscous Burgers equation, the main novelty is the construction and description of a time dependent profile with a boundary layer, which enhanced the dissipation. This profile will be stable up to a computable nonlinear correction depending on the perturbation. We also extend our results to other convection-diffusion equations.

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arXiv2024

Nonlinear enhanced dissipation in viscous Burgers type equations II

In this follow up paper, we focus on the viscous Burgers equation. There, using the Hopf-Cole transformation, we compute the long time behavior of solutions for some classes of infinite mass initial datas. We show that an enhanced dissipation effect occurs generically, that is the decay rate in time is better than if we considered instead the heat equations for the same inital value. We also show the existence of a kind of global attractor per class.

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arXiv2022

Localisation of perturbations of a constant state in a traffic flow model

We consider, in the Aw-Rascle-Zhang traffic flow model, the problem of the asymptotic stability of constant flows. By using a perturbative approach, we show the stability in a larger space of perturbation than previous results. Furthermore, we are able to compute where the perturbation is mainly localised in space for a given time, based on the localisation of the perturbation initially. These new ideas can be applied to various other models of hyperbolic conservation laws with relaxations.

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arXiv2022

On singularity formation for the two dimensional unsteady Prandtl system around the axis

We consider the two dimensional unsteady Prandtl system. For a special class of outer Euler flows and solutions of the Prandtl system, the trace of the tangential derivative of the tangential velocity along the transversal axis solves a closed one dimensional equation. First, we give a precise description of singular solutions for this reduced problem. A stable blow-up pattern is found, in which the blow-up point is ejected to infinity in finite time, and the solutions form a plateau with growing length. Second, in the case where, for a general analytic solution, this trace of the derivative on the axis follows the stable blow-up pattern, we show persistence of analyticity around the axis up to the blow-up time, and establish a universal lower bound of $(T-t)^{7/4}$ for its radius of analyticity.

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arXiv2022

Collapsing-ring blowup solutions for the Keller-Segel system in three dimensions and higher

We consider the parabolic-elliptic Keller-Segel system in three dimensions and higher, corresponding to the mass supercritical case. We construct rigorously a solution which blows up in finite time by having its mass concentrating near a ring that shrinks to a point. In particular, the singularity is of type II, non self-similar. We show the stability of this dynamics among spherically symmetric solutions. In renormalised variables, the solution ressembles a traveling wave imploding at the origin, and this, to our knowledge, is the first stability result for such phenomenon for an evolution PDE. We develop a framework to handle the interactions between the two blowup zones contributing to the mechanism: a thin inner zone around the ring where viscosity effects occur, and an outer zone where the evolution is mostly inviscid.

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arXiv2021

On the effect of rotation on the life-span of analytic solutions to the $3D$ inviscid primitive equations

We study the effect of the rotation on the life-span of solutions to the $3D$ hydrostatic Euler equations with rotation and the inviscid Primitive equations (PEs) on the torus. The space of analytic functions appears to be the natural space to study the initial value problem for the inviscid PEs with general initial data, as they have been recently shown to exhibit Kelvin-Helmholtz type instability. First, for a short interval of time that is independent of the rate of rotation $|Ω|$, we establish the local well-posedness of the inviscid PEs in the space of analytic functions. In addition, thanks to a fine analysis of the barotropic and baroclinic modes decomposition, we establish two results about the long time existence of solutions. (i) Independently of $|Ω|$, we show that the life-span of the solution tends to infinity as the analytic norm of the initial baroclinic mode goes to zero. Moreover, we show in this case that the solution of the $3D$ inviscid PEs converges to the solution of the limit system, which is governed by the $2D$ Euler equations. (ii) We show that the life-span of the solution can be prolonged unboundedly with $|Ω|\rightarrow \infty$, which is the main result of this paper. This is established for "well-prepared" initial data, namely, when only the Sobolev norm (but not the analytic norm) of the baroclinic mode is small enough, depending on $|Ω|$. Furthermore, for large $|Ω|$ and "well-prepared" initial data, we show that the solution to the $3D$ inviscid PEs is approximated by the solution to a simple limit resonant system with the same initial data.

