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Abstract: We discuss the dispersal of a chemical, emitted from a point source, into a reacting medium. The diffusion and reaction are such that a front emerges, so that at all times the chemical remains confined to a bounded domain around the source. We focus on the final stationary state which is a non-standard Stefan-type boundary value problem for an Emden–Fowler equation. We prove its existence and uniqueness and obtain, analytically as well as numerically, bounds for the location of the front and for the concentration profile. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

We study well-posedness of initial value problems for a class of singular quasilinear parabolic equations in one space dimension. Simple conditions for well-posedness in the space of bounded nonnegative solutions are given, which involve boundedness of solutions of some related linear stationary problems. By a suitable change of unknown, the above results can be applied to classical initial-boundary value problems for parabolic equations with singular coefficients, as the heat equation with inverse square potential. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: Existence and uniqueness results for initial value problem with a given growth condition (upper bound) on the initial datum for the so-called generalized deterministic KPZ (Kardar–Parisi–Zhang) equation are obtained. Self-similar blow-up solutions are investigated also. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

With q a positive real number, the nonlinear partial differential equation in the title of the paper arises in the study of the growth of surfaces. In that context it is known as the generalized deterministic KPZ equation. The paper is concerned with the initial-value problem for the equation under the assumption that the initial-data function is bounded and continuous. Results on the existence, uniqueness, and regularity of solutions are obtained. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]