Two models of reaction-diffusion are presented: a non-Fickian diffusion model described by a system of a parabolic PDE and a first order ODE, further, porosity-mineralogy changes in porous medium which is modelled by a system consisting of an ODE, a parabolic and an elliptic equation. Existence of weak solutions is shown by the Schauder fixed point theorem combined with the theory of monotone type operators.
This work is concerned with discrete-time Markov stopping games with two players. At each decision time player II can stop the game paying a terminal reward to player I, or can let the system to continue its evolution. In this latter case player I applies an action affecting the transitions and entitling him to receive a running reward from player II. It is supposed that player I has a no-null and constant risk-sensitivity coefficient, and that player II tries to minimize the utility of player I. The performance of a pair of decision strategies is measured by the risk-sensitive (expected) total reward of player I and, besides mild continuity-compactness conditions, the main structural assumption on the model is the existence of an absorbing state which is accessible from any starting point. In this context, it is shown that the value function of the game is characterized by an equilibrium equation, and the existence of a Nash equilibrium is established.
We consider second order quasilinear evolution equations where also the main part contains functional dependence on the unknown function. First, existence of solutions in (0, T ) is proved and examples satisfying the assumptions of the existence theorem are formulated. Then a uniqueness theorem is proved. Finally, existence and some qualitative properties of the solutions in (0,∞) (boundedness and stabilization as t → ∞) are shown.