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arXiv2021

Singularities and unsteady separation for the inviscid two-dimensional Prandtl's system

We consider the inviscid unsteady Prandtl system in two dimensions, motivated by the fact that it should model to leading order separation and singularity formation for the original viscous system. We give a sharp expression for the maximal time of existence of regular solutions, showing that singularities only happen at the boundary or on the set of zero vorticity, and that they correspond to boundary layer separation. We then exhibit new Lagrangian formulae for backward self-similar profiles, and study them also with a different approach that was initiated by Elliott-Smith-Cowley and Cassel-Smith-Walker. One particular profile is at the heart of the so-called Van-Dommelen and Shen singularity, and we prove its generic appearance (that is, for an open and dense set of blow-up solutions) for any prescribed Eulerian outer flow. We comment on the connexion between these results and the full viscous Prandtl system. This paper combines ideas for transport equations, such as Lagrangian coordinates and incompressibility, and for singularity formation, such as self-similarity and renormalisation, in a novel manner, and designs a new way to study singularities for quasilinear transport equations.

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arXiv2021

Refined description and stability for singular solutions of the 2D Keller-Segel system

We construct solutions to the two dimensional parabolic-elliptic Keller-Segel model for chemotaxis that blow up in finite time $T$. The solution is decomposed as the sum of a stationary state concentrated at scale $λ$ and of a perturbation. We rely on a detailed spectral analysis for the linearized dynamics in the parabolic neighbourhood of the singularity performed by the authors, providing a refined expansion of the perturbation. Our main result is the construction of a stable dynamics in the full nonradial setting for which the stationary state collapses with the universal law $λ\sim 2e^{-\frac{2+γ}{2}}\sqrt{T-t}e^{-\sqrt{\frac{|\ln (T-t)|}{2}}}$ where $γ$ is the Euler constant. This improves on the earlier result by Raphael and Schweyer 2014 and gives a new robust approach to so-called type II singularities for critical parabolic problems. A by-product of the spectral analysis we developed is the existence of unstable blowup dynamics with speed $λ_\ell \sim C_0(T-t)^{\frac{\ell}{2}} |\ln(T-t)|^{-\frac{\ell}{2(\ell - 1)}}$ for $\ell \geq 2$ integer.

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arXiv2020

Singularity formation for Burgers equation with transverse viscosity

We consider Burgers equation with transverse viscosity $$\partial_tu+u\partial_xu-\partial_{yy}u=0, \ \ (x,y)\in \mathbb R^2, \ \ u:[0,T)\times \mathbb R^2\rightarrow \mathbb R.$$ We construct and describe precisely a family of solutions which become singular in finite time by having their gradient becoming unbounded. To leading order, the solution is given by a backward self-similar solution of Burgers equation along the $x$ variable, whose scaling parameters evolve according to parabolic equations along the $y$ variable, one of them being the quadratic semi-linear heat equation. We develop a new framework adapted to this mixed hyperbolic/parabolic blow-up problem, revisit the construction of flat blow-up profiles for the semi-linear heat equation, and the self-similarity in the shocks of Burgers equation.

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arXiv2020

Spectral analysis for singularity formation of the two dimensional Keller-Segel system

We analyse an operator arising in the description of singular solutions to the two-dimensional Keller-Segel problem. It corresponds to the linearised operator in parabolic self-similar variables, close to a concentrated stationary state. This is a two-scale problem, with a vanishing thin transition zone near the origin. Via rigorous matched asymptotic expansions, we describe the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions precisely. We also show a stability result with respect to suitable perturbations, as well as a coercivity estimate for the non-radial part. These results are used as key arguments in a new rigorous proof of the existence and refined description of singular solutions for the Keller-Segel problem by the authors. The present paper extends the result by Dejak, Lushnikov, Yu, Ovchinnikov and Sigal [Physica D, 2012]. Two major difficulties arise in the analysis: this is a singular limit problem, and a degeneracy causes corrections not being polynomial but logarithmic with respect to the main parameter.

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arXiv2019

On the Stability of Self-similar Blow-up for $C^{1,α}$ Solutions to the Incompressible Euler Equations on $\mathbb{R}^3$

We study the stability of recently constructed self-similar blow-up solutions to the incompressible Euler equation. A consequence of our work is the existence of finite-energy $C^{1,α}$ solutions that become singular in finite time in a locally self-similar manner. As a corollary, we also observe that the Beale-Kato-Majda criterion cannot be improved in the class of $C^{1,α}$ solutions.

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arXiv2018

Construction and Stability of type I blowup solutions for non-variational semilinear parabolic systems

We consider in this note the semilinear heat system $$\partial_t u = Δu + f(v), \quad \partial_t v = μΔv + g(u), \quad μ> 0,$$ where the nonlinearity has no gradient structure taking of the particular form $$f(v) = v|v|^{p-1} \quad \text{and}\quad g(u) = u|u|^{q-1} \quad \text{with} \quad p, q > 1, $$ or $$f(v) = e^{pv}\quad \text{and} \quad g(u) = e^{qu} \quad \text{with} \quad p,q > 0.$$ We exhibit type I blowup solutions for this system and give a precise description of its blowup profiles. The method relies on two-step procedure: the reduction of the problem to a finite dimensional one via a spectral analysis, then solving the finite dimensional problem by a classical topological argument based on index theory. As a consequence of our technique, the constructed solutions are stable under a small perturbation of initial data. The results and the main arguments presented in this note can be found in our papers [Ann. IHP 2018] and [JDEs 2018].

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arXiv2018

Construction of type II blowup solutions for the 1-corotational energy supercritical wave maps

We consider the energy supercritical wave maps from $\mathbb{R}^d$ into the $d$-sphere $\mathbb{S}^d$ with $d \geq 7$. Under an additional assumption of 1-corotational symmetry, the problem reduces to the one dimensional semilinear wave equation $$\partial_t^2 u = \partial^2_r u + \frac{(d-1)}{r}\partial_r u - \frac{(d-1)}{2r^2}\sin(2u).$$ We construct for this equation a family of $\mathcal{C}^{\infty}$ solutions which blow up in finite time via concentration of the universal profile $$u(r,t) \sim Q\left(\frac{r}{λ(t)}\right),$$ where $Q$ is the stationary solution of the equation and the speed is given by the quantized rates $$λ(t) \sim c_u(T-t)^\frac{\ell}γ, \quad \ell \in \mathbb{N}^*, \;\; \ell > γ= γ(d) \in (1,2].$$ The construction relies on two arguments: the reduction of the problem to a finite-dimensional one thanks to a robust universal energy method and modulation techniques developed by Merle, Raphaël and Rodnianski for the energy supercritical nonlinear Schrödinger equation, then we proceed by contradiction to solve the finite-dimensional problem and conclude using the Brouwer fixed point theorem.

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arXiv2018

Construction of type I blowup solutions for a higher order semilinear parabolic equation

We consider the higher-order semilinear parabolic equation $$ \partial_t u = -(-Δ)^{m} u + u|u|^{p-1}, $$ in the whole space $\mathbb{R}^N$, where $p > 1$ and $m \geq 1$ is an odd integer. We exhibit type I non self-similar blowup solutions for this equation and obtain a sharp description of its asymptotic behavior. The method of construction relies on the spectral analysis of a non self-adjoint linearized operator in an appropriate scaled variables setting. In view of known spectral and sectorial properties of the linearized operator obtained by [Galaktionov, rspa2011], we revisit the technique developed by [Merle-Zaag, duke1997] for the classical case $m = 1$, which consists in two steps: the reduction of the problem to a finite dimensional one, then solving the finite dimensional problem by a classical topological argument based on the index theory. Our analysis provides a rigorous justification of a formal result in [Galaktionov, rspa2011].

